Development land in Leicestershire: 375 brownfield sites
The 8 planning authorities in Leicestershire have published 375 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 332 hectares and an estimated 7,631 dwellings of capacity.
Rank these sites with constraints netted off →
Which councils hold the land
Every authority publishes its register separately, so these totals exist nowhere else. Click a council for its full register.
| Authority | Sites | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Charnwood | 115 | 145 | 3,424 |
| Leicester | 66 | 39 | 1,014 |
| Melton | 60 | 64 | 975 |
| North West Leicestershire | 41 | 32 | 624 |
| Harborough | 32 | 14 | 511 |
| Blaby | 29 | 19 | 578 |
| Oadby and Wigston | 22 | 3 | — |
| Hinckley and Bosworth | 10 | 16 | 505 |
The seven Leicestershire districts plus the Leicester unitary.
Largest sites in Leicestershire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Thurmaston | Charnwood | 19.7 | 120 |
| 1444, 1446 and 1448 Melton Road, Queniborough | Charnwood | 11.5 | 125 |
| Land fronting Ashby Road and Ingleberry Road Shepshed | Charnwood | 11.0 | 200 |
| Land between A6 and River Soar south of Wyevale Garden Centre Rothley | Charnwood | 9.8 | 117 |
| Land at Snow Hill; Melton Mowbray | Melton | 9.6 | 240 |
| Hinckley Sewage Treatment Site, Burbage | Hinckley and Bosworth | 9.2 | 259 |
| Church Hill Road Thurmaston | Charnwood | 7.9 | 148 |
| War Memorial Hospital; Ankle Hill; Melton Mowbray | Melton | 6.0 | — |
| Northgate Street/Soar Lane | Leicester | 5.7 | — |
| Site of former King Edward VII School site, Burton Road, Melton Mowbray | Melton | 5.7 | 137 |
| Former Redland Roofing Systems Site - Ingelberry Road/Ashby Road, Shepshed | Charnwood | 5.6 | 105 |
| Site of former King Edward VII School site and playing fields; Burton Road; Melt | Melton | 5.5 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 13 further entries repeat the area of a site already listed (councils often record a whole site's area against each phase), so that land is counted once. 120 of the 375 sites (32%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 255 that do — the real total is higher.
Before you get attached to one
A register entry is not planning permission and not an offer to sell. It records that the council thinks housing could work there. Whether the owner agrees is a separate conversation, and whether a scheme gets approved is a third.
- Net off the constraints first. Green belt, Flood Zone 3 and listed buildings kill more register sites than anything else.
- The dwelling figure is the council’s opinion. 7,631 across Leicestershire is a planning-policy estimate, not a set of designs.
- Price it off recorded sales. HM Land Registry Price Paid tells you what actually sold; work the residual land value from there.
- England has no zoning. The Local Plan and the Use Classes Order decide what is achievable, application by application.
How to read a register entry properly → · Five ways to find UK development land →
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