North Tyneside Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across North Shields, Wallsend and the wider borough of North Tyneside.

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 on 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.

*The prospectus describes the agency's share as £3.1bn, subject to final confirmation. These are programme envelopes, not a ring-fenced allocation to North Tyneside.

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 routes in the North East. Land, infrastructure and brownfield remediation money is more likely to come through NECA's own Brownfield Housing Fund and its integrated settlement. Social and Affordable Homes Programme grant remains administered by Homes England and is not devolved to NECA. The National Housing Bank makes its own finance decisions while working alongside the agency. [1,5 in regions/north-east.md]

Regional routes: North East

Regional routes: see regions/north-east.md for the North East Combined Authority's devolved housing and land funds, the integrated settlement, the Mayoral Development Zones, the SAHP first-wave regional estimate and the regional skills offer.

NECA has used Mayoral Development Zones rather than statutory Mayoral Development Corporations. Neither of the two announced zones (Newcastle & Gateshead riverside; Durham City) covers North Tyneside. [10,11 in regions/north-east.md] For a North Tyneside scheme, the first conversation depends on the funding gap; a regional headline figure is not a borough award.

Who decides what (decisions and public contacts)

1. Homes England / National Housing Bank — Final SAHP funding and contractual decisions; the Bank assesses its finance investments. [1,18]
2. North East Combined Authority (NECA) — Regional priorities, tenure mix and strategic priorities for SAHP; Mayor's Brownfield Housing Fund; the Plan for Homes pipeline; the integrated settlement. [1,5,9 in regions/north-east.md]
3. North Tyneside Council — Local housing need, planning authority, council land and its own new-build programme; accountable body for Pride in Place across Percy Main, Chirton and North Shields. [7,8,9]
4. Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board (Percy Main, Chirton and North Shields) — Chair: Dame Norma Redfearn DBE, former directly-elected Mayor of North Tyneside and former Councillor for Riverside ward, confirmed on the council's own news page; Sir Alan Campbell MP sits on the board as the local MP required by the programme rules. Council accountability and national programme rules still apply. [7,8,9]
5. Development and delivery partners — Karbon Homes (Forest Hall, Unicorn House / North Shields town centre); Bernicia (stock across North Tyneside); Adderstone Living (construction contractor, Unicorn House). [14,15,16]

Public routes for the next conversation

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, 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 on 15 April 2026; future rounds will be announced. [18]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. NECA's strategic priorities for established mayoral strategic authority areas set the shape of a bid: at least 60% Social Rent, economic corridors, Tyne Renaissance riverfront regeneration, town and city centre growth, neighbourhood regeneration, strategic growth areas, and coastal and rural delivery — North Tyneside's coastline and Tyne riverside sit squarely within the coastal and riverfront priorities. [1 in regions/north-east.md]

North Tyneside's adopted Local Plan (2017) set housing requirements rising to 938 dwellings a year by 2021/22; the standard-method local housing need figure is reported at 989 dwellings a year, and the emerging Local Plan (expected adoption early 2028) is reported as planning for around 17,802 homes across 2025–2042 — this later figure comes from council housing-land-supply reporting rather than an adopted plan policy, and should be treated as not verified against the final evidence base. [17]

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Affordable homes pledge — 5,000 homes, two phases

North Tyneside Council has pledged 5,000 new affordable homes: phase one delivering 2,100 more affordable homes (including 350 new council homes) by 2032, taking the cumulative total to around 4,000, with a further 1,000 homes in phase two. Over 2,300 affordable homes have been delivered to date under the programme, with a further 1,700 due to complete phase one. Council new-build target of 350 homes and the phase-two 1,000-home figure are council-reported programme ambitions, not a list of consented or funded schemes — not verified against individual planning consents. [24]

Unicorn House, North Shields town centre — 28 homes

Karbon Homes acquired the former Unicorn House council office site in North Shields town centre in 2024 and delivered 22 three- and four-bed houses and six one- and two-bed apartments for Shared Ownership and Rent to Buy, as part of the council's Ambition for North Shields and the Fish Quay regeneration programme. Adderstone Living led construction. Completed and occupied by 2026. [14,15,16]

