Land for big warehouses

Flat, compact land of 2.3 ha or more, at least 100 m across, within 2 km of a motorway or beside a trunk A road: room for a 100,000 sq ft shed and its yard. Flood zone 3 and the green belt are left out.

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  1. 2.3 ha or more
  2. Compact
  3. At least 100 m across
  4. Flat
  5. Within 2 km of a motorway or beside a trunk A road
  6. Out of flood zone 3, the green belt and national parks
  7. No housing estate or village on it
BanburyCherwell Site size2.86 ha (7.1 acres)Distance to a motorway19 mDistance to an A road270 mWidest point153 mAverage slope0.9°Spare demand capacity58.4 MVA Open this site on the map

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Roads and traffic
Distance to a motorway and to an A road, and the daily traffic count on the road where the Department for Transport counts it.
Shape and ground
Width at the widest point, how compact the plot is, its slope and the share in each flood zone.
The town it serves
The population of the built-up area, and spare demand capacity at the nearest primary substation.

Why these rules

2.3 ha holds one 100,000 sq ft shed at 40% cover (the industry's big shed definition), and 100 m across fits the shed and its yard; occupiers want a motorway close by. Outside settlements national policy allows major freight and logistics to meet an evidenced unmet need (NPPF, August 2026, S5(1)(j)(ii), E2 and E3).

Housing estates and villages are left out (at most 10 addresses a hectare and 50 in all): 95% of housing sites have more than 11 a hectare and half of industrial sites under 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. Woodland is left out.

A busy trunk A road counts as a motorway: land within 250 m of an A road carrying 30,000 or more vehicles a day, 2,000 of them lorries (DfT road traffic counts). Land with buildings in use ranks lower.

Sites from the search

Six 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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