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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 3 2022/23

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
9 Feb 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.

Highlights

212 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) provided confirmed validated data, including “no surplus land” declarations.

As at 31st December 2022:

147 plots

of the total 583 plots on the Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) system were declared as surplus land.

Of the plots on the system:

  • Surplus land covered a total land area of 137.63 hectares and gross internal floor area of 592 thousand square metres.
  • 276 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 400.83 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 950 thousand square metres.
  • 39 plots were identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). These covered a land area of 34.68 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 85 thousand square metres.

Twenty plots

had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2022/23 onwards) covering a land area of 13.01 hectares and gross internal floor area of 17 thousand square metres.

£15.24 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £1.01 billion pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.91 billion.

308 plots

were declared as sensitive.

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

Last edited: 8 February 2023 3:47 pm