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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 1 2023/24

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
24 Aug 2023
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions
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Summary

The NHS Surplus Land collection has existed since 2008 and was originally designed to provide information to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), Homes England and the Office of Government Property (OGP) on sites that can be disposed of, thereby contributing to the Public Land for Housing Programme. The collection currently monitors the contribution made by the NHS to the release of publicly owned land to ensure the efficient and strategic use of the NHS estate. From 2020/21 onwards, reporting has been done by data providers on an “as needed” basis on a live collection system, providing more up to date and transparent information to the public and reducing the burden to data providers.

These statistics are produced from the live system which combines the previous NHS Digital collection with internal stakeholder collections in the same area. Please see the “Data Quality” worksheet in the “Data Definitions” workbook for an assessment of data quality for this release.

Key Facts

As at 30th June 2023:

210 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) had data on our collection system relating to surplus, potentially surplus ("opportunities"), or previously surplus land. 117 trusts had no declared surplus land.

129 plots

of the total 494 entries on the Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) system were declared as surplus land.

Surplus land (plots considered as or declared as surplus) covered a total land area of 133.02 hectares and gross internal floor area of 591 thousand square metres.

248 plots

on EFM were declared as potentially surplus, had been sold, or were previously on the system as surplus or potentially surplus but are now no longer surplus.

  • 241 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 337.88 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 838 thousand square metres.
  • 1 plot was identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). This covered a land area of 0.5 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 6 thousand square metres.
  • 6 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2022/23 onwards) covering a land area of 1.89 hectares and gross internal floor area of 4 thousand square metres.

£1.75 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £0.92 billion pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.91 billion.

249 plots

were declared as sensitive.

These are included in the aggregate figures above and in the interactive report, but not in any granular data in the underlying data (.csv) file.

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