Hartlepool Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across Hartlepool.

Dates and decisions to watch

Figures in this briefing cover different programmes, geographies and periods. They should not be added into a single borough investment total.

The funding landscape

Up to £46 billion over ten years

Homes England and its subsidiary, the National Housing Bank, have up to £46 billion to deploy across England to 2036. These are the principal streams. [1]

The joint Investment Prospectus, published 31 March 2026 ahead of the Bank's opening on 1 April, brings grant, land and finance into one framework. The Bank aims to attract more than £50 billion of additional private capital over the decade. [1]

*Subject to final confirmation. These are programme envelopes, not a ring-fenced allocation to Hartlepool.

Programme milestones

Grant, land and finance (products and routes)

Which support fits a scheme depends less on its size than on what is holding it up: a funding gap, a difficult site, or the tenure of the homes to be delivered. [1]

Two grant routes for Hartlepool. Land and remediation grant is expected to come first through TVCA's Brownfield Housing Fund. Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant remains administered nationally by Homes England and is not devolved to TVCA, which has no integrated settlement. [1,2; see regions/tees-valley.md]

Regional routes: Tees Valley

Regional routes: see regions/tees-valley.md for the Combined Authority's Brownfield Housing Fund, the SAHP first-wave regional position (no Tees Valley figure), the Hartlepool Development Corporation, the Investment Zone and the regional skills offer.

Tees Valley is not an established mayoral strategic authority and has no integrated settlement; SAHP strategic priorities are Homes England's national ones, not a Tees Valley mayoral standard. [see regions/tees-valley.md, sources 5,9]

Hartlepool's Waterfront / Marina scheme (Jomast, delivery partner Persimmon Homes) sits partly on Development Corporation land and is the borough's largest live housing project. [8,9]

Who decides what (decisions and public contacts)

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank — Final SAHP funding and contractual decisions. [1,18]
2. Tees Valley Combined Authority — Brownfield Housing Fund; Investment Zone; no integrated settlement. [see regions/tees-valley.md]
3. Hartlepool Development Corporation — Local planning authority for Oakesway, Queens Meadow, Mill House Leisure Centre, Middleton Grange Shopping Centre and public realm/civic land; chaired via TVCA structures. [7]
4. Hartlepool Borough Council — Local housing need, planning authority outside the HDC boundary, council land and its own new-build/acquisition programme; accountable body for Pride in Place. [3,11]
5. The Hartlepool Board — Independently chaired by Malcolm Walker; meets monthly; local residents, businesses, strategic partners and borough representatives shape Pride in Place funding decisions. [3]
6. Development and delivery partners — Jomast / Persimmon Homes (Waterfront/Marina); Persimmon Homes Teesside (Hart South West Extension / Greatham Meadow); Thirteen Housing Group; Karbon Homes with Gus Robinson Developments (Greatham). [8,9,10,15,16]

Public routes for the next conversation

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, whether it sits inside the HDC boundary, proposed use, delivery lead, funding gap and next decision.

Accessing programme grant: a route for smaller providers

• Continuous Market Engagement — Open for individual schemes and portfolios while funding remains available; designed to accommodate smaller partners, new entrants and complex projects. [19]
• Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations. The initial bidding round closed 15 April 2026; future rounds to be announced. [18]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. [19] Because Tees Valley is not an established mayoral strategic authority, no regional strategic-priorities document applies to Hartlepool as it does in Greater Manchester or West Yorkshire; Homes England's national priorities apply instead. [21; see regions/tees-valley.md]

Hartlepool's adopted Local Plan (May 2018, covering 2016–2031) sets a baseline delivery target of 400 dwellings a year, above the Objectively Assessed Need of 287 dwellings a year. Recorded delivery in 2023/24 was 585 net dwellings (579 new-build, 6 change of use), above the baseline target. [11,12] The council states existing permissions cover around 3,900 of an estimated 6,000-home need across the plan period; the source and date of the 6,000 figure were not independently retrieved for this brief — not verified. [10]

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Hartlepool Waterfront / Marina — up to 650 homes, £120m

