Development land in South Yorkshire: 1,097 brownfield sites
The 4 planning authorities in South Yorkshire have published 1,097 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,084 hectares and an estimated 9,294 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheffield | 667 | 370 | — |
| Doncaster | 243 | 528 | 625 |
| Barnsley | 99 | 132 | 6,210 |
| Rotherham | 88 | 55 | 2,459 |
The four South Yorkshire districts.
Largest sites in South Yorkshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Site Of Former Rossington Colliery, West End Lane, New Rossington | Doncaster | 51.7 | — |
| Site Of Former Rossington Colliery, West End Lane, New Rossington | Doncaster | 49.0 | — |
| Former McCormick Tractors International, Wheatley Hall Road, Wheatley | Doncaster | 41.4 | — |
| Former McCormick Tractors International, Wheatley Hall Road, Wheatley, Doncaster | Doncaster | 40.7 | — |
| Informal Land, Eden Grove, Hexthorpe, Doncaster, DN4 0DA | Doncaster | 32.1 | — |
| Former Steins Tip, Station Road, Deepcar | Sheffield | 24.6 | — |
| Kirk Street/Ramsden Road/Eden Grove | Doncaster | 21.3 | — |
| Site At Former Yorkshire Main Colliery , Broomhouse Lane, Balby | Doncaster | 17.6 | — |
| Former Yorkshire Main Colliery Tip Site, Lords Head Lane, Warmsworth, Doncaster, | Doncaster | 17.0 | — |
| Askern Saw Mills, High Street, Askern | Doncaster | 15.1 | — |
| Askern Saw Mills, High Street, Askern | Doncaster | 15.1 | — |
| Bannerdale Centre & Park Site, Carter Knowle Road | Sheffield | 14.9 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 site in South Yorkshire records an area that cannot be right (the register's hectares column sometimes holds square metres) and is left out of the hectare total. 21 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. 921 of the 1097 sites (84%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 176 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. 9,294 across South Yorkshire 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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