Development land in Worcestershire: 279 brownfield sites
The 6 planning authorities in Worcestershire have published 279 sites on their brownfield land registers — land the councils themselves assessed as suitable for housing. Together: about 272 hectares and an estimated 9,441 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Worcester | 109 | 80 | 4,071 |
| Wyre Forest | 59 | 110 | 3,446 |
| Wychavon | 42 | 22 | 940 |
| Malvern Hills | 37 | 38 | 984 |
| Redditch | 18 | 12 | — |
| Bromsgrove | 14 | 10 | — |
The six Worcestershire districts.
Largest sites in Worcestershire
| Site | Authority | Hectares | Max dwellings |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lea Castle Hospital Park Gate Road | Wyre Forest | 48.7 | 600 |
| Shrub Hill Opportunity Zone | Worcester | 19.7 | 469 |
| Malvern Technology Centre, Malvern | Malvern Hills | 15.4 | 376 |
| Land at Navigation Road, Diglis, Worcester | Worcester | 14.3 | 495 |
| Former Crown Packaging Site, Williamson Road | Worcester | 7.5 | 215 |
| Churchfields Business Park Clensmore Street | Wyre Forest | 7.1 | 246 |
| Parsons Chain, Hartlebury Road | Wyre Forest | 6.0 | 110 |
| 3-5 High Street, Bromsgrove | Bromsgrove | 5.9 | — |
| Sherriffe Gate | Worcester | 4.3 | 396 |
| Carden Street Opportunity Zone | Worcester | 3.9 | 120 |
| Employment site, top of Kings Road, Evesham | Wychavon | 3.8 | 110 |
| Land off Steatite Way | Wyre Forest | 3.3 | 106 |
Source: the councils’ own brownfield land registers, published via planning.data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence v3.0. 26 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. 32 of the 279 sites (11%) state no dwelling capacity, so the capacity figure covers the 247 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. 9,441 across Worcestershire 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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