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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 1 2024/25

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
29 Aug 2024
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'' web pages for an assessment of data quality for this release.

Key Facts

IMPORTANT: On 24th January 2025 we identified an error in the reporting of the key fact bullet point on sold plots of land, whereby the unit was incorrectly labelled as thousand square metres, and should have been square metres. We have corrected this below, and sincerly apologise to users for the inconvenience caused. No other publication information or products are affected.

As at 30th June 2024:

87 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) had data on our collection system relating to sold, surplus, potentially surplus (“opportunities”), or previously surplus land. 123 trusts had no currently surplus land. Including the 123 trusts that declared they currently had no surplus land, there were 476 entries in total on the Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) system.

133 plots

on the EFM system were declared as surplus land.

  • Surplus land (plots considered as or declared as surplus) covered a total land area of 125.44 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 584,805 square metres.

220 plots

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.

  • 207 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 300.85 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 674,724 square metres.
  • 4 plots were identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). These covered a land area of 2.95 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 3,266 square metres.
  • 9 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2024/25 onwards) covering a land of 8.86 area hectares and gross internal floor area of 15,710 square metres.

£12.49 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

  • The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £818.11 million pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.73 billion pounds.

222 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.

Last edited: 4 March 2025 3:17 pm