Updated 20 September 2026
About
This site is for people who live in the East of England and keep being told the new houses can go on leftover brownfield land. The lists do not hold enough workable homes. The pages show the official numbers, a map of the leftover sites, and the reasons most of those sites cannot take the houses.
What this is
A straight answer to a claim you keep hearing: that brownfield will soak up the houses. It will not, not in the East of England. The numbers are official. The reading is ours.
What this is not
It is not a government service, a local-plan evidence base, or a report on one contaminated plot. It is not legal advice. Map colours are a first screen, not a survey.
Contact
Questions people ask
- Who publishes this?
- An independent site for residents. It is not a government website and it does not speak for any council.
- How should I cite it?
- Use the page URL, the site name Brownfield Land, and the date on the page. If a government source differs, cite the government source.
Where the numbers come from
- State of Brownfield 2025 — CPRE, 1 September 2025. Uses 2024 register data. East of England: 132,338 minimum net dwellings, of which 75,212 (57%) had planning permission.
- Brownfield land dataset — Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, 20 September 2026. National aggregation of Part 1 registers. Points, not polygons. Coverage may be incomplete. Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Open Government Licence v3.0 — The National Archives, 1 January 2014