Development land in Staffordshire: 920 brownfield sites
The 9 planning authorities in Staffordshire have published 920 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,086 hectares and an estimated 29,525 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stoke-on-Trent | 353 | 280 | 12,756 |
| Cannock Chase | 134 | 107 | 3,903 |
| East Staffordshire | 96 | 92 | 3,924 |
| Newcastle-under-Lyme | 82 | 93 | — |
| Lichfield | 67 | 182 | 5,538 |
| South Staffordshire | 63 | 49 | 434 |
| Staffordshire Moorlands | 55 | 63 | 1,031 |
| Tamworth | 39 | 170 | 845 |
| Stafford | 31 | 49 | 1,094 |
The eight Staffordshire districts plus the Stoke-on-Trent unitary.
Largest sites in Staffordshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rugeley Power Station, Rugeley | Lichfield | 83.8 | 2300 |
| Rugeley Power Station, Rugeley | Cannock Chase | 35.5 | 1000 |
| Land at Halifax Avenue, Fradley | Lichfield | 34.0 | 750 |
| Land Off Fairway Littleworth Stafford Staffordshire ST17 4NH | Stafford | 22.7 | 196 |
| Branston Depot | East Staffordshire | 19.3 | 771 |
| Pepper Street, Keele | Newcastle-under-Lyme | 14.2 | — |
| Land at Trentham Lakes, Stanley Matthews Way, Stoke-on-Trent | Stoke-on-Trent | 13.5 | — |
| Former General Electric / Alstom Premises, Lichfield Road, Stafford, ST17 4UJ | Stafford | 12.5 | 359 |
| Land off Gorse Lane, Fradley Park | Lichfield | 12.0 | 350 |
| Land off Cottage Farm Road | Tamworth | 11.8 | 75 |
| Wedgwood Estate (Employment), Wedgwood Drive, Trentham, Stoke-on-Trent, ST12 9ER | Stoke-on-Trent | 11.8 | — |
| Kettlebrook Road Industrial Estate, South | Tamworth | 10.6 | 53 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 81 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. 262 of the 920 sites (28%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 658 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. 29,525 across Staffordshire 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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