Housing land information
Housing Land Audit
This audit provides information on the available housing land supply to meet aspirations for the delivery of new homes up to 2039 using a base date of 1 April 2024. The audit allows us to:
- monitor the availability of effective sites
- identify the progress of sites through the planning process
- provide analysis on house completions
For each site, information on permissions and completions has been collected and brought together with the likely build rate of development on each site.
Contributions for the audit were requested and received from developers via Homes for Scotland, housing associations, housing trusts and landowners. These comments were considered along with council officers views and the resultant likely programming for each site is contained in the Housing Land Audit 2024.
Details on sites and their programming over financial years 2024 to 2025 to 2038 to 2039 are accessible either through the StoryMap, an interactive map, from a downloadable summary document or from a downloadable .csv file from the Open Data Portal.
The detailed site-level information that makes up the Housing Land Audit is available from the Highland Council Open Map Data Portal as a .csv file (tabular data) or in various map data formats (including site polygons).
The information in this Housing Land Audit 2024 is aligned with the annual School Roll Forecasts and is used to support the relevant Delivery Programmes.
View the Housing Land Audit 2024 StoryMap
Download The Housing Land Audit 2024 Summary Document
The 2023 Housing Land Audit is still available for reference:
View the Housing Land Audit 2023 StoryMap
Download The Housing Land Audit 2023 Summary Document
Housing completions
Regularly updated house completions information is produced in a variety of forms
Map and analytics of houses built
The traditional downloadable spreadsheet reporting monthly completions is also available
Housing Need and Demand Assessment (HNDA) 2020
The Highland Council HNDA received a "Robust and Credible" assessment from the Centre for Housing Market Analysis on 8 February 2022.
The HNDA estimates the future number of additional housing units to meet existing and future housing needs and demand. It also captures information on the operation of the housing system to assist local authorities in developing policies on new housing supply, management of existing stock and the provision of housing-related services.
Its purpose is to provide a robust, shared and agreed evidence-base for housing policy and land use planning and to ensure that both LHSs and Development Plans are based upon a common understanding of existing and future housing requirements.
The Highland Housing Market Partnership (HMP), who oversee the development and production of this document, have signed off on the second submission of the Highland Council Area HNDA. This was provided to the Scottish Government Centre for Housing Market Analysis (CHMA) in November 2021. We are currently awaiting the result of this assessment.
This latest HNDA is informing the preparation of the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan, which is under review.
The documents that make up the HNDA are the report itself and accompanying supporting papers, and can be downloaded below:
- CHMA Response to HNDA 3rd Submission February 2022
- HNDA Third Submission December 2021
- Paper 1 - Backlog Definition 2020
- Paper 2 - In Year Arising Need
- Paper 3 - HNDA Tool Run Log
- Paper 4 - Sensitivity and Scenario Analysis
- Paper 6 - Rental Costs, House Prices and Affordability
- Paper 7 - Accessible Specialist Housing
- Paper 8 - Badenoch and Strathspey Housing Needs Survey December 2021
- Paper 9 - Lochaber Housing Needs December 2021