Redcar and Cleveland Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across Redcar, Eston, South Bank, Guisborough and the wider borough.

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 Redcar and Cleveland.

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]

No mayoral tenure floor here. Tees Valley is not an established mayoral strategic authority and has no integrated settlement, so SAHP strategic priorities are Homes England's national ones, applied through its North East and Yorkshire operating area rather than a regional standard. [4,5]

Regional routes: Tees Valley

Regional routes: see regions/tees-valley.md for the Combined Authority's structure, the Brownfield Housing Fund, the SAHP first-wave regional position, the three Mayoral Development Corporations, the Investment Zone and the regional skills offer.

Redcar and Cleveland sits at the centre of the region's South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) — c.4,500 acres of former SSI steelworks and associated industrial land south of the River Tees, marketed as Teesworks, England's first Mayoral Development Corporation outside London and at the heart of the Teesside Freeport. Unlike the Middlesbrough and Hartlepool Development Corporations, STDC's land is overwhelmingly employment and industrial, not a housing planning authority for the borough's residential neighbourhoods; the borough council remains the local planning authority for Redcar, Eston, Guisborough, Loftus and Saltburn. [see regions/tees-valley.md, source 11]

Because Tees Valley is not an established mayoral strategic authority, the national programme is the primary affordable-housing route here, and the combined authority route is chiefly for land and remediation. [see regions/tees-valley.md]

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. [1,5]
2. Tees Valley Combined Authority — Brownfield Housing Fund; the three Mayoral Development Corporations, including STDC/Teesworks; the Tees Valley Investment Zone; regional Investment Plan. [see regions/tees-valley.md]
3. Redcar and Cleveland Council — Local planning authority outside STDC land; local housing need and its own Housing Strategy; accountable body for TS6 (Eston) Pride in Place. [9,16,19]
4. South Tees Development Corporation (STDC) — Planning and land decisions across the c.4,500-acre Teesworks site, chaired through the Mayor. [see regions/tees-valley.md, source 11]
5. TS6 Neighbourhood Together Board — Pride in Place governance for the TS6 postcode area (Eston and South Bank); chair not identified in sources checked. [16,17]
6. Development and delivery partners — Beyond Housing (Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar; the Redcare supported-housing partnership with the council); Thirteen Housing Group (South Bank bungalows; homes in development across the borough); Karbon Homes (Lakes/Langley House investment programme); Esh Group (main contractor on the Beyond Housing and Thirteen schemes); Vistry Partnerships North East / Linden Homes (Kirkleatham Lane open-market and private-rent phases). [22,23,24,25,26]

Public routes for the next conversation

A useful first enquiry names the site, landowner, proposed use, delivery lead, funding gap and next decision — and, inside STDC land, states clearly that the enquiry is not for the borough council's planning team.

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. [6]
• Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations. The initial bidding round closed on 15 April 2026; future rounds will be announced. [7]

Before a grant application

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. Because Tees Valley is not an established mayoral strategic authority, there is no regional strategic-priorities document equivalent to those covering Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and the other five areas; a Redcar and Cleveland bid is shaped by Homes England's national priorities instead. [4,5]

Redcar and Cleveland's Housing Strategy 2024–2027 was retrieved as a PDF but not read in full detail for this brief; its specific numeric housing targets and affordable-housing percentage by site should be checked against the adopted document before use in a bid — not verified in the depth needed here. [19]

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Kirkleatham Lane, Redcar — 108 affordable homes within a 375-home scheme

Beyond Housing and Vistry Partnerships North East were announced as the affordable-housing delivery partners on 10 February 2025 for a 375-home site: Beyond Housing's 108 homes split 55 two-bedroom and 53 three-bedroom, with 37 for shared ownership and 71 for affordable rent. The remaining 267 homes are open-market sale (Linden Homes, part of Vistry) and private rent (Sigma Capital / Simple Life). Contract value exceeds £13m, including £1.9m from Homes England. Completion date not verified in the source checked. [22]

Hummersea Hills, Loftus — 128 homes (completed)

Esh Group, delivering on behalf of Beyond Housing under the "Redcare" supported-housing partnership with the council, built 128 homes at Loftus: 85 houses for affordable rent or rent-to-buy, and 43 homes with care and support for older and vulnerable people (9 apartments, 10 houses, 24 bungalows). Funded by Homes England; final completion was reported as expected early 2023, so this scheme is treated as completed, not live, and is included here as the most recent large "Redcare" delivery on record. [23]

