Blackpool Brownfield Register: Land Parcels for Development

Blackpool Borough Council's Brownfield Register lists land parcels previously developed that are suitable for housing or other development. The dataset is available under an open government license, facilitating reuse for planning analysis. Its presence on multiple open data platforms indicates its established role in local transparency and land-use planning.

Use Cases

• Assessing brownfield land capacity for housing development (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Supporting local planning policy and land-use analysis (inferred from domain, verify after download)
• Mapping potential development sites for investment or regeneration projects (inferred from domain, verify after download)

Strengths

• Licensed under OGL-UK-3.0, enabling open commercial and non-commercial use.
• Published by the authoritative local government body, Blackpool Borough Council.
• Available on multiple open data platforms (UK and EU), suggesting cross-platform validation and accessibility.

Limitations

• Metadata is minimal; actual content requires verification after download. Column names, row counts, and file size are not specified in any source.
• The 'last updated' date of 2026-07-08 appears to be a future date, which is a conflict and suggests potential metadata error.
• The dataset's temporal coverage is explicitly for 2018, which may limit its relevance for current planning without subsequent updates.

Provenance

Source

Blackpool Borough Council

Time Range

2018

Freshness

Last updated date reported as 2026-07-08, but this is a future date and conflicts with the dataset's 2018 title.

Geography

Blackpool, United Kingdom