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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land - Quarter 3 2020/21

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
18 Feb 2021
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions
Date Range:
01 Oct 2020 to 31 Dec 2020
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Summary

NHS Surplus Land - Quarter 3 2020/21

Highlights

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.

 

These statistics are currently classed as “Experimental” as it is the second time they 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 Report” for an assessment of data quality for this release.

A total of 585 plots of land were declared as surplus or potentially surplus to requirements by 111 trusts and by NHS Property Services.

This includes land previous declared as surplus, but now confirmed to be no longer surplus.

Of these:

- 45 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2020/21 onwards) covering a land area of 35.4 hectares and gross internal floor area of 83 thousand square metres.  

- 527 plots were identified as being surplus or potentially surplus (“opportunities”) covering a land area of 644.6 hectares and gross internal floor area of 1,506 thousand square metres.

- The total land surplus land area above (to be consistent with previous measures of surplus land and including sold land) was 680 hectares.

The sales receipt for sold land totalled £51.5 million pounds and the estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £1.2 billion pounds.

Issues of sensitivity were declared in relation to 322 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: 17 February 2021 10:23 am