Development land in Surrey: 1,502 brownfield sites
The 11 planning authorities in Surrey have published 1,502 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,320 hectares and an estimated 33,281 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elmbridge | 251 | 119 | 3,145 |
| Runnymede | 204 | 232 | 5,001 |
| Reigate and Banstead | 187 | 78 | 3,486 |
| Tandridge | 178 | 136 | 1,738 |
| Guildford | 144 | 158 | 7,573 |
| Surrey Heath | 135 | 144 | 4,798 |
| Woking | 111 | 71 | — |
| Waverley | 110 | 301 | 4,842 |
| Mole Valley | 77 | 51 | 1,245 |
| Spelthorne | 59 | 23 | — |
| Epsom and Ewell | 46 | 7 | 1,453 |
The eleven Surrey districts.
Largest sites in Surrey
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dunsfold Aerodrome, Stovolds Hill, Cranleigh | Waverley | 214.0 | 2600 |
| Princess Royal Barracks 1, Brunswick Road, Deepcut | Surrey Heath | 44.5 | 1197 |
| Weyside Urban Village (Slyfield Area Regeneration Project), Slyfield Green, Guil | Guildford | 40.0 | 1550 |
| Slyfield Area Regeneration Project, Guildford | Guildford | 40.0 | 1000 |
| Land within Sheerwater Priority Place, Albert Drive, Woking GU21 5RE | Woking | 33.0 | — |
| Longcross Garden Village | Runnymede | 28.0 | — |
| Longcross Garden Village (northern site) | Runnymede | 28.0 | 200 |
| St Johns Seminary, Cranleigh Road, Wonersh, Guildford, GU5 0QX | Waverley | 18.5 | 50 |
| Rydens Enterprise School and Sixth Form College Hersham Road Hersham Walton-On-T | Elmbridge | 16.7 | — |
| Brooklands Farm, Lower South Park Road, South Godstone RH9 8LF | Tandridge | 14.0 | 3 |
| Tekels Park, Camberley, GU15 2LE | Surrey Heath | 12.8 | 18 |
| St Peters Hospital | Runnymede | 12.1 | 420 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 75 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. 464 of the 1502 sites (31%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 1038 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. 33,281 across Surrey 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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