Site finder
Registered land in any English council, by size, constraints and grid. How it works and its limits
About this data
Pick a council or come from the data centre map, choose what you’re looking for (small infill site, solar farm, battery storage, data centre or housing) for a starting set of filters, and change any of them. Click a result for its outline, then check who owns it, save it, or save the whole search to hear about new matches.
Each result is a registered freehold title outline from HM Land Registry’s INSPIRE index, of a quarter of an acre or more. One title can have several outlines, and one outline isn’t always one field or plot. We measure each outline against the government’s Planning Data maps of Green Belt, flood zones, National Parks and National Landscapes, SSSIs and conservation areas, and against substations mapped on OpenStreetMap. The farmland grade is Natural England’s provisional grade at the outline’s centre: a broad-scale map that doesn’t split grade 3 into 3a and 3b, so a field survey is still needed. Demand headroom is the most published demand (import) headroom the network operator publishes for its substations within 5 km, from all six network operators in England. Slope and the way it faces are worked out from Ordnance Survey’s 50 m height data around each outline’s centre, and nutrient neutrality catchments are Natural England’s. “In towns and cities only” uses the urban areas on Natural England’s farmland map, a broad-scale map that leaves out villages and small towns. These are screening measures, not a planning assessment: none of it says whether land is for sale, could get planning permission, or has grid capacity. Land that isn’t registered isn’t included; for that, see Unregistered Land Finder.
Sources: HM Land Registry INSPIRE Index Polygons (Crown copyright); MHCLG Planning Data; Provisional Agricultural Land Classification and nutrient neutrality catchments © Natural England copyright, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right, Open Government Licence; OS Terrain 50 © Crown copyright and database right, Open Government Licence; PVGIS © European Union, CC BY 4.0; SSEN Distribution Headroom Dashboard (CC BY 4.0); Supported by Northern Powergrid Open Data; UK Power Networks, SP Electricity North West and SP Energy Networks capacity heatmaps (CC BY 4.0); Supported by NGED Open Data; © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).
The data is rebuilt every few months, so recent changes may be missing. Who owns this land? always shows the latest outlines.