Bluepencil UK Housebuilding Calculator
UK Housebuilding Calculator
An essential tool for masterplanners, house builders and local authorities — test land use, density and parking in real time, from Gross Site Area through to Parking.
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Land Use Allocation

Each category total below is the sum of its own detail tab. Residential is always the remainder of the Gross Site Area and cannot be edited directly.
Land UseHectares% of Gross

Housing Mix, Area & Density

Set a target number of dwellings, then edit the mix per typology by units or by percentage — the two stay in sync. Density is editable per row; land required and overall density update as you go, checked against the Net Residential Area carried through from Land Use Allocation.
0.00 haNet Residential Area
0Overall Density (dw/ha)
TypologyStoreysDensity (dw/ha)Units% of TargetLand Required (ha)
Total00%0.00 ha

Parking Requirement

Derived automatically from the unit mix above. 1 bed = 1 space, 2 bed = 2 spaces, 3 bed = 2 spaces, 4+ bed = 3 spaces per dwelling, plus 0.25 visitor spaces per dwelling added after totalling.
TypologyUnitsSpaces / UnitSpaces
Resident Spaces Subtotal0
Visitor Spaces (0.25 × dwellings)0
Total Parking Spaces0

Commercial Mix & Area

Full breakdown of Use Class E sub-classes, plus B2 (general industrial) and B8 (storage & distribution). Enter GIA per class — land, car and cycle requirements are derived from the standard for each row (editable). Rows flagged placeholder are using a single interim figure across all of E until class-specific figures are supplied.
Use ClassGIA (sqm)StoreysLand Required (ha)Car SpacesCycle Spaces
Total0.00 ha00
Standard shown per row is expressed as ha / car / cycle per sqm GIA — edit any of these to override the default.

Education

Split by Primary and Secondary provision.
CategoryHectares
Primary School
Secondary School
Total0.00 ha

Landscape

Defaults to 30% of Gross Site Area. Switch to a detailed breakdown across the six sub-categories below (Children & Youth Play Space further split into LAP / LEAP / NEAP) — entering any figure switches over automatically.
0.00 haLandscape Total
30.0%of Gross Site Area
CategoryHectares
Amenity Green Space
Parks and Gardens
— Play Space: LAP
— Play Space: LEAP
— Play Space: NEAP
Natural & Semi-Natural Grassland
Linear Spaces / Green Corridors
Civic / Hard Landscaped Space
Detailed Total0.00 ha

Infrastructure

Spine + primary roads (and associated footways / cyclepaths / swales, plus footpaths / bridleways / PROW passing through the site outside the net residential area). Defaults to 15% of Gross Site Area — enter a measured area to override; the % recalculates from it.
15.0%of Gross Site Area

SuDS

Sustainable Drainage Systems — attenuation basins, swales, ponds and associated buffer. Defaults to 10% of Gross Site Area — enter a measured area to override; the % recalculates from it.
10.0%of Gross Site Area

Other Uses

Care Home and Leisure Centre carry defaults from the Density Manual; add further facilities as needed (no default — user-entered).
FacilityHectares
Total0.00 ha