Every local planning authority maintains a brownfield land register. This is a register of previously developed land which is suitable for residential development.

The brownfield land register doesn't show every area of brownfield land in the borough; it provides an up-to-date and publicly available standard set of information about brownfield land which is suitable for housing.

The key sources of the sites included in the register are:

• residential planning permissions
• lapsed planning permissions
• brownfield Local Plan (2019) housing sites
• brownfield Local Plan (2019) mixed use sites, including Barnsley town centre development sites
• appropriate small sites that have been submitted to us during the preparation of the Local Plan

Our brownfield land register was last reviewed in October 2024.

Parts of the register

The register has two parts:

• Part 1 of the brownfield land register is a list of brownfield sites in our local authority area that are suitable for housing, irrespective of their planning status. For each site record you can see when the information was last updated. The location of each site can be found on the map below.
  
  
• Part 2 of the brownfield land register contains a list of sites from part 1 that we consider should be granted planning permission in principle. Before a site can be granted permission in principle and included in part 2, we follow the relevant consultation and publicity procedures. Currently there are no sites entered in part 2 of the register.

More information

The definition of what constitutes brownfield (or previously developed land) can be found in Annex 2 of the National Planning Policy Framework.

Visit GOV.UK for more information about brownfield registers and permission in principle.