South Bank, Redcar Road — 28 bungalows for affordable rent (completed)

Thirteen delivered 28 bungalows for affordable rent on a former terraces site, funded by Homes England and over £500,000 from the Tees Valley Mayor and Combined Authority's Brownfield Housing Fund, at a contract value of £3.7m. First properties were reported available from spring 2022, so this scheme is also completed, not live, and is included as the borough's example of Brownfield Housing Fund co-funding alongside SAHP delivery. [24]

The Lakes / Langley House, Redcar — Karbon Homes, £6m investment programme (existing stock, live)

Karbon Homes is running a three-year (2025–2027) £6m retrofit and refurbishment programme across the North-East, including 50 homes in Redcar's Lakes estate and 27 at Langley House, an over-55s scheme: window and door replacement, kitchen and bathroom renovation, full electrical rewires, heating renewal, and communal upgrades and fire-door replacement at Langley House. Contractor: Straightline NE. This is stock investment in existing homes, not new-build, and should not be read as additional housing supply. [25]

Not reconciled with the above

Thirteen has no live new-build site in Redcar and Cleveland on its own "homes in development" listing. Checked directly on 19 September 2026: the borough-specific 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). Thirteen remains a large existing landlord in the borough (the South Bank bungalows above), but a reader should not assume a live Redcar and Cleveland development pipeline from that page. [26]

Pride in Place: one neighbourhood, phase 1

Redcar and Cleveland has one Pride in Place neighbourhood: TS6 (Eston), carrying up to £20 million over ten years, with projects due to commence from 2026 onwards. [9,16]

Redcar and Cleveland does not appear in MHCLG's phase 2 methodology note (160 boards, September 2025) or the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note (40 boards plus Wales): TS6/Eston was selected in the earliest cohort, so no second Redcar and Cleveland neighbourhood is expected from either later list. [10,11]

Pride in Place Impact Fund — absent, a finding

Redcar and Cleveland was checked directly against Annex A of both determinations: it does not appear in the 2025/26 determination (signed 29 September 2025) or the 2026/27 determination (signed 8 April 2026). Both annexes list authorities at £750,000 a year (one authority at £1,500,000); Redcar and Cleveland is simply not among them in either year. This is an absence, not an oversight of this brief, and should be raised directly with the council or MHCLG if a local allocation is expected. [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. [14,15]

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 Strategy

Redcar and Cleveland's Housing Strategy 2024–2027 was located as a published PDF on the council's own site; its specific numeric targets were not extracted in the depth needed for this brief and should be read directly before use in a bid — open. [19]

Named local delivery

Two of the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners are active in Redcar and Cleveland on the schemes above: Thirteen Housing Group Limited (2,750 homes / £349.2m nationally) and, through its wider North-East stock, Karbon Homes Limited (2,533 homes / £350.0m nationally). Neither figure is a Redcar and Cleveland allocation — both are each organisation's whole first-wave programme, and the schemes named above predate or sit outside the 2026–2036 programme. [2, see regions/tees-valley.md]

Housing register and homelessness

The council's Housing Advice and Information Team (housingclientservices@redcar-cleveland.gov.uk, 01642 774774) handles homelessness prevention and advice; social housing is allocated through Tees Valley Homefinder, a partnership of Redcar and Cleveland, Middlesbrough and Stockton-on-Tees councils plus Registered Providers Beyond Housing and North Star, with nominations also flowing through Thirteen, Home Group and Karbon. Applicants must have a local connection to one of the three partner boroughs. No current housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures for Redcar and Cleveland were found in the sources checked — open. [27,28]

Delivery and the supply chain

Finding the actual route to work

Redcar and Cleveland Council publishes invitations to tender and its contracts register on Open, the e-procurement platform that has replaced the NEPO Portal (ProContract) across the North East, matching the regional page's account of NEPO membership and the Open rollout. To find the council's own opportunities: register on Open, filter by Authority, select "Redcar & Cleveland" and show results; the same filter surfaces the contracts register. This was confirmed directly from the council's own procurement pages rather than assumed from the regional page. [20,21]

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

A funding announcement does not itself create an open invitation to tender: at Kirkleatham Lane, Beyond Housing and Vistry are already engaged as delivery partners, and supply-chain work there flows through those partner relationships rather than a fresh council tender.