Jomast (landowner/developer) with Persimmon Homes as delivery partner is bringing forward up to 650 homes — around 240 houses and 410 apartments — across brownfield sites off Maritime Avenue near Hartlepool railway station and off Slake Terrace at Hartlepool Marina, alongside retail, leisure and medical facilities. Backed by the Hartlepool Development Corporation board. Construction reported under way; the scheme is expected to support around 410 jobs including apprenticeships. Overall scheme value £120m; phasing and full completion date not verified in the sources checked. [8,9]

Hart South West Extension (Greatham Meadow) — 1,260 homes, first phase 316

Persimmon Homes Teesside has a hybrid consent for 1,260 homes on the South West Extension; the first phase comprises 316 properties, of which 26 are affordable (9 affordable rent, 17 discount market value). Hartlepool Borough Council has separately purchased 9 of the Persimmon-built homes on the Greatham Meadow part of the site to add to its own affordable stock. [10,17]

Greatham affordable scheme — 36 homes, Karbon Homes

Karbon Homes, working with local partner Gus Robinson Developments and specialist contractor Applebridge, delivered 36 affordable homes (seven bungalows for Affordable Rent plus a mix of two, three and four-bed houses for Rent to Buy) at Greatham on Hartlepool's outskirts, using insulated concrete formwork construction. Scheme cost reported at c.£6m. Karbon Homes is a confirmed first-wave SAHP strategic partner (2,533 homes / £350.0m nationally). [2,16]

Thirteen Housing Group — no live Hartlepool new-build site listed

Thirteen (2,750 homes / £349.2m in the national first-wave SAHP table, headquartered at Hudson Quay, Middlesbrough) is Hartlepool's largest social landlord, but has no live new-build site in Hartlepool on its own "homes in development" listing. Checked directly on 19 September 2026: the Hartlepool URL resolves to a single England-wide page listing three sites only — Hillside Gardens, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough (296 homes); Amberley and Harrogate, Sunderland (96); and Westgate, Cleckheaton (180). The Karbon scheme at Greatham above is the confirmed first-wave-partner delivery in the borough. [2,15]

Not reconciled with the above

These are scheme-level figures. They should not be summed with the Local Plan's 400 dwellings-a-year baseline target or with the reported (not verified) 6,000-home estimated need, which already contain future supply from these and other sites. [11,12]

Pride in Place: one neighbourhood, phase 1

Hartlepool has one borough-wide Pride in Place award, not multiple neighbourhood boards as in some other boroughs: up to £20 million over ten years (75% capital, 25% revenue), from April 2026. [3]

Governance sits with the Hartlepool Board, independently chaired by Malcolm Walker, meeting monthly; membership brings together local residents, businesses, key strategic partners and other borough representatives. [3] The council states Hartlepool has received more national regeneration funding per head than any other place in England over the ten years since the EU referendum, channelled through the Shared Prosperity Fund, the Levelling Up Fund, the Town Deal and Pride in Place — not verified as a ranked national comparison; quoted as the council's own framing. [14]

Hartlepool appears in neither the phase 2 methodology note (160 boards, September 2025) nor the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note (40 boards plus Wales) — both checked directly on 19 September 2026. It was selected in phase 1 only, so no second Hartlepool neighbourhood is expected from either later list, and neither the 30 November 2026 nor the 26 February 2027 plan deadline applies here. [32]

Pride in Place Impact Fund — £750,000 in each of two years

Hartlepool appears at £750,000 in Annex A of both determinations — 2025/26 and 2026/27. Both annexes were parsed directly from the GOV.UK pages on 19 September 2026: each lists 94 authorities, from Ashfield to Wrexham, 93 of them at £750,000 and one (Bridgend) at £1,500,000. Hartlepool and Middlesbrough are the only Tees Valley authorities in either list; Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland and Darlington are absent from both. [5,6,31]

Do not add this to the ten-year £20m Pride in Place award — the Impact Fund is separate money with its own annual allocation and no published target wards within Hartlepool. [5,6]

Bring a project that can be delivered

• Need, ownership and consent — Who benefits, land control, delivery lead, consents and dependencies.
• Capital and continuing costs — Works, contingency, asset owner, operating budget and maintenance.

