Development land in Nottinghamshire: 498 brownfield sites
The 8 planning authorities in Nottinghamshire have published 498 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 819 hectares and an estimated 14,742 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham | 164 | 184 | 7,818 |
| Gedling | 81 | 34 | 2,416 |
| Newark and Sherwood | 79 | 77 | 2,057 |
| Bassetlaw | 62 | 234 | — |
| Ashfield | 39 | 47 | 864 |
| Rushcliffe | 32 | 54 | 1,462 |
| Broxtowe | 23 | 172 | — |
| Mansfield | 18 | 18 | 125 |
The seven Nottinghamshire districts plus the Nottingham unitary.
Largest sites in Nottinghamshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chetwynd Barracks Chetwynd Road Chilwell | Broxtowe | 94.6 | — |
| Harworth Colliery Scrooby Road Harworth | Bassetlaw | 65.1 | — |
| ' Harworth Colliery Scrooby Road Harworth and Bircotes '' | Bassetlaw | 62.0 | — |
| Stanton Tip - Hempshill Vale | Nottingham | 42.6 | 500 |
| Former RAF Newton, Newton | Rushcliffe | 35.4 | — |
| ' Welbeck Colliery Budby Road Welbeck '' | Bassetlaw | 33.6 | — |
| Rolls Royce, Watnall Road, Hucknall | Ashfield | 31.1 | 286 |
| Beeston Business Park Technology Drive Beeston | Broxtowe | 19.6 | — |
| Welbeck Colliery Meden Vale | Bassetlaw | 17.3 | — |
| The Boots Company Beeston site | Broxtowe | 14.7 | — |
| Chalfont Drive - Former Government Buildings | Nottingham | 13.8 | 104 |
| ' Firbeck Colliery Doncaster Road Carlton in Lindrick '' | Bassetlaw | 13.8 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 site in Nottinghamshire records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total. 45 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. 205 of the 498 sites (41%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 293 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. 14,742 across Nottinghamshire 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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