Land for homes near a station
Open land of 0.2 to 10 ha within about an 800 m walk of a station. Around a well-connected station national policy asks for at least 35 homes a hectare. Stations with under 10,000 journeys a year do not count.
4,030 sites fit this search today
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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What the search looks for
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Open the search- About 800 m walk from a station (615 m straight line)
- 0.2 to 10 ha
- Open
- 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 takes about 800 m as a reasonable walk (NPPF, August 2026, glossary); 615 m in a straight line, as walking is about 1.3 times longer. Within that walk of a well-connected station (four trains an hour, in a larger travel to work area) it asks for at least 35 homes a hectare (L3). Larger sites are Strategic land.
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, land more than 250 m from a town or village, and stations with under 10,000 journeys a year (ORR estimates).
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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Lazonby0.25 ha
Westmorland and Furness
Nearest station Lazonby & KirkoswaldDistance to a station 402 m
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Lingwood and Burlingham1.66 ha
Broadland
Nearest station LingwoodDistance to a station 393 m
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Thurnscoe0.26 ha
Barnsley
Nearest station ThurnscoeDistance to a station 216 m
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Honeybourne2.80 ha
Wychavon
Nearest station HoneybourneDistance to a station 240 m
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Nafferton4.74 ha
East Riding of Yorkshire
Nearest station NaffertonDistance to a station 250 m
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Alsager0.24 ha
Cheshire East
Nearest station AlsagerDistance to a station 353 m
Imagery: Mapbox and Maxar. Boundaries: HM Land Registry INSPIRE, Crown copyright.
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