Find out about our 2024 survey and audit 

We carry out an annual Housing Land Audit to monitor the amount of land available for new housing development and understand how our Housing Land Supply is changing yearly.

This helps us address any housing supply issues in the plan-making process.

The Housing Land Audit identifies housing sites with a capacity of four or more units in North Lanarkshire at the survey base date, 31 March of the audit year. It includes:

• land with planning permission for residential development and sites under construction

• land allocated for residential development in the Adopted Development Plan

• other land with agreed residential potential

North Lanarkshire consists of three Housing Sub-Market Areas (HSMAs):

• Cumbernauld (CN)
• Airdrie/Coatbridge (AC)
• Motherwell (MW)

The data in the 2024 Housing Land Audit is structured by HSMA.

Details of the housing totals and information on sites in the 2024 Housing Land Audit will be updated in due course. Please note the link below provides details on the 2023 Housing Land Audit until its replacement

We have been working with the Improvement Service to produce an interactive map and dashboard showing site programming and detailed information held for each site.

Our Pilot Interactive Housing Land 2024 Map will be provided in due course. The Pilot Interactive Housing Land 2023 Map is available below until its replacement

The Scottish Government provides advice on carrying out Housing Land Audits in Planning Advice Note 2/2010: Affordable Housing and Housing Land Audits and we liaise closely with Homes for Scotland over content of the Audit.

As of 20 January 2025, the Scottish Government has published new Housing Land Audit Guidance. This guidance replaces the Housing Land Audit section of Planning Advice Note 2/2010, reflecting the new legislative and policy context within the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997 (the Act), as amended, and National Planning Framework 4. The next Housing Land Audit for North Lanarkshire will be prepared according to this guidance and methodology