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 2007.
The key findings of the Audit are:
- The finalised Housing Land Audit shows that there is an effective land supply of 17,575 housing units in Highland for the five years between 2008 and 2012.
- There was an increase of 7% in the number of new dwellings completed in 2007 (1,806) compared with 2006 (1,688).
- The Council will continue to engage 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 30 - Housing Land Audit 2007 (pdf 375kb).
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: