Land use in England
This collection brings together all documents relating to land use in England.
These statistics show how different land uses are distributed across England. Land uses are classified across 28 land use categories which are aggregated into 13 land use groups and are split between developed and non-developed land use types.
Explore the data using the ‘Land use statistics’ interactive dashboard.
The department also publishes land use change statistics which present information on new residential addresses and changes in hectarage. ‘Land use change – new residential addresses’ provides information on new residential addresses and the previous land use those addresses were created on. ‘Land use change – hectarage’ provides information on the amount of land changing use from previous use to its new use.
Publications
Guidance and methodology notes
A copy of the land use and land use change technical notes are included within each publication.
Updates to this page
Published 16 July 2020Last updated 24 August 2023 + show all updates
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The experimental Land use in England, 2017 statistics have been brought into this collection.
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Added Land use in England, 2022.
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First published.