Housing Land Audit
This audit provides information on the available housing land supply to meet the target of delivering new homes up to 2040, with 1 April 2025 as the baseline date. It allows us to:
- monitor the availability of effective sites
- identify the progress of sites through the planning process
- provide analysis on house completions
Data on each site, including planning permissions, completions, expected build rates, owner or developer information, and remaining capacity, has been collected and combined.
Contributions were gathered from developers through Homes for Scotland, housing associations, trusts, and landowners, and considered alongside council officers’ views. The projected programme for each site is detailed in the Housing Land Audit 2025.
Details on sites and their programming schedules from 2025/2026 to 2039/2040 are available in multiple forms:
- Descriptively or interactively through the Story Map including an interactive Housing Sites Map
- Through this downloadable summary document.
- A prepared MS Excel spreadsheet (Housing Land Audit Output 2025) containing tabs showing all sites, and separate tabs for those in the Development Pipeline, Completed Sites, Removed Sites, Very Long Development Pipeline (11 to 15 years) and other Non-Pipeline Sites
- Data can be downloaded from the Highland Council Open Map Data Portal as a CSV file or in various map data formats including the site polygons
The data in this Housing Land Audit 2025 aligns with the annual School Roll Forecasts and supports relevant Delivery Programmes.
Previous audits
- View Housing Land Audit 2024 StoryMap
- View 2024 Interactive Map
- Download Summary Document
- Download Sites Table
Housing completions
Information on house completions, updated regularly, is available in various formats:
Data on House Completions used in this dashboard Is available from the Highland Council Open Data Portal. The dataset is named "House Completions LATEST" and can be downloaded in a range of formats.