NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 4 2021/22

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:: 9 Jun 2022
Geographic Coverage:: England
Geographical Granularity:: Ambulance Trusts, Care Trusts, Hospital Trusts, Mental Health Trusts, NHS Trusts, Regions

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.

These statistics are 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

*IMPORTANT* - DATA CORRECTION

We were informed by NHS Property Services in August 2023 that one plot (Guisborough hospital) was incorrectly reported as “sold” on our collection system. As the plot didn’t appear in the subsequent 2022/23 reporting year, we assume that it should have been reported with a disposal status of “no longer surplus”.

This change has the following effect on the headline figures in the key facts:

Sales receipt: £93,370,229.9 (0.7% decrease from the reported value of £94,070,220.93)

Land area for sold land: 39.69 hectares (3.3% decrease from the reported figure of 41.03 hectares)

Gross internal floor area for sold land: 74,272 square metres (5.8% decrease from the reported value of 78,869 square metres)

Land area for no longer surplus land: 32.24 hectares (4.3% increase to the reported figure of 30.09)

Gross internal floor area for no longer surplus land: 53,128 square metres (9.5% increase to the reported figure of 48,53)

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and advise users making use of these historical figures to revise outputs where necessary.

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As at 31^st March 2022:

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

478 plots of land

were declared as surplus or potentially surplus to requirements by 110 trusts and by NHS Property Services (this includes land previous declared as surplus, but now confirmed to be no longer surplus). Of these:

441 plots were identified as being surplus or potentially surplus (“opportunities”) covering a land area of 582.82 hectares and gross internal floor area of 1,627 thousand square metres.

37 plots were identified as being no longer surplus covering a land area of 30.90 hectares and gross internal floor area of 49 thousand square metres.

To be consistent with previous measures of surplus land, the total including sold land was 655 hectares.

67 plots

plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2021/22 onwards) covering a land area of 41.03 hectares and gross internal floor area of 79 thousand square metres.

£94.07 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £1,211 million pounds.

298 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.