Housing target as at 20 September 2026 · leftover-land file 20 September 2026
The numbers
The 2024 leftover-land lists give the East of England 132,338 homes-worth of brownfield. The official housing target is 45,596 homes a year, or about 1.3 million over thirty years. That is about 2.9 years of the target, or 9.7% of thirty years, before any of the problems on the map.
| Figure | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| East register (CPRE 2024) | 132,338 dwellings | State of Brownfield 2025 |
| East extract (this site) | 122,616 dwellings · 2,969 sites · 23,053.1 ha | MHCLG brownfield-land dataset |
| Permissioned in the extract | 70,471 dwellings | planning-permission-status field |
| East starting point | 45,596 a year · about 1.3 million over 30 years | Standard method, Live Table 125 |
| England starting point | 371,114 a year · 11,133,420 over 30 years | Same method |
Counties
Bedfordshire
16,991 homes-worth on 316 sites · county target not separately compiled here.
Cambridgeshire
37,168 homes-worth on 491 sites · target 5,859 a year.
Essex
26,570 homes-worth on 1,052 sites · target 14,075 a year.
Hertfordshire
22,648 homes-worth on 495 sites · target 9,962 a year.
Norfolk
10,079 homes-worth on 389 sites · county target not separately compiled here.
Suffolk
9,160 homes-worth on 226 sites · target 5,105 a year.
Questions people ask
- How many brownfield homes are on East of England registers?
- CPRE's 2025 report, using 2024 data, records 132,338 minimum net dwellings. This site's MHCLG extract should be quoted with its own date and will differ as councils update.
- How does that compare with housing need?
- The official housing target for the East of England is 45,596 homes a year, or about 1.3 million over thirty years if that stayed flat. The leftover-land headline is roughly three years of that target.