Tameside Brownfield Land Register (2026)

The Council has updated and published Part 1 of its Brownfield Land Register for 2026. The register 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[LS2.1]

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.

Guidance on Brownfield Land Registers (2017) and the Brownfield Land Registers Data Standard (2025), 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, often referred to as brownfield land, can be found in Annex 2 (Glossary) of the National Planning Policy Framework (December 2024).

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 accordance with the national guidance and data standards, ensuring that 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 where a site is not already subject to an extant planning permission.

Brownfield Land Register Documents (2026)[LS3.1]

Tameside’s Brownfield Land Register documents are available for download below:

• 2026 Tameside Brownfield Land Register – Methodology and Report
• 2026 Tameside Brownfield Land Register – CSV File
• 2026 Tameside Brownfield Land Register – Interactive Map

GIS Data[LS4.1]
Sites listed on the register are also available as a GIS Shapefile via data.gov.uk under the Open Government Licence: https://data.gov.uk/dataset/ab455b9d-c2f2-4415-b85e-baa5c7e7d75d/tameside-brownfield-land-register