Skills and delivery capacity

Redcar and Cleveland College (cleveland.ac.uk) delivers Construction provision from Level 1 bricklaying, plastering and carpentry & joinery through to Level 3 apprenticeships, alongside a £4.7m All Access Academy and a new welding facility funded through the Levelling Up partnership fund. The college is a member of the Education Training Collective (Etc.), alongside Stockton Riverside College, Bede Sixth Form College, NETA Training, Innersummit and The Skills Academy. [32,33]

As set out on the regional page, Etc. was named one of five Clean Energy Technical Excellence Colleges on 14 April 2026 (second wave, £175m nationally) — the Tees Valley's own Technical Excellence College designation is in clean energy, not construction. [see regions/tees-valley.md, source 16] There is no Construction Technical Excellence College in the Tees Valley; the nearest is City of Sunderland College, roughly 30–40 miles north. [see regions/tees-valley.md, source 15]

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
3. Homes England, SAHP 2026–2036: strategic priorities in established mayoral strategic authority areas (Tees Valley absent) · source
4. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036 guidance · source
5. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding using the CME route · source
6. Homes England, SAHP 2026 to 2036: bid for funding as a strategic partnership · source
7. MHCLG, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", 24 August 2026 (Tees Valley not covered) · source
8. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 1: place selection methodology note ("North East | Redcar and Cleveland | Eston") · source
9. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2: place selection methodology note (no Redcar and Cleveland entry) · source
10. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion: place selection methodology note, 20 March 2026 (no Redcar and Cleveland entry) · source
11. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025–26, Annex A (no Redcar and Cleveland entry) · source
12. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026–27, Annex A (no Redcar and Cleveland entry) · source
13. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme delivery guidance · source
14. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme prospectus · source
15. Redcar and Cleveland Council, TS6 Together · source
16. TS6 Together, YourVoiceMatters engagement hub · source
17. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Housing Strategy 2024–2027 (PDF) · source
18. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Invitation to tender · source
19. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Contracts register · source
20. Beyond Housing, "Developers announced for 108 new Redcar homes" · source
21. Esh Group, "Work underway on 128 new homes in Redcar and Cleveland town" (Hummersea Hills, Loftus) · source
22. Esh Group, "Esh awarded £3.7m contract to deliver affordable bungalows in Redcar and Cleveland" (South Bank) · source
23. Tees Business, "Homes in Redcar benefit from £6m housing investment programme" · source
24. Thirteen Group, Homes in development — Redcar and Cleveland · source
25. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Social housing (Tees Valley Homefinder) · source
26. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Housing Advice and information · source
27. Redcar and Cleveland Council, Levelling Up Fund · source
28. Redcar | Cleveland (business site), "£25m Town Deal funding awarded to Redcar" · source
29. Redcar | Cleveland (business site), External Grant Funding · source
30. Redcar & Cleveland College · source ; Education Training Collective (Etc.), Redcar & Cleveland College category · source
31. NFRC, Redcar and Cleveland College (construction training) · source

For the regional routes ("in regions/tees-valley.md"), see the full numbered source list in that page's own Sources section (sources 1–27, including the Combined Authority, the Brownfield Housing Fund, the three Development Corporations, the Investment Zone, NEPO/Open and the region's skills offer).

Research notes

Verified from primary or council sources

• TS6/Eston checked directly against the primary GOV.UK phase 1 methodology note: named as one of the initial 55 phase 1 places, "North East | Redcar and Cleveland | Eston" — no Pride in Place Plan deadline applies. [9]
• Checked directly against the phase 2 methodology note and the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note: Redcar and Cleveland appears in neither, confirming TS6/Eston is the borough's only Pride in Place neighbourhood. [10,11]
• Pride in Place Impact Fund checked directly against Annex A of both the 2025/26 and 2026/27 determinations: Redcar and Cleveland is absent from both — a genuine finding, treated as such rather than smoothed over. [12,13]
• Open confirmed as the council's e-procurement platform (replacing the NEPO Portal/ProContract) directly from the council's own "Invitation to tender" and "Contracts register" pages, consistent with the regional page's account of NEPO/Open. [20,21]
• Redcar and Cleveland College's construction provision and its membership of the Education Training Collective (Etc.) confirmed from the college's own site and Etc.'s own category page. [32]
• Housing Advice and Information Team contact details (email, phone, address) taken directly from the council's own housing advice page. [28]

