‘use old sites for homes’

NHF, said: “One of the barriers to building homes is sourcing suitable, available, affordable land in the right areas.

“Looking at brownfield land is a good place to start but even then it’s not always easy to locate where it exists and where the most appropriate new sites are to suit your organisation’s development programmes.

“This is why we have collated and mapped all individual brownfield registers that local authorities in England have been required to publish since 2017. We’re hoping that this map will be a useful resource for housing associations to identify new sites for building more homes but also for anyone interested in planning and housing.”

Of the sites identified, 12pc are in public ownership, 61.5pc are not in public ownership, and there is 22.4pc where ownership is unknown.

More than half (57pc) of brownfield sites have permission for development, 38pc don’t and in 4pc of cases a planning decision is pending.

Most brownfield land is located outside green belt land. However, there are 540 brownfield sites that are on green belt land with a development potential of around 25,000 additional homes.

The National Federation of Builders (NFB) said the map had the potential to help tackle the housing crisis, when applied on a wider scale, but cautioned against assuming it shows nearly a million homes could be delivered.

It pointed out that only a small proportion of sites were publicly owned.

Kirklees Council’s Local Plan is a housing and industry development strategy for the borough until 2031. It has been created in order to facilitate the construction of 30,000 homes.

It has identified 200 sites across Kirklees that could provide homes or business premises. Some sites have been earmarked as mixed use. The sites are owned both by the council and by private land owners.

Kirklees Council was approached to comment.