South Tyneside Regeneration & Investment Briefing

Funding, places and delivery. A briefing for the organisations bringing forward homes and regeneration across South Shields, Hebburn, Jarrow, Boldon 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. [1]

The joint Investment Prospectus, published 31 March 2026 ahead of the National Housing Bank's opening on 1 April, brings grant, land and finance into one framework. [1]

Programme milestones

Grant, land and finance (products and routes)

Housing and infrastructure grant for South Tyneside is more likely to route through NECA's own Brownfield Housing Fund and its integrated settlement; SAHP grant remains administered by Homes England and is not devolved to NECA. [1, see regions/north-east.md]

Regional routes: North East

Regional routes: see regions/north-east.md for NECA's status as an established mayoral strategic authority, the Mayor's Brownfield Housing Fund, the Plan for Homes / National Housing Delivery Fund allocation, the SAHP first-wave regional figures, Mayoral Development Zones, the North East Investment Zone and the regional skills offer.

No Mayoral Development Zone or Investment Zone site is named for South Tyneside; the announced MDZs cover Newcastle/Gateshead, Durham City and Sunderland, and the Investment Zone's four sites are Blyth, Sunderland/South Tyneside (International Advanced Manufacturing Park boundary), the Tyne economic corridor and NETPark. The Tyne economic corridor Investment Zone site and the IAMP boundary both touch South Tyneside, but this is jobs/business-space money, not housing grant. [see regions/north-east.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. [1,18]
2. North East Mayoral Strategic Authority (NECA) — Regional priorities, tenure mix, SAHP strategic priorities; Brownfield Housing Fund; integrated settlement; Plan for Homes. [see regions/north-east.md]
3. South Tyneside Council — Local housing need, planning authority (Local Plan adopted 30 July 2026), council land, its own housing programme via South Tyneside Homes; accountable body for the Jarrow and Biddick Hall Pride in Place neighbourhoods. [17,6,7]
4. Two Pride in Place neighbourhood boards — Jarrow Forward Neighbourhood Board, Chair Susan Wear (phase 1, plan submitted); Biddick Hall Pride in Place Neighbourhood Board, Chair Tracey Stephenson, Vice Chair Claire Finlay (phase 2, plan due 30 November 2026). [6,7,8]
5. Development and delivery partners — Karbon Homes (extra care and supported living, Hebburn and South Shields); Miller Homes (198 homes, Westoe); Tyne Coast College / South Tyneside College (skills, and the college relocation funded by the Levelling Up Fund). [25,26,27,28,30]

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. [19]
• Strategic partnerships — Programme-level allocations; the initial bidding round closed 15 April 2026; future rounds to be announced. [18]

Organisations need Homes England Investment Partner qualification to receive grant. NECA's strategic priorities for the established mayoral strategic authority area set the shape of a bid: at least 60% Social Rent, economic-corridor and town/neighbourhood regeneration focus, low-carbon homes, council-led or community-led delivery. [21]

South Tyneside's adopted Local Plan (30 July 2026) sets a housing requirement of at least 5,253 homes over 2023–2040, phased at 180 homes a year for 2023–2028 and 363 homes a year for 2028–2040; the government's separate standard-method figure is 321 homes a year. The two figures are calculated differently and should not be netted against each other. The adopted Local Plan's own affordable-housing percentage by site was not retrieved for this brief — not verified. [17]

Places and programmes (borough programmes)

Westoe, South Shields — 198 homes

Miller Homes secured final Government planning approval on 25 March 2026 for 198 homes on the 9.3-hectare former South Tyneside College campus site, St George's Avenue, Westoe. The scheme generates a capital receipt reported at around £23m towards the college's relocation to South Shields town centre alongside the Marine School. Tenure mix and affordable-housing percentage were not itemised in the sources checked — open. [27]

Hebburn Extra Care — 96 homes

Karbon Homes, working with South Tyneside Council, is delivering a £26m extra care scheme of 96 homes (20 two-bed and 75 one-bed apartments, 17 of which are specialist dementia apartments — note the reported unit count exceeds 96 in the source and was not reconciled). Part of a wider three-scheme, up-to-300-home programme with the council. Homes England grant via Karbon's SAHP Strategic Partnership was referenced but not itemised to this scheme. [25]

