Housing Land Audit
1 April 2018 - 31 March 2019
Introduction
This is our storymap presentation of North Ayrshire's 2019 Housing Land Audit. It provides a snapshot of the housing land supply as of 1 April 2019.
The Housing Land Audit monitors housing sites with a capacity of four or more new houses and identifies and quantifies the land available for housing in North Ayrshire.
You can explore the housing sites in North Ayrshire now by clicking on, zooming-in, and moving around the map opposite (hold the shift key and drag a box with the left mouse button to zoom in on a specific area). The home symbol will take you back to the original view and the + and - symbols zoom in and out. If you hover over the white circle at the bottom left a legend will appear.
The housing sites that make up our established supply are shown with a brown outline and shaded light brown. Sites that were completed in the year 2018-19 are shown outlined in green.
Clicking on each site will 'pop-up' information about that site including the reference we have allocated it, the site’s capacity, whether the site is currently active, the number of houses completed and future programming.
For an overall picture and a list of all individual sites within the housing land supply, then look at the Housing Land Audit 2018/19 Update
Headlines
Completions levels are up on last year to 410 new homes (222 private sector and 188 public sector) demonstrating a dramatic upturn in market conditions and confidence within the North Ayrshire housing market. This is much closer to post-2008 recession levels.
There were 30 active sites, 7 sites were completed and there have been 4 new sites added to the supply accounting for a potential 120 new homes.
All seven completed sites were delivered by the public sector as part of North Ayrshire Council’s Strategic Housing Investment Programme (SHIP).
There was a total of 164 sites as of 1 April, and 78 of these are considered effective and will deliver new homes in the next 5 years. A full list of the sites included in the Housing Land Audit can be accessed here.
The chart below shows where the completions occurred by Housing Sub Market Area. Click on the chart to expand.
Programming
In the 2017/2018 Housing Land Audit we programmed, based on market intelligence and HLA data analysis, 363 units would be completed in the 2018/2019 period. The fact the number of units build went beyond this to 410 completions demonstrates the hard work and success of the collaborative input of both the public and private sectors to boost housing delivery.
Due to the time lapsed between the end of the audit year (31 March 2019) and the completion of the audit, we have not sought to agree our programming with the housing industry and Homes for Scotland. Our draft programming, however, based on our knowledge of active sites within the HLA, anticipates the delivery of 2491 new homes over the five years from March 2019.
The following chart shows the number of houses expected to be built in each of those years. Click on the chart to expand.
The Long Term Picture
The graph opposite uses an overview of housing completions in North Ayrshire over the last 12 years, split by private and public (Council and Housing Associations) development. The figures are derived from Building Warrant completions (2007-2016) or the Housing Land Audit (2016-2019). The graph illustrates the scale of social housing development during 2018/19 was higher than any of the previous 11 years and that private sector housebuilding more than doubled compared to the previous year.
