Housing Land Audit

The Highland Council has a key role to ensure that there is an effective supply of land to meet housing requirements for at least five years at any one time.  The Council’s Housing Land Audit has been prepared to provide a comprehensive description of all current sites for housing within Highland at 31 December 2006.

The key findings of the Audit are:

• there is an effective land supply of 13,329 housing units in Highland for the five years between 2007 and 2011;
• there was an increase of 25.6% in the number of new dwellings completed in 2006 (1,688) compared with 2005 (1,344); and
• there will be continued engagement with Scottish Water and others to ensure that lack of infrastructure does not hold up housing and other developments.

A Briefing Note has been prepared on the Housing Land Audit and is available by clicking the link below:

Briefing Note 24 - Housing Land Audit 2006 (pdf 533kb).

Detailed schedules of sites allocated for housing within Local Plans have been produced. These schedules are listed by settlement and contain site details, capacities, mapping, likely build rates of development on each site and identify constraints holding up development. The schedules, along with a full description of the information contained within the schedules, can be viewed via the links below:

• Schedules for sites allocated for housing;
• Description of information within schedules (pdf 537kb).