Development land in West Yorkshire: 1,525 brownfield sites
The 5 planning authorities in West Yorkshire have published 1,525 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 1,628 hectares and an estimated 64,214 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leeds | 496 | 760 | 36,186 |
| Bradford | 387 | 297 | 13,485 |
| Calderdale | 232 | 94 | — |
| Wakefield | 210 | 298 | 7,131 |
| Kirklees | 200 | 178 | 7,412 |
The five West Yorkshire districts — Leeds, Bradford, Kirklees, Wakefield and Calderdale.
Largest sites in West Yorkshire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Parkway and Brooklands, Seacroft | Leeds | 96.0 | 30 |
| Former C6 Solutions Centre, Castleford | Wakefield | 37.1 | 300 |
| Bolton Woods Quarry, Bolton Woods | Bradford | 29.8 | — |
| Former Storthes Hall Hospital, Storthes Hall Lane, Kirkburton, Huddersfield, HD8 | Kirklees | 28.8 | 505 |
| Bolton Woods Quarry, Bolton Woods, City Centre | Bradford | 25.6 | — |
| High Royds Bradford Road Menston | Leeds | 24.6 | 30 |
| Ring Road West Park, Silk Mill Way And Iveson Drive | Leeds | 24.4 | 335 |
| Former C6 And Nestle Site, Castleford | Wakefield | 24.1 | 723 |
| Former Vickers Tank Factory Site, Manston Lane, Cross Gates | Leeds | 21.5 | 450 |
| Clarient Production Uk Limited, Calverley Lane, Horsforth, LS18 4RP | Leeds | 18.8 | 119 |
| Kirkstall Forge Abbey Road Kirkstall Leeds Kirkstall Forge, Abbey Road, Kirkstal | Leeds | 17.8 | 1385 |
| Prince of Wales Colliery Park Road, Pontefract | Wakefield | 16.9 | — |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 1 site in West 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. 11 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. 474 of the 1525 sites (31%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 1051 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. 64,214 across West 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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