National delivery guidance requires each board to have at least eight members, with at least 51% living or working locally. [29,30]

Local investment and project calls: different pots, different decisions

Do not add these figures together. They are different programmes, geographies and periods.

Homes, partners and local need

The Local Plan number

The Hartlepool Local Plan, adopted 22 May 2018, covers 1 April 2016 to 31 March 2031 and sets a baseline delivery target of 400 dwellings a year, above the Objectively Assessed Need of 287 dwellings a year. [11] The 2023/24 Annual Monitoring Report records net delivery of 585 dwellings (579 new-build, 6 change of use) — above the baseline target. [12] A council review is reported to state existing permissions cover around 3,900 of an estimated 6,000 homes needed across the plan period; the primary document for the 6,000 figure was not retrieved for this brief — not verified. [10]

Housing register and homelessness

No current Hartlepool housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures were retrieved for this brief — open; re-search recommended against the council's own housing pages.

Named local delivery

These are examples of local activity, not a complete provider list or evidence of a Hartlepool-specific SAHP award. Two of the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners are present in the borough — Karbon Homes, with confirmed new-build delivery at Greatham, and Thirteen, as a major existing landlord without a currently listed Hartlepool new-build site. Both partner totals are national programme envelopes and must not be read as Hartlepool figures. [2,15,16]

Delivery and the supply chain

Finding the actual route to work

Hartlepool Borough Council moved to Open, the North East Procurement Organisation's (NEPO) new e-procurement platform, from 28 October 2024, gradually replacing the legacy NEPO Portal; suppliers register at the Open platform. Confirmed directly from the council's own procurement pages rather than assumed from the regional page, and consistent with the regional page's statement that all five Tees Valley councils are NEPO members. [13; see regions/tees-valley.md]

Above-threshold notices also appear on Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk), the national register under the Procurement Act 2023 regime, and on the Government's central digital platform, an enhanced version of Find a Tender. [13,22]

Procurement enquiries: procurement@hartlepool.gov.uk, 01429 523009. [13] The council's contract register and archived contract/tender documents are published separately on its procurement pages. [13]

A funding announcement does not itself create an open invitation to tender: at the Waterfront/Marina scheme, Jomast and Persimmon are already engaged as delivery partners, and supply-chain work there flows through that partner relationship rather than a fresh council tender.

Skills and delivery capacity

Hartlepool College of Further Education delivers Construction provision, including a C&G Level 1 Certificate/Diploma in Construction Skills (a multi-skilled route into the industry, also offered as a pre-16 taster), plus pathways into site carpentry and carpentry & joinery. The college's construction workshops were rebuilt as part of a transformation delivered with be:ONE partners. [26]

There is no Construction Technical Excellence College in the Tees Valley; the nearest is City of Sunderland College, c.30–40 miles north of Hartlepool. Believe Housing has separately put contractors in touch with Enable Futures and Hartlepool College to create construction-sector entry opportunities, evidencing an existing employer/college route even without CTEC status. [see regions/tees-valley.md, sources 15,16; 27]

Sources

Research checked on 19 September 2026.

