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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 3 2023/24

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
8 Feb 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.

Highlights

On 13th May 2024 it was identified that we had incorrectly reported the gross internal floor area for potentially surplus land "opportunities" in the key facts as 825,194 thousand square metres instead of 825.2 thousand square metres. We have corrected this below, and sincerly apologise to users for the inconvenience caused. No other publication products are affected.

Key Facts

As at 31st December 2023:

94 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. 116 trusts had no currently surplus land.

141 plots

of the total 525 entries on the Estates and Facilities Management (EFM) system were declared as surplus land. 

  • Surplus land (plots considered as or declared as surplus) covered a total land area of 122.13 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 0.6 million square metres.

268 plots

on EFM 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.

  • 220 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 321.90 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 825.2 thousand square metres.
  • 20 plots were identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). These covered a land area of 24.68 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 22.8 thousand square metres.
  • 28 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2023/24 onwards) covering a land of 11.71 area hectares and gross internal floor area of 13.4 thousand square metres.

£20.5 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £0.89 billion pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.7 billion.

257 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 3:18 pm