Forest Hall — 20 homes

Karbon Homes completed 20 new homes (12 three-bed houses, 8 two-bed apartments) on the former Fusilier pub site in Forest Hall, North Tyneside, for Rent to Buy, announced 17 September 2026. [14]

Marden, North Tyneside — 15 homes

Marden Residents Association secured £131,750 from NECA's Mayor's Brownfield Housing Fund, one of three final allocations announced 24 August 2026, unlocking 15 homes. [6 in regions/north-east.md]

Backworth — homes not verified

Council reporting references a Backworth housing development nearing completion; homes number, developer and tenure were not verified in the sources checked for this brief. [27]

Not reconciled with the above

The homes figures above are scheme-level and should not be summed with the council's 5,000-home affordable-homes pledge, which already covers this and other future supply across the borough. [24]

Pride in Place: Percy Main, Chirton and North Shields

North Tyneside has one Pride in Place neighbourhood, covering parts of Percy Main, Chirton, Meadow Well, East Howdon and the Royal Quays, stretching towards North Shields and Alexandra Scott Park. [7,8,9]

North Tyneside does not appear in MHCLG's phase 1 place-selection methodology note (the 75 original 2023 towns), so no "no plan deadline" neighbourhood exists in the borough. It also does not appear in the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion methodology note (the further 40 boards plus Wales) — the borough's one neighbourhood was already selected in the September 2025 phase 2 cohort, so no second North Tyneside neighbourhood is expected from that list. [30,31,33]

Pride in Place Impact Fund — absent from both Annex A tables

North Tyneside was checked directly against Annex A of both determinations and does not appear in either: not the 2025/26 determination and not the 2026/27 determination. Each annex lists 94 authorities, 93 of them at £750,000 and one (Bridgend) at £1,500,000. Neighbouring Tyneside authorities Gateshead and South Tyneside are both listed at £750,000 a year. This absence is itself a finding, not an oversight in this brief: North Tyneside does not currently have a published Pride in Place Impact Fund allocation. [12,13]

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. [34,35]

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 housing register and stock position

North Tyneside's population is around 215,000 across 98,800 households. Of 96,232 properties recorded at the 2021 Census: 64% owner-occupied, 15% council social rent, 15% private rented, 6% housing association rent and 0.5% shared ownership. Housing register demand is weighted heavily to one-bedroom properties (57% of applicants). Average house price was £193,000 in August 2025 (lower quartile £131,000), an income-to-price ratio of 5.0. Average council social rent is £81.04 a week against £89.26 for registered providers. [28]

The affordable homes pledge

North Tyneside Council's own affordable-homes programme targets 5,000 new affordable homes: phase one (2,100 homes including 350 council-built, by 2032, taking the cumulative total to around 4,000) and phase two (a further 1,000 homes). Over 2,300 have been delivered to date. Not verified against a published scheme-by-scheme delivery plan. [24]

Named local delivery

These are examples of local activity, not a complete provider list or evidence of a new SAHP award. The 33-partner table was read line by line against the RPs named locally. Karbon Homes Limited is in it (£350.0m of grant and 2,533 homes — the per-partner cap) and leads a consortium that, on Karbon's own account, includes Bernicia, believe housing, Durham Aged Miners' Homes Association and Livin; Bernicia does not appear in the table in its own right, so its North Tyneside stock sits inside Karbon's entry rather than beside it. Newcastle City Council is the only other North East entry. The table gives no site or borough breakdown, and Karbon's North Tyneside schemes above (Unicorn House, Forest Hall) predate the 2026–2036 programme. Karbon's £350.0m and 2,533 homes are the consortium's whole programme figure and must not be read as a North Tyneside figure. [2,14,36]

Housing register and homelessness

No current housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures for North Tyneside were found in the sources checked — open. [28]

Delivery and the supply chain

Finding the actual route to work

North Tyneside Council's own procurement page names NEPO (the North East Procurement Organisation, nepo.org) as its main e-tendering portal, with contracts also advertised on the Open portal (open-uk.org) — consistent with the regional page's statement that the North East's twelve local authorities, including North Tyneside, use NEPO/Open rather than The Chest. Registration is free. Contracts over £30,000 also appear on Contracts Finder. [22]

Above-threshold notices also appear on Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk), the national register under the Procurement Act 2023 regime. [21]

The council's Business Factory delivers "Tendering for Beginners" workshops and one-to-one procurement support, plus guidance on North Tyneside's own Dynamic Purchasing System. [22]

Skills and delivery capacity

North Tyneside's nearest dedicated construction skills provider was not verified as a named college in the sources checked for this brief; the borough sits within reach of Newcastle and South Tyneside further-education construction provision, but no North Tyneside-specific college construction course page was retrieved — open.

