Summary
The NHS Surplus Land collection has existed since 2008 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 monitors the contribution made by the NHS to government targets on release of publicly owned land and the targets for contributions of income from public sector land sales. From 2020/21 onwards, reporting is 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.
This is the fifth time these statistics have been produced from a live system which amalgamates 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.
As at 30th September 2021:
215 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) provided confirmed validated data. Of these:
A total of 489 plots of land were declared as surplus or potentially surplus to requirements by 108 trusts and by NHS Property Services (this includes land previous declared as surplus, but now confirmed to be no longer surplus). Of these:
21 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2021/2022 onwards) covering a land area of 6.28 hectares and gross internal floor area of 11 thousand square metres. 474 plots were identified as being surplus or potentially surplus (“opportunities”) covering a land area of 621.71 hectares and gross internal floor area of 1,663 thousand square metres. The total land surplus land area above (to be consistent with previous measures of surplus land and including sold land) was 628 hectares.
Sales receipt & Estimated sales receipt
The sales receipt for sold land totalled £19.28 million pounds and the estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £1,205 million pounds.
Issues of sensitivity were declared in relation to 298 plots of surplus land. These are included in the aggregate figures above, but not in any granular data in the underlying data (.csv) file.
Last edited: 10 November 2021 10:11 am