South Shields Extra Care, Benton Road — 124 homes

Karbon Homes has started construction of a 124-home extra care scheme on the former Chuter Ede school and Ede Community Association site, Benton Road, South Shields. Completion date not verified in the sources checked. [26]

South Shields town centre and riverside — Levelling Up Fund, £20m

Round 3 Levelling Up Fund award of £20m supporting three projects: the relocation of South Tyneside College (Tyne Coast College) into South Shields town centre; a redeveloped Customs House and cultural quarter; and a Centre of Excellence at the Holborn Renewable Energy Network. Over £9m is reported for King Street and the market. Delivery status against these three strands was not itemised in the sources checked for this brief — open. [28]

Not reconciled with the above

The homes figures above are scheme-level and should not be summed with the Local Plan's 2023–2040 requirement of at least 5,253 homes, which already contains future supply from these and other sites. [17]

Pride in Place: two neighbourhoods, two cohorts

South Tyneside has two Pride in Place neighbourhoods, each carrying its own up to £20 million over ten years and its own board. Do not sum the two into a single borough total.

South Tyneside does not appear in the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion methodology note (40 neighbourhoods plus Wales): both South Tyneside areas were selected in earlier cohorts, so no third South Tyneside neighbourhood is expected from that list. [12]

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

South Tyneside appears in Annex A of both the 2025/26 determination and the 2026/27 determination at £750,000 a year — the standard rate applied to most of the 94 listed authorities each year. Do not add the two years together as if South Tyneside's ten-year Pride in Place grants were part of the same pot — the Impact Fund is separate money with its own borough-wide allocation and no published target wards found for this brief. [13,14]

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. [15,16]

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

South Tyneside's Local Plan, adopted 30 July 2026, sets a housing requirement of at least 5,253 homes over 2023–2040: at least 180 homes a year for 2023–2028, then at least 363 homes a year for 2028–2040. Green Belt land at Fellgate was among the plan's most contentious housing allocations. The government's separate standard-method figure gives South Tyneside an indicative target of 321 homes a year; the two figures are calculated under different methods and should not be netted against each other. [17]

Named local delivery

One of the 33 first-wave SAHP strategic partners, Karbon Homes Limited (£350.0m of grant and 2,533 homes — the per-partner cap), is the borough's most active named delivery partner, but none of its South Tyneside schemes above is evidence of a South Tyneside-specific SAHP allocation: the partner table gives no site or borough breakdown. Karbon's own release describes the partnership as a consortium it leads with believe housing, Bernicia, Durham Aged Miners' Homes Association and Livin, which share those figures; GOV.UK names only "Karbon Homes Limited". Newcastle City Council is the only other North East entry; Home Group, Gentoo, Bernicia, believe housing and Thirteen are not in the table in their own right. [2,25,26,34]

Housing register and homelessness

South Tyneside Council's Housing Solutions Service (0300 123 6633) handles applications, homelessness prevention and South Tyneside Homes' independent-living (Housing Plus) stock. No current housing register total, band breakdown or homelessness presentation figures for South Tyneside were found in the sources checked — open. [32]

Delivery and the supply chain

Finding the actual route to work

South Tyneside Council advertises tenders through NEPO's Open portal (open-uk.org), which replaced the old NEPO Portal in February 2025 and is used by all North East local authorities, confirmed on the council's own "Selling to the Council and South Tyneside Homes" pages. Above-threshold notices also appear on Find a Tender (find-tender.service.gov.uk) and the Government's Contract Finder for opportunities over £25,000. [22,23,24]

Skills and delivery capacity

South Tyneside College, part of Tyne Coast College (formed by the 2017 merger of South Tyneside College, South Shields Marine School, Queen Alexandra Sixth Form College and Tyne Metropolitan College), delivers construction and built-environment provision across its campuses, alongside apprenticeships offered directly by the council and South Tyneside Homes (construction, ICT, HGV technician and other trades). [30,32]

The region's Construction Technical Excellence College is Sunderland College, hosting the Housing Innovation and Construction Skills Academy (HICSA) at Riverside Sunderland — one of ten CTECs named nationally on 12 August 2025. Tyne Coast College's role as a named spoke or delivery partner for HICSA was not confirmed in the sources checked for this brief — not verified; see regions/north-east.md for the region's full CTEC detail, which does not list a South Tyneside spoke college by name. [see regions/north-east.md, source 16]

