Development land in Oxfordshire: 466 brownfield sites
The 5 planning authorities in Oxfordshire have published 466 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 778 hectares and an estimated 16,806 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cherwell | 133 | 168 | — |
| Oxford | 130 | 246 | 7,949 |
| South Oxfordshire | 96 | 241 | 5,861 |
| Vale of White Horse | 74 | 89 | 1,926 |
| West Oxfordshire | 33 | 35 | 1,070 |
The five Oxfordshire districts.
Largest sites in Oxfordshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Land at former Didcot A Power Station Purchas Road Didcot | Vale of White Horse | 46.9 | 400 |
| Land at Highlands Farm, Henley-on-Thames | South Oxfordshire | 33.6 | 536 |
| Land at Highlands Farm, Henley-on-Thames | South Oxfordshire | 33.6 | — |
| Mongewell Park (Carmel College), Mongewell | South Oxfordshire | 30.9 | 166 |
| Sites H & G, South of Palmer Avenue, Lower Arncott | Cherwell | 28.4 | — |
| John Radcliffe Hospital, Headley Way, Oxford, OX3 9DU | Oxford | 27.8 | — |
| Canalside, Banbury | Cherwell | 25.6 | — |
| Churchill Hospital and Ambulance Resource Centre, Oxford | Oxford | 22.7 | 148 |
| Oxford Brookes University Campus, Wheatley | South Oxfordshire | 21.5 | 300 |
| Osney Mead | Oxford | 17.8 | 247 |
| Former Oil Storage Depot, Bletchingdon Road, Islip | Cherwell | 13.3 | — |
| University of Oxford Science Area & Keble Road Triangle | Oxford | 12.4 | 20 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 site in Oxfordshire records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total. 41 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. 181 of the 466 sites (39%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 285 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. 16,806 across Oxfordshire 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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