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Publication, Part of

NHS Surplus Land, Apr-Sep 2025/26

Official statistics, Experimental statistics

Publication Date:
11 Dec 2025
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. From 2025/26, the collection has moved from quarterly to bi-annual.

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 30th September 2025:

88 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. 117 trusts declared they currently had no currently surplus land.

158 plots

of the total 535 entries (includes the 117 nil returns) 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 153.03 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 597,189 square metres.

260 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.

  • 218 potentially surplus land ('opportunities') were identified, covering a total land area of 235.08 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 444,932 square metres.
  • 23 plots were identified as being no longer surplus (but had been previously declared as such). These covered a land area of 42.74 hectares and a gross internal floor area of 134,037 square metres.
  • 19 plots had already been sold (with a disposal year of 2024/25 onwards) covering a land of 6.21 hectares and gross internal floor area of 22,137 square metres.

£20.41 million pounds

was declared as the total sales receipt for land sold.

  • The estimated sales receipt for surplus or potentially surplus land was £717.47 million pounds. The investment required to dispose of this land would be £1.36 billion pounds.

269 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: 11 December 2025 9:55 am