Not verified / press or trade-press only

• The TS6 Neighbourhood Together Board's chair, defined boundary and specific project aims are not published on the council's own TS6 page; this brief does not name a chair, unlike Wakefield's briefs for comparable boards.
• Kirkleatham Lane's completion date, and the exact split of the wider 375-home scheme's phasing, come from a Beyond Housing press release rather than a planning decision notice.
• Hummersea Hills (Loftus, 128 homes) and the South Bank bungalows (28 homes) are read as completed from press articles dated 2021–2023; no confirmation was sought that both are fully handed over as of September 2026, since neither reads as a current live scheme.
• The £25m Redcar Town Deal and the £20m Greater Eston/Guisborough Levelling Up Fund figures rest on the council's own news pages and business-site reporting rather than a DLUHC/MHCLG award letter retrieved directly for this brief.
• The £200,000 UK Shared Prosperity Fund grant scheme figure is a DBT/TVCA scheme total, not confirmed as a Redcar and Cleveland-specific allocation.

Open items

• No current Redcar and Cleveland housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures were found; the Housing Advice and information pages describe the service but publish no figures.
• The Housing Strategy 2024–2027's specific numeric housing and affordable-housing targets were not read in the depth needed for this brief.
• Thirteen's own "homes in development" listing for the borough was not fully itemised; there may be additional live schemes beyond the four described here.
• Whether Kirkleatham Lane's 108 Beyond Housing homes are now practically complete, and any confirmed completion date, remains open.
• TS6/Eston's board chair and precise neighbourhood boundary remain open, as does whether a Redcar and Cleveland Pride in Place Plan or delivery update has been published since the phase 1 approval.

Blocked or failed URLs

• None of the primary URLs cited above returned a blocked or failed status to WebFetch during this research session; all GOV.UK, council and press pages fetched successfully.

Verifier pass, 19 September 2026:

• Confirmed, independently re-checked: the Impact Fund absence. Both determinations were fetched raw and their Annex A tables parsed from the HTML directly. Each lists 94 authorities, 93 at £750,000 and Bridgend at £1,500,000. Redcar and Cleveland appears in neither year, exactly as the brief states; the only Tees Valley entries are Hartlepool and Middlesbrough. The signing dates the brief gives — 29 September 2025 and 8 April 2026 — are also correct, read from the determinations themselves. This brief got a hinge claim right that two of its neighbours got wrong.
• Confirmed: the cohort and the deadline. Eston is in phase 1 Part A, the initial 55 places of October 2023, named as "North East | Redcar and Cleveland | Eston" in the methodology note's own table — the brief's "initial 55 places selected in October 2023" is exactly right. It appears in neither the phase 2 list nor the 20 March 2026 expansion list, so no plan deadline applies and 26 February 2027 is irrelevant here.
• Corrected (material): Thirteen's local pipeline. The brief said Thirteen's "homes in development" page "for Redcar and Cleveland lists further live sites" and left the detail open. It does not. Checked directly: every borough-specific URL 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 Redcar and Cleveland. The open item is closed as a negative rather than left as an implied pipeline. [26]
• Confirmed unchanged: Thirteen (2,750 / £349.2m) and Karbon (2,533 / £350.0m) as first-wave SAHP strategic partners, read from the release's own table; Beyond Housing, the borough's other large RP, is not a first-wave partner and the brief does not claim it is. No Tees Valley figure in MHCLG's 24 August 2026 regional breakdown, correctly stated. Open (NEPO) confirmed as the procurement platform from the council's own invitation-to-tender and contracts-register pages.
• Still open, with what was searched: the TS6 Neighbourhood Together Board's chair, defined boundary and contact details, which the council's own TS6 page still does not publish (residents are directed to the YourVoiceMatters platform); the current spend status of the £25m Towns Fund award; whether the £200,000 DBT/TVCA grant scheme carries any Redcar and Cleveland-specific allocation; Karbon's retrofit programme figures beyond the Lakes and Langley House schemes.

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