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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Quarter 4 2023/24

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
6 Jun 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.

Key Facts

As at 31st March 2024:

94 trusts as well as NHS Property Services (who provide managed NHS estate to trusts) provided confirmed validated data. 116 trusts declared they currently had no surplus land.  

128 plots

of the total 546 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 121.86 hectares and gross internal floor area of 0.6 million square metres.

302 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.   

  • 199 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 309.12 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 684.9 thousand square metres.
  • 50 plots were identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). These covered a land area of 40.27 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 44.3 thousand square metres.
  • 53 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2023/24 onwards) covering a land area of 21.85 hectares and gross internal floor area of 41.8 thousand square metres.
  • One trust, West London NHS Trust, did not finalise their return so data relating to their two plots should be treated with caution. 

£47.1 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £0.83 billion pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.8 billion.

 

248 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: 4 March 2025 3:18 pm