The region's Construction Technical Excellence College is Sunderland College, named on 12 August 2025 as one of ten Construction Technical Excellence Colleges selected by the Department for Education, based at the Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy (HICSA) at Riverside Sunderland, working hub-and-spoke with regional colleges. Whether North Tyneside College is a named spoke is not verified; see regions/north-east.md for the full regional list (Derwentside, East Durham, Northumberland, Tyne Coast, the Education Training Collective colleges and Hartlepool Sixth Form). [16 in regions/north-east.md]

Sources

Research checked on 19 September 2026. Trade and local press is marked; everything else is a primary source.

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
3. Place North East (trade press), "North East brownfield fund passes 4,000-home milestone", 24 August 2026 (Marden Residents Association, £131,750, 15 homes) · source
4. North Tyneside Council, "Percy Main set for £20m in funding over 10 years" · source
5. Northumberland Gazette (press), "Council decision set to pave way for £20m government grants for parts of North Tyneside" · source
6. Our North Tyneside Voice, Pride in Place hub page · source
7. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025–26 (North Tyneside checked directly, absent from Annex A) · source
8. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026–27 (North Tyneside checked directly, absent from Annex A) · source
9. Bdaily (trade press), "Karbon completes 20-home Forest Hall scheme", 17 September 2026 · source
10. Karbon Homes, "Spring construction start for new homes in North Shields town centre" · source
11. North Tyneside Council, "Unicorn House: Spring construction start for new North Shields town centre affordable homes" · source ; Bernicia, North Tyneside · source
12. North Tyneside Council, Tenancy Strategy 2026–2029: strategic context · source ; Tynemouth News, "North Tyneside Local Plan" (17,802 homes 2025–2042 figure; press summary of council reporting, not verified against the adopted plan) · source
13. Homes England, SAHP 2026–2036 guidance · source
14. Homes England, SAHP Continuous Market Engagement route · source
15. Homes England, SAHP Strategic Partnership route · source
16. Find a Tender service · source
17. North Tyneside Council, "Register with us" (procurement, NEPO) · source ; NEPO Open · source
18. North Tyneside Council (press summary), "Council doubles down on affordable housing delivery — pledging to build a thousand more homes" · source
19. North Tyneside Council, "UK Shared Prosperity Fund: three grant schemes announced in North Tyneside" · source
20. House of Commons Library, "Local growth funds" (UKSPF and predecessor match-funding context; general, not North Tyneside-specific) · source
21. North Tyneside Council (legacy site), "Backworth housing development nears completion" · source
22. North Tyneside Council, Tenancy Strategy 2026–2029: North Tyneside key facts · source
23. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2: place selection methodology note · source
24. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 1: place selection methodology note · source
25. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion: place selection methodology note, 20 March 2026 (no North Tyneside entry) · source
26. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme delivery guidance · source
27. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme prospectus · source
28. Karbon Homes, North East housing providers form partnership to help deliver more social homes across the region (Karbon-led SAHP 2026–36 strategic partnership consortium with believe housing, Bernicia, Durham Aged Miners' Homes Association and Livin, sharing £350m / 2,533 homes) · source

For the regional routes ("in regions/north-east.md"), see the full numbered source list in that page's own Sources section (sources 1–25).

