The Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) says that suitable brownfield sites in England can provide up to 1.4 million new homes.
The CPRE used the Government’s pilot brownfield register scheme to estimate that brownfield sites could provide between 1.1 and 1.4 million new homes.
CPRE looked at the data on suitable sites from 53 councils and estimated that these areas could provide 273,000 homes. Using the latest data available from 2010-2012, it found an 11% increase in the number of homes that could be provided on these sites. Applying his increase across the whole country resulted in a new estimated minimum capacity of 1.1 million homes.
It also used another methodology to extrapolate the figures from the pilot register based on their rural/urban classification. Together with the London Land Commission’s data, this gave a minimum estimate of 1.4 million homes.
View the CPRE’s news story
View the CPRE’s Housing capacity on suitable brownfield land report
