South West
Land in Isles of Scilly
Figures for the Isles of Scilly council area (16 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.
212
registered land outlines of an acre or more, 100 of them 20 acres or more.
Search them in the site finder →2
brownfield register sites, 1 hectares in all, with room for at least 26 homes by the council's estimate.
See them on the map →9
plots that may not be registered with HM Land Registry, on our sister site.
Unregistered land in Isles of Scilly →0
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
No Housing Delivery Test 2025 result is published for this council as a whole.
Its adopted local plan is the Isles of Scilly Local Plan 2015-2030, adopted March 2021 (5 years ago; plans are meant to be reviewed at least every five years).
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 Isles of Scilly’s larger outlines are mostly in Green Belt. 93 (44%) are partly in flood zone 3, the highest risk.
From the government’s Planning Data platform. Check any site with Planning check.
Farmland quality
23% of the graded farmland outlines of an acre or more are grade 1 or 2, the best and most versatile land.
- Grade 12
- Grade 223
- Grade 453
- Grade 531
- Non-agricultural16
- Urban25
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
167 outlines of an acre or more are within 1 km of a primary or grid substation.
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.