Land for self-build homes

Open plots of 210 m² to 0.2 ha on a road, in or next to a town or village. Strips, verges and estate greens are left out, so what remains is the size and shape of a building plot.

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Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.

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  1. 210 m² to 0.2 ha
  2. Open
  3. On a road
  4. In or next to a town or village
  5. Outside national parks
NewingtonSwale Site size0.15 ha (0.4 acres)Road frontage27 mWidest point28 mDistance to built-up areaAdjoiningApplications on the site0 Open this site on the map

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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

Councils keep a register of people seeking self-build plots and must give permission for enough serviced plots to meet it within three years; a serviced plot has access to a public highway and connections for electricity, water and waste water (Self-build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015, sections 1, 2A and 5).

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. Strips and wedges (under 15 m across, or not compact) and hard standing are left out.

Land left open inside a town with no building, home sale or planning application on record is left out where it is a strip, a ragged outline or a long narrow plot, and so are small plots of it beside A roads: estate greens, verges and landscaping. A compact plot of it stays, lower in the order.

Sites from the search

Some of the sites the search returned on 10 November 2026. Each opens on the map with its record.

Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.

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