Development land in Lincolnshire: 388 brownfield sites
The 9 planning authorities in Lincolnshire have published 388 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 368 hectares and an estimated 8,496 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Lindsey | 89 | 68 | 2,189 |
| North Lincolnshire | 80 | 97 | — |
| North East Lincolnshire | 69 | 45 | 2,292 |
| Boston | 46 | 36 | 823 |
| South Holland | 42 | 27 | 665 |
| East Lindsey | 29 | 27 | 624 |
| Lincoln | 14 | 21 | 938 |
| South Kesteven | 12 | 22 | 440 |
| North Kesteven | 7 | 25 | 525 |
The seven Lincolnshire districts plus the two northern unitaries.
Largest sites in Lincolnshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land at Former RAF, Kirton in Lindsey | North Lincolnshire | 14.2 | — |
| Land at Church Square, Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire | 12.1 | — |
| Former Western School site, Cambridge Road, Grimsby | North East Lincolnshire | 10.4 | 390 |
| Land at the Glebe, Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire | 10.2 | — |
| Land off Moor Lane, Swinderby | North Kesteven | 8.3 | 120 |
| REDUNDANT RAF HANGERS, MANBY PARK, MANBY | East Lindsey | 7.5 | 87 |
| Land at St John's Hospital, Bracebridge Heath | North Kesteven | 6.9 | 139 |
| The Old Quarry, Station Road | South Kesteven | 6.9 | 124 |
| Former South Leys School, Enderby Road, Scunthorpe | North Lincolnshire | 6.5 | — |
| Gateway Riverside Housing Zone, Gainsborough | West Lindsey | 6.1 | — |
| Magnadata International, Horncastle Road, Boston | Boston | 5.8 | 173 |
| Former Cegb power station, Spa Rd | Lincoln | 5.7 | 300 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 7 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. 130 of the 388 sites (34%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 258 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. 8,496 across Lincolnshire 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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