Brownfield Land Register

The Council has updated and published Part 1 of its Brownfield Land Register for 2025. This provides up-to-date and consistent information on brownfield sites that the Council considers appropriate for residential development.

About the Part 1 Brownfield Land Register

Regulation 3 of the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017 requires each local planning authority in England to prepare, maintain and publish a register of previously developed land (Brownfield) suitable for housing, known as the Brownfield Land Register.

Further guidance has been published in the form of Planning Practice Guidance (July 2017) and the Brownfield Land Registers Data Standard (Oct 2019) the latter of which includes the template and instructions of how the register should be compiled and published. Local planning authorities are required to review their Brownfield Land Registers at least once a year.

The definition of previously developed land; which is also often referred to as brownfield land, can be found in Annex 2: Glossary of the (Dec 2023) National Planning Policy Framework

Part 1 of the register comprises all brownfield sites that the Council has assessed as appropriate for residential development and includes sites with extant planning permission as well as some sites without planning permission. Data has been provided in line with the national guidance covering data standards and this ensures the register meets the requirements of the 2017 Regulations; including publication of the register in csv format.

It is important to note that identification of a site within Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register does not imply that planning permission will be granted (if a site is not already subject to an extant permission).

Tameside Council’s Brownfield Land Register (2025)

The most recent published Tameside Brownfield Land Register is the 2025 register, which has identified land with the potential to deliver 3,502 net additional dwellings, on 96 sites, across 41.31 hectares of brownfield land within the Borough. Tameside’s Brownfield Land Register documents are available for download below:

• 2025 Tameside Brownfield Land Register – Methodology and Report
• 2025 Tameside Brownfield Land Register – CSV File

How will the Council Maintain Part 1 of the Brownfield Land Register?

Each spring, the Council undertakes annual monitoring of residential planning permissions and completions. Following this, the relevant evidence base on land availability for housing in the borough, known as the Strategic Housing and Economic Land Availability Assessment, is updated. This stage will now incorporate an update to the brownfield land register to ensure the register is updated on at least an annual basis. For example, this may include removing permissions that have been implemented over the previous monitoring year, or adding planning permissions on new brownfield sites granted during the monitoring year that meet the criteria.

GIS Data

The sites are also available as a GIS Shapefile, under the Open Government Licence (Ordnance Survey derived data), via the data.gov.uk website: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/ab455b9d-c2f2-4415-b85e-baa5c7e7d75d/tameside-brownfield-land-register