Research notes

Verified from primary or council sources

• North Tyneside's one Pride in Place neighbourhood (Percy Main, Chirton and North Shields) checked directly against the primary GOV.UK lists: confirmed phase 2 (phase 2 methodology note); absent from the phase 1 note; absent from the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note (already selected in phase 2, so no second neighbourhood expected). [30,31,33]
• Pride in Place Impact Fund checked directly against both determinations' Annex A: North Tyneside is absent from both the 2025/26 and 2026/27 tables, unlike neighbouring Gateshead and South Tyneside (both £750,000). This is reported as a finding, not assumed. [12,13]
• NEPO/Open confirmed as North Tyneside's procurement route directly from the council's own "Register with us" page, consistent with the regional page's statement that all twelve North East local authorities use NEPO/Open. [22]
• The 25 August 2026 SAHP first-wave release checked directly: Newcastle City Council is the only North East local authority named (966 homes, £141.4m); Karbon Homes Limited is a separate first-wave partner (£350.0m, 2,533 homes) with no borough breakdown, and is independently confirmed as active in North Tyneside through the Forest Hall and Unicorn House schemes. [2,14,15,16]
• North Tyneside housing stock, tenure and affordability figures read directly from the council's own Tenancy Strategy 2026–2029 key-facts page. [28]

Not verified / press only

• The council's contact-centre phone number in the "Public routes" table was not independently confirmed on a current council contact page for this brief.
• The 17,802-homes (2025–2042) figure for the emerging Local Plan comes from press summary of council housing-land-supply reporting, not the adopted plan itself. [17]
• Backworth's homes number, developer and tenure were not confirmed for this brief. [27]
• The North of Tyne / NECA Investment Fund's specific North Tyneside contribution was not confirmed; cited only via a general parliamentary briefing on local growth funds. [26]

Open items

• No North Tyneside-specific Construction Technical Excellence College spoke relationship, or nearest named FE construction provider, was confirmed.
• No current North Tyneside housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures were found.
• Whether a further NECA Brownfield Housing Fund open call is running, beyond the August 2026 final allocations, was not confirmed for North Tyneside specifically.
• A confirmed 2026/27 UK Shared Prosperity Fund successor allocation for North Tyneside was not found.
• The fourth-largest live scheme beyond Unicorn House, Forest Hall and Marden (Backworth is a partial candidate, homes number unconfirmed) was not conclusively identified; a fuller pipeline review would need the council's own housing land supply monitoring report.

Blocked or failed URLs

• https://my.northtyneside.gov.uk/news/29652/council-doubles-down-affordable-housing-delivery-pledging-build-thousand-more-homes — WebFetch returned only a redirect stub; facts used come from the search-result summary of the same page and are marked accordingly.
• No other direct fetch failures recorded; all other citations were confirmed via WebFetch or WebSearch snippet content.

Verifier pass, 19 September 2026

• Corrected: the board chair. The council's own "Percy Main set for £20m in funding over 10 years" page names Dame Norma Redfearn DBE (not OBE) as Chair; Sir Alan Campbell MP sits on the board as the local MP the programme rules require, rather than as a second chair. The "expected chairs ... subject to formal appointment" framing is withdrawn. [7]
• Corrected: the 2025/26 Impact Fund determination's Annex A lists 94 authorities, not 105. North Tyneside's absence from both years is unchanged and remains the finding; 93 of the 94 are at £750,000 and only Bridgend receives £1,500,000. [12,13]
• Corrected: the phase 2 plan deadline had been cited to the phase 1 methodology note [31]. It comes from the delivery guidance [34]; the citation now points there. The phase 2 note's own entry is "North Tyneside | 1 | Percy Main", with the council's wider "Chirton and North Shields" description noted; the cohort count is 169 funded neighbourhoods across 116 authorities.
• Corrected: the brief did not say whether Bernicia, its other named local RP, is a first-wave partner. It is not in the GOV.UK table in its own right; it is a member of the consortium Karbon Homes leads, so it sits inside Karbon's entry. Karbon's 2,533 homes / £350.0m is confirmed directly in the table. [2,36]
• Confirmed unchanged: Percy Main as the borough's single phase 2 neighbourhood, absent from the phase 1 list of 75 towns and from the 20 March 2026 expansion list; NEPO/Open as the procurement route; the Marden Brownfield Housing Fund award (£131,750, 15 homes); the Tenancy Strategy stock and affordability figures.
• Still open, and what was searched: a named North Tyneside FE construction provider or CTEC spoke (Sunderland College CTEC announcement and regional spoke list — no North Tyneside college named); housing register and homelessness figures (council housing pages); a 2026/27 UKSPF successor allocation (council news and NECA pages); Backworth's homes number, developer and tenure (legacy council page only); the council contact-centre number.

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