Development land in Suffolk: 369 brownfield sites
The 5 planning authorities in Suffolk have published 369 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 371 hectares and an estimated 12,791 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ipswich | 151 | 84 | 4,610 |
| East Suffolk | 139 | 152 | 4,906 |
| Mid Suffolk | 32 | 63 | 1,314 |
| West Suffolk | 27 | 21 | 1,210 |
| Babergh | 20 | 51 | 751 |
The five Suffolk districts.
Largest sites in Suffolk
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Former Sanyo site Lowestoft Suffolk | East Suffolk | 36.4 | 650 |
| Former HMS Ganges Site, Shotley Gate | Babergh | 24.0 | 285 |
| Part Former Jeld Wen site Lowestoft Suffolk | East Suffolk | 14.4 | 300 |
| Needham Chalks Ltd, Ipswich Rd, Needham Market | Mid Suffolk | 14.4 | 264 |
| Brooke Business Park Lowestoft Suffolk | East Suffolk | 11.9 | 850 |
| Former H M Prison Blundeston Lakeside Rise Blundeston Suffolk | East Suffolk | 9.9 | 130 |
| Former Grampian/Harris Factory, St. Edmund Drive, Elmswell | Mid Suffolk | 6.6 | 184 |
| Island Site | Ipswich | 6.0 | 421 |
| Belstead House, Sprites Lane, Pinewood | Babergh | 5.7 | 135 |
| Suffolk Police HQ, Portal Avenue, Martlesham | East Suffolk | 5.4 | 150 |
| Felixstowe Road | Ipswich | 5.0 | 137 |
| Sproughton House, High Street, Sproughton | Babergh | 4.6 | 12 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 35 of the 369 sites (9%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 334 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. 12,791 across Suffolk 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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