Oxfordshire, South East
Land in Cherwell
Figures for the Cherwell council area (589 km²) from the open data behind our tools: registered land by size, planning constraints, farmland quality, the electricity network, brownfield sites, and land that may not be registered at all.
6,474
registered land outlines of an acre or more, 1,603 of them 20 acres or more.
Search them in the site finder →133
brownfield register sites, 618 hectares in all, with room for at least 0 homes by the council's estimate.
See them on the map →928
plots that may not be registered with HM Land Registry, on our sister site.
Unregistered land in Cherwell →666
outlines that pass the site finder’s solar farm starting filters: 20 acres or more, near a substation, outside the main constraints and the best farmland.
Show them →Housing and the local plan
In the government’s Housing Delivery Test 2025, Cherwell built 134% of the homes it needed over three years: no consequence.
The council delivered at least 95% of the homes it needed.
Its adopted local plan is the Cherwell Local Plan 2011-2031 (Part 1), adopted July 2015 (11 years ago; plans are meant to be reviewed at least every five years).
A new plan, the Cherwell Local Plan Review 2040, is at early consultation (Regulation 18).
From MHCLG’s Housing Delivery Test and the Planning Data platform’s local plan records, which some councils haven’t kept up to date. Whether the tilted balance applies to a scheme also depends on the council’s five-year land supply and the site itself: get planning advice.
Planning constraints
Of the 6,474 outlines of an acre or more, 902 (14%) are mostly in Green Belt. 1,121 (17%) are partly in flood zone 3, the highest risk.
From the government’s Planning Data platform. Check any site with Planning check.
Farmland quality
16% of the graded farmland outlines of an acre or more are grade 1 or 2, the best and most versatile land.
- Grade 2940
- Grade 33,032
- Grade 42,016
- Grade 565
- Non-agricultural82
- Urban339
Natural England’s provisional grades at the centre of each outline. A broad-scale map, so a field survey is needed for any one site.
Electricity network
513 outlines of an acre or more are within 1 km of a primary or grid substation. The network operator’s published figures show no spare demand capacity at its substations here.
The best 2 km square for a data centre scores 38 out of 100. Data centre site search →
Nearby council areas
- West Oxfordshire
- Oxford
- West Northamptonshire
- Stratford-on-Avon
- Buckinghamshire
- Vale of White Horse
- All councils
Counts are of HM Land Registry INSPIRE title outlines (one title can have several outlines, and an outline isn’t always one field), counted under the council HM Land Registry files them with. Substations are from OpenStreetMap. None of this says whether land is for sale or could get planning permission. Sources: HM Land Registry; MHCLG Planning Data; Provisional Agricultural Land Classification © Natural England, Open Government Licence; the councils’ brownfield land registers; network operator open data; © OpenStreetMap contributors.