Land for medium housing sites
Open land of 0.5 to 5 ha within 100 m of a built-up area: the size national policy calls medium development, and a little above it. Each site shows its council's housing delivery and the age of its plan.
70,736 sites fit this search today
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
A land search, from the first words to a shortlist
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- 0.5 to 5 ha
- Open
- Within 100 m of a built-up area
- Outside national parks
On every site
- The council's housing position
- The Housing Delivery Test result, the age of the local plan, and homes added a year against the number the council needs.
- Constraints, measured on the site
- The share of the site in the green belt, each flood zone, a conservation area and the other mapped constraints, each from its named source.
- Planning on and around it
- Ten years of planning applications on the parcel, and homes approved nearby in the last five years.
Why these rules
National policy calls 10 to 49 homes on up to 2.5 ha medium development and asks plans to put 10% of their homes on sites of 1 to 2.5 ha (NPPF, August 2026, glossary and HO6); Plota's band runs to 5 ha so nothing falls between it and the larger searches.
National parks and the Broads are left out: national policy refuses major development there other than in exceptional circumstances and limits the scale of the rest (NPPF, August 2026, N4); set National park to Any under Constraints to include them. Woodland is left out.
Sites from the search
Six of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.
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Habrough0.55 ha
North East Lincolnshire
Distance to built-up area AdjoiningHousing Delivery Test 244%
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Deal0.61 ha
Dover
Distance to built-up area 2 mRoad frontage 138 m
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Curdridge2.25 ha
Winchester
Distance to built-up area AdjoiningRoad frontage 127 m
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Weeley1.20 ha
Tendring
Distance to built-up area AdjoiningRoad frontage 42 m
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Honeybourne2.21 ha
Wychavon
Distance to built-up area 89 mHousing Delivery Test 103%
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Holmes Chapel4.37 ha
Cheshire East
Distance to built-up area AdjoiningRoad frontage 141 m
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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