Land in councils short of housing land
Open land of 0.4 ha or more beside a town or village, in a council where housing delivery is under 75%, or the plan is over five years old and fewer homes are added a year than the council needs.
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- Open land of 0.4 ha or more outside national parks
- Where delivery is under 75%, or the local plan is over five years old and fewer homes are added a year than the council needs
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 (NPPF, August 2026, S5(1)(j) and Annex D): development outside settlements can meet an evidenced unmet need for homes, which is deemed to exist where the latest Housing Delivery Test is under 75%; where a plan is over five years old its supply is measured against local housing need (Annex D 8).
Plota counts a council as short where delivery is under 75%, or its plan is over five years old and it adds fewer homes a year than that need; a plan's age alone is not enough. The site report gives each council's own figures.
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. Car parks, yards and hard standing are left out, and land more than 250 m from a town or village. 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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Cliffsend2.79 ha
Thanet
Housing Delivery Test 70%Local plan age 6.3 years
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Clyst St. George4.74 ha
East Devon
Housing Delivery Test 84%Local plan age 11 years
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Bledlow-cum-Saunderton3.33 ha
Buckinghamshire
Housing Delivery Test 94%Local plan age 16 years
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Brading0.97 ha
Isle of Wight
Housing Delivery Test 37%Local plan age 0.1 years
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Runton6.14 ha
North Norfolk
Housing Delivery Test 54%Local plan age 0.9 years
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Warehorne1.55 ha
Ashford
Housing Delivery Test 75%Local plan age 7.7 years
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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