Development land in Tees Valley: 212 brownfield sites
The 5 planning authorities in Tees Valley have published 212 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 392 hectares and an estimated 10,641 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Middlesbrough | 64 | 65 | 3,349 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 59 | 44 | 1,429 |
| Hartlepool | 40 | 68 | 2,049 |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 26 | 155 | 3,814 |
| Darlington | 23 | 59 | — |
The five Tees Valley unitary authorities.
Largest sites in Tees Valley
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boathouse Lane | Stockton-on-Tees | 71.7 | 500 |
| Tees Marshalling Yard | Stockton-on-Tees | 34.5 | 1300 |
| St George Way, DTVA (Part) | Darlington | 24.3 | — |
| Britmag North, Old Cemetery Rd, De Bruce Ward | Hartlepool | 21.0 | 373 |
| Brenda Road East, Brenda Rd, Seaton Ward | Hartlepool | 17.3 | 234 |
| Land off Grangefield Road (Millfield) | Stockton-on-Tees | 17.1 | 800 |
| Lingfield Point East | Darlington | 10.2 | — |
| Church Lane North Estate, Grangetown | Redcar and Cleveland | 8.8 | 19 |
| Land East of Stockton Street, Middlehaven | Middlesbrough | 8.5 | 235 |
| Keith Road/The Vale, Grove Hill (Hillside Gardens) | Middlesbrough | 8.2 | 252 |
| Former Corus Site, Whessoe Road | Darlington | 7.3 | — |
| Bowesfield Riverside Phase 1 | Stockton-on-Tees | 6.5 | 148 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 further entry repeats the area of a site already listed (councils often record a whole site's area against each phase), so that land is counted once. 32 of the 212 sites (15%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 180 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. 10,641 across Tees Valley 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 →
GoSiteHunt is an advertising and analysis platform, not a real estate agent or planning consultancy. Everything here is indicative screening from public data — not a valuation, not planning advice, and never a substitute for the councils’ own records or your own professional advisers.