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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 3 2021/22

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
10 Feb 2022
Geographic Coverage:
England
Geographical Granularity:
Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions
Date Range:
Snapshot on 31 Dec 2021
Page contents

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 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 sixth time these statistics have been produced from a 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.

Highlights

As at 31st December 2021:

 

215 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) provided confirmed validated data. Of these:

508 plots of land

were declared as surplus or potentially surplus to requirements by 109 trusts and by NHS Property Services (this includes land previous declared as surplus, but now confirmed to be no longer surplus).  Of these:

490 plots were identified as being surplus or potentially surplus (“opportunities”) covering a land area of 627.21 hectares and gross internal floor area of 1,654 thousand square metres.

18 plots were identified as being no longer surplus covering a land area of 11.29 hectares and gross internal floor area of 16 thousand square metres.

30 plots

had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2021/22 onwards) covering a land area of 13.16 hectares and gross internal floor area of 24 thousand square metres.  

To be consistent with previous measures of surplus land, the total including sold land was 652 hectares.

£27.31 million pounds total

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £1,287 million pounds.

316 plots of land

were declared as sensitive.

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

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