Suffolk, East of England
Land in East Suffolk
Figures for the East Suffolk council area (1,261 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.
12,615
registered land outlines of an acre or more, 2,887 of them 20 acres or more.
Search them in the site finder →75
brownfield register sites, 108 hectares in all, with room for at least 3,457 homes by the council's estimate.
See them on the map →1,877
plots that may not be registered with HM Land Registry, on our sister site.
Unregistered land in East Suffolk →1,147
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, East Suffolk built 91% of the homes it needed over three years: action plan.
The council delivered under 95% of the homes it needed, so it must publish an action plan.
Its adopted local plan is the East Suffolk Council Local Plan 2019, adopted March 2019 (7 years ago; plans are meant to be reviewed at least every five years).
A new plan, the East Suffolk Local Plan, is at draft stage.
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
None of East Suffolk’s larger outlines are mostly in Green Belt. 2,181 (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
20% of the graded farmland outlines of an acre or more are grade 1 or 2, the best and most versatile land.
- Grade 199
- Grade 22,097
- Grade 36,475
- Grade 42,298
- Non-agricultural651
- Urban915
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
953 outlines of an acre or more are within 1 km of a primary or grid substation.
The best 2 km square for a data centre scores 88 out of 100, and 14 squares score 70 or more. Data centre site search →
Nearby council areas
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.