Housing and employment

Housing Land Availability Assessment, 2025 Update

The Housing Land Availability Assessment (HLAA) is a technical study that determines the suitability, availability and achievability of land for development of housing. It is updated annually and includes a statement on the Council's Five-Year land supply position.

Further work will be undertaken to update the Authority's housing land evidence to incorporate any additional sites submitted through the Local Plan and call for sites process between August and October 2025.

• Housing Land Mapping 2025 

(please note all sites included here for assessment purposes and made available so information about available land is publicly accessible)

• Housing Land Supply Monitoring 2025
• Housing Land Supply Summary Note 2025 (microsoft word document)

Housing Delivery Test Action Plan

The government publishes a Housing Delivery Test (HDT) on an annual basis to monitor each Local Authorities performance in the delivery of new homes in accordance with housing requirements. Publication of the 2023 Housing Delivery Test identified that over a three year period North Tyneside saw delivery equivalent to 76% of its housing requirement. As a result, the Council was required to prepare a Housing Delivery Test Action Plan for a second year. The original 2024 Housing Delivery Test Action Plan and actions are considered to remain essentially valid. The Council's primary response to continued under delivery of homes has been commencement of a new Local Plan for the Borough - as agreed with publication of a new Local Development Scheme in February 2025 - available here.

Housing Delivery Test Action Plan - June 2024

The North Tyneside Strategic Housing Market assessment (SHMA) enables the Council to think spatially about the nature and influence of its housing markets in respect to its area by:

• Providing a robust evidence on the full housing needs to inform policies aimed at providing the right scale, tenure and mix of housing across the Borough – both market and affordable housing;
• Provide evidence to inform policies about the level of affordable housing required including the need for different sizes of affordable housing.
• Support a strategic approach to housing by considering housing need and demand in all housing sectors – owner occupier, private rented and affordable –and assessment of the key drivers and relationships within the housing market.

Housing Land Availability Assessment, 2025 Update

The Housing Land Availability Assessment (HLAA) is a technical study that determines the suitability, availability and achievability of land for development of housing. It is updated annually and includes a statement on the Council's Five-Year land supply position.

Further work will be undertaken to update the Authorities housing land evidence to incorporate any additional sites submitted through the Local Plan and call for sites process between August and October 2025.

An up-to-date position on the Council's Five-Year supply is published in the 2022 Housing Land Availability Assessment, available below.

• Housing Land Mapping 2025 

(please note all sites included here for assessment purposes and made available so information about available land is publicly accessible)

North Tyneside Council is required to keep a register of individuals and associations of individuals seeking to acquire land to build a home, in accordance with the Self-Build and Custom Housebuilding Act 2015.

Find out more or register your interest.

The document provides an evidence base to enable the Council to comply with its requirements towards Gypsies and Travellers and Travelling Showpeople under the Housing Act 2004, the National Planning Policy Framework 2012 and Planning Policy for Traveller Sites 2012.

This document sets out the broad method applied by the Council to establishing its assessment of area wide viability of future growth outlined in the Local plan.

The Affordable Housing Viability Assessment assesses the likely economic viability of land for housing within the Borough taking into account risks to delivery and the level of finance available for affordable housing, including public subsidy and the level of developer contribution that can reasonably be secured.

Informed by 2014 based Sub-national population projections and household forecasts.

From 1st October, 2015, local authorities have the option to set additional technical requirements exceeding the minimum standards required by Building Regulations in respect of access and water efficiency, and a Nationally Described Space Standard (NDSS). This report sets out the evidence that has been considered in deciding whether to implement the optional standards (in whole or part) through the emerging North Tyneside Local Plan. It should be read in conjunction with the Area Wide Viability Assessment Update June 2016.

The Employment Land Review includes an assessment of the current supply of employment land, investigates future demand for employment land and premises, and identifies any deficiencies in current supply in meeting future needs.