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank, Investment Prospectus 2026 · source
2. Homes England / MHCLG, "Homes England and government confirm strategic partners...", 25 August 2026 · source 2a. MHCLG, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", 24 August 2026 — regional funding breakdown covering only the six established mayoral strategic authorities; Tees Valley not covered — https://www.gov.uk/government/news/historic-council-housebuilding-comeback-to-help-families-into-secure-homes
3. Hartlepool Borough Council, Pride in Place · source
4. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 1: place selection methodology note ("North East | Hartlepool | Hartlepool") · source
5. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025–26 · source
6. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026–27 (Annex A: Hartlepool £750,000) · source
7. Tees Valley Combined Authority, Hartlepool Development Corporation · source
8. Tees Valley Combined Authority, "£120m housing and commercial project planned for Hartlepool waterfront" · source
9. Tees Valley Combined Authority, "Work begins on transformational £120m Hartlepool housing development" · source
10. Hartlepool Mail, reporting on the South West Extension / Greatham Meadow (1,260 homes consented; council purchase of 9 Persimmon units; c.6,000-home need context — press; not independently verified against a primary planning document) · source · source
11. Hartlepool Borough Council, Local plan and planning policy (adopted 22 May 2018; 400 dwellings/year baseline; OAN 287/year) · source
12. Hartlepool Borough Council, Annual Monitoring Report 2023–2024 (585 net dwellings) · source
13. Hartlepool Borough Council, Procurement — Useful supplier information (Open platform, live from 28 October 2024) and procurement approach pages · source · source
14. Hartlepool Borough Council / press, funding-per-head framing across Shared Prosperity Fund, Levelling Up Fund, Town Deal and Pride in Place — council's own framing, not verified as a ranked national comparison · source
15. Thirteen Housing Group, Homes in development (Hartlepool) · source
16. Karbon Homes / Housing Digital, Greatham affordable homes (36 homes, c.£6m, with Gus Robinson Developments and Applebridge) · source
17. Hartlepool Borough Council, Persimmon Homes South West Extension examination document (matter 10) · source
18. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding as a strategic partnership · source
19. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding using the CME route · source
20. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036 guidance · source
21. Homes England, SAHP 2026–2036: strategic priorities in established mayoral strategic authority areas (Tees Valley not included) · source
22. Find a Tender service · source
23. Hartlepool Borough Council, Town Deal · source
24. Hartlepool Mail, "Hartlepool awarded £20m of Levelling Up money to fund town priorities" · source
25. Invest in Hartlepool, "Hartlepool bids for cash from Government's Levelling Up Fund" · source
26. Hartlepool College of Further Education, Construction (16–18) · source
27. Believe Housing, news referencing Enable Futures and Hartlepool College construction-entry routes (via search aggregation; primary Believe Housing article URL not independently retrieved — not verified) · source
28. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme delivery guidance · source
29. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme prospectus · source
30. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations, Annex A tables parsed in full, 19 September 2026 — 94 authorities per determination (93 at £750,000, Bridgend at £1,500,000); Hartlepool £750,000 in both years · source and source
31. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme: phase 2 methodology note (160 boards, September 2025) and phase 2 expansion place selection methodology note (40 boards plus Wales, 20 March 2026) — Hartlepool appears in neither · source and source

For the regional routes ("in regions/tees-valley.md"), see the full numbered source list in that page's own Sources section.

Research notes

Verified from primary or council sources

• Hartlepool's Pride in Place status checked directly against the primary GOV.UK phase 1 methodology note ("North East | Hartlepool | Hartlepool"); no plan deadline applies. [4]
• Hartlepool's £20m ten-year Pride in Place award, Board chair (Malcolm Walker), governance and approval timeline (finalised November 2025, approved April 2026) read from the council's own Pride in Place page. [3]
• Pride in Place Impact Fund 2026/27 figure (£750,000) read directly from Annex A of the primary GOV.UK determination. [6]
• Hartlepool Development Corporation's establishment date, planning-authority status, boundary and contact emails read from the TVCA HDC page. [7]
• Open (NEPO) as Hartlepool's procurement platform, live from 28 October 2024, confirmed from the council's own procurement pages. [13]
• Local Plan baseline (400 dwellings/year, OAN 287/year, adopted 22 May 2018) and 2023/24 delivery (585 net dwellings) read from the council's own Local Plan and AMR pages. [11,12]
• Two first-wave SAHP strategic partners — Thirteen and Karbon Homes — confirmed with documented Hartlepool-area delivery, cross-checked against the national partner table. [2,15,16]

Not verified / press only

• The Waterfront/Marina scheme's full phasing and completion date; the £120m total is consistent across TVCA and press sources but no single completion date was confirmed.
• The South West Extension's reported "6,000 homes needed" borough estimate and the "3,900 already permissioned" figure rest on press reporting, not a primary planning document retrieved for this brief.
• The Town Deal figure (£25m) and the second Levelling Up figure (£16.4m, 131 jobs) rest on press and council-news framing rather than a primary MHCLG/DLUHC award letter.
• The council's "most funding per head in England" framing is the council's own claim, not independently verified against a national dataset.
• Believe Housing's construction-skills link with Hartlepool College [27] could not be traced to a primary article URL within the research budget for this brief.

