Development land in Norfolk: 488 brownfield sites
The 7 planning authorities in Norfolk have published 488 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 507 hectares and an estimated 12,592 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norwich | 154 | 135 | 7,663 |
| Great Yarmouth | 103 | 90 | 2,742 |
| King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 89 | 108 | 1,777 |
| South Norfolk | 78 | 23 | — |
| Breckland | 25 | 36 | 267 |
| Broadland | 23 | 105 | — |
| North Norfolk | 16 | 10 | 143 |
The seven Norfolk districts.
Largest sites in Norfolk
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Royal Norwich Golf Club, Drayton High Rd, Hellesdon | Broadland | 45.8 | — |
| The Nar Ouse Regeneration Area (NORA), Wisbech Road, King's Lynn | King's Lynn and West Norfolk | 44.6 | 50 |
| Great Yarmouth Waterfront | Great Yarmouth | 38.6 | 246 |
| Carrow Works | Norwich | 20.0 | 1200 |
| Deal Ground, Bracondale, Norwich | Norwich | 16.2 | — |
| Pinebanks, 9 Yarmouth Rd, Thorpe St Andrew | Broadland | 16.1 | — |
| Land at Hellesdon Hospital, Drayton High Rd, Hellesdon | Broadland | 14.7 | — |
| Land at former Little Plumstead Hospital, Hospital Rd, Great and Little Plumstea | Broadland | 9.7 | — |
| Former Pontins Holiday Camp, Beach Road, Hemsby | Great Yarmouth | 8.8 | 190 |
| Utilities Site, Cremorne Lane, Norwich | Norwich | 6.9 | 100 |
| Bartram Mowers Ltd, Land West of Bluebell Road, Norwich | Norwich | 5.5 | 62 |
| Land East of Brandon Road, Swaffham | Breckland | 5.1 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 8 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. 168 of the 488 sites (34%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 320 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. 12,592 across Norfolk 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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