Stockport Brownfield Land Register for Urban Development Planning

Stockport Council's Brownfield Land Register published in December 2020 under UK planning regulations. The dataset is provided by Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council and was last updated on the platform in July 2026. It is available in geospatial (WMS, WFS) and tabular (CSV) formats under an Open Government License.

Use Cases

• Identify potential housing development sites based on registered brownfield land parcels.
• Analyze land availability for urban regeneration projects based on the official council register.
• Support policy compliance and reporting for the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017.
• Map and visualize brownfield sites for strategic planning based on geospatial data formats.

Strengths

• Published under the Open Government License (OGL-UK-3.0), enabling broad reuse.
• Available in multiple interoperable formats including WMS, WFS, and CSV.
• Created by an official local authority, Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council.
• Last platform update recorded as 2026-07-08 13:31:03.893851.

Limitations

• Column names and data schema are unknown, requiring inspection after download.
• The dataset size and row count are unspecified, limiting suitability assessment.
• The description metadata is limited; actual data quality and completeness require manual verification.

Provenance

Source

Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council

Collection Method

Published register in accordance with regulation 18 (2) of the Town and Country Planning (Brownfield Land Register) Regulations 2017.

Time Range

Published December 2020.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-08 13:31:03.893851; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Stockport, United Kingdom.