Open items

• ~~The 2025/26 Impact Fund Annex A entry for Hartlepool was not independently re-fetched~~ — closed by the verifier pass below on 19 September 2026: both annexes were parsed directly; Hartlepool is at £750,000 in each year. [31]
• Whether Hartlepool appears in the phase 2 or phase 2 expansion Pride in Place methodology notes was not independently cross-checked (expected no, since already selected in phase 1).
• A current Hartlepool housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures were not found.
• No Hartlepool-specific TVCA Brownfield Housing Fund award was identified in the sources checked; see the regional page for the fund's overall Round 4 position.
• Thirteen's specific Hartlepool site names, unit numbers and tenure mix were not itemised from its "homes in development" page within the time available.
• UK Shared Prosperity Fund successor position for Hartlepool in 2026/27 remains open.

Blocked or thin URLs

• No direct HTTP failures were logged during this research session; all primary GOV.UK and council pages fetched via WebFetch/WebSearch returned usable content.

Verifier pass, 19 September 2026:

• Open item closed: the 2025/26 Impact Fund figure. Both determinations were fetched raw and their Annex A tables parsed from the HTML directly. Hartlepool is at £750,000 in both 2025/26 and 2026/27 — the 2025/26 figure is no longer resting on council reporting. Each determination lists 94 authorities, 93 at £750,000 and Bridgend at £1,500,000; Hartlepool and Middlesbrough are the only Tees Valley entries. Press→primary on that line. [31]
• Open item closed: the phase 2 / phase 2 expansion cross-check. Both later lists were read in full. Hartlepool appears in neither, so it is a phase 1 place only and no plan deadline applies — neither 30 November 2026 nor 26 February 2027. The brief no longer carries this as an untested assumption. [32]
• Confirmed: Hartlepool is in phase 1 Part A, the initial 55 places of October 2023, named in the methodology note's own table as "North East | Hartlepool | Hartlepool". The council's account of a plan finalised November 2025 and approved April 2026 is consistent with the national position that all 75 phase 1 plans were submitted by 28 November 2025 and have been approved, with delivery funding released from April 2026.
• Corrected (material): Thirteen's Hartlepool pipeline. The brief said Thirteen "publishes a dedicated 'Homes in development' page for Hartlepool, confirming active local delivery." It does not. Checked directly: every borough-specific URL on Thirteen's site resolves to one England-wide page listing three sites — Hillside Gardens, Grove Hill, Middlesbrough (296); Amberley and Harrogate, Sunderland (96); Westgate, Cleckheaton (180). None is in Hartlepool. Thirteen remains a major existing landlord here, but a reader should not infer a live Hartlepool development pipeline from that page. The named-delivery table and the first-wave-partner paragraph were both corrected. [15]
• Confirmed unchanged: Karbon Homes (2,533 homes / £350.0m) and Thirteen (2,750 / £349.2m) are both first-wave SAHP strategic partners, read from the release's own table; Karbon's 36-home Greatham scheme with Gus Robinson Developments stands as the confirmed first-wave-partner new-build delivery in the borough. No Tees Valley figure appears in MHCLG's 24 August 2026 regional breakdown, correctly stated here and not marked "not verified". Open (NEPO) confirmed as the procurement platform from the council's own pages.
• Still open, with what was searched: the council's "more national regeneration funding per head than any other place in England" claim, which remains the council's own framing and is not a published ranking; the £16.4m Levelling Up figure and the 131-jobs figure, both still press-sourced; the phasing of the Jomast/Persimmon Waterfront/Marina scheme; whether a Hartlepool-named TVCA Brownfield Housing Fund award exists; any 2026/27 UKSPF successor allocation or open call; Hartlepool Development Corporation's named contact email.

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