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 (partner table: Newcastle City Council 966 homes/£141.4m; Karbon Homes Limited 2,533 homes/£350.0m nationally) · source
3. MHCLG, "Historic council housebuilding comeback to help families into secure homes", 24 August 2026 — North East regional estimate £445m / c.3,400 homes · source
4. South Tyneside Council, Biddick Hall regeneration funding · source
5. South Tyneside Council, Jarrow regeneration · source
6. South Tyneside Council, Jarrow Forward (Jarrow Neighbourhood Board) — Roles and membership · source
7. Shields Gazette, "Jarrow Forward looks ahead to delivering £20million investment into the town" · source
8. South Tyneside Council, "Ten-Year Regeneration Plan for Jarrow" (news, 29 October 2025) · source
9. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2: place selection methodology note ("South Tyneside | 1 | Biddick Hill") · source
10. MHCLG, Pride in Place Programme phase 2 expansion: place selection methodology note, 20 March 2026 (no South Tyneside entry) · source
11. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2025–26 (Annex A: South Tyneside £750,000) · source
12. MHCLG, Pride in Place Impact Fund grant determinations 2026–27 (Annex A: South Tyneside £750,000) · source
13. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme delivery guidance · source
14. MHCLG, Pride in Place programme prospectus · source
15. South Tyneside Council / press reporting, South Tyneside Local Plan adoption (30 July 2026; 5,253 homes 2023–2040; 180/yr then 363/yr; Fellgate Green Belt allocations) · source · source · source
16. Homes England, SAHP 2026–2036 guidance · source
17. Homes England, Continuous Market Engagement route · source
18. Homes England, Strategic Partnership route · source
19. Homes England, SAHP strategic priorities in established mayoral strategic authority areas (NECA) · source
20. Find a Tender service · source
21. South Tyneside Council, Selling to the Council and South Tyneside Homes: Register your business · source
22. NEPO, Open · source ; supplier registration · source
23. Karbon Homes, "Partnership to bring new extra care facilities to South Tyneside" · source
24. Housing Digital, "Karbon gets started on South Shields extra care scheme" · source
25. Shields Gazette, "Government ruling sees South Shields 198-home scheme get final planning green light" · source
26. South Tyneside Council, "£20m Funding Boost for South Shields Town Centre and Riverside" · source
27. South Tyneside Council, UK Shared Prosperity Fund — Successful projects · source
28. South Tyneside College, About TCC (Tyne Coast College) · source
29. South Tyneside Council Housing Services, Contact us · source
30. Jarrow Forward, Jarrow Regeneration Plan 2026 to 2036 (published by South Tyneside Council; plan approved by Government April 2026) · source
31. 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 sources

• South Tyneside checked directly against all three primary GOV.UK Pride in Place lists: Jarrow confirmed phase 1 ("North East | South Tyneside | Jarrow" in the phase 1 methodology note); Biddick Hall confirmed phase 2 (listed as "South Tyneside | 1 | Biddick Hill" in the phase 2 methodology note — spelling not reconciled against the council's own "Biddick Hall"); neither appears in the 20 March 2026 phase 2 expansion note. [11,12]
• Pride in Place Impact Fund checked directly against both determinations' Annex A: South Tyneside listed at £750,000 in both 2025/26 and 2026/27. [13,14]
• SAHP first-wave partner table checked directly: South Tyneside Council is not a first-wave partner; Newcastle City Council and Karbon Homes Limited are the two North East entries; Karbon (£350.0m / 2,533 homes) is independently confirmed active on named South Tyneside schemes. Home Group, Gentoo, Bernicia, believe housing and Thirteen do not appear in the partner table in their own right, though four North East RPs sit inside Karbon's consortium. [2,25,26,34]
• NEPO's Open portal confirmed as South Tyneside's procurement route from the council's own "Selling to the Council" pages, consistent with the regional page. [23,24]
• Local Plan adoption date, housing requirement (5,253 homes, 2023–2040) and phasing read from council reporting and corroborated by local press. [17]

Not verified / press only

• The Hebburn Extra Care unit breakdown (20 two-bed, 75 one-bed, 17 dementia apartments against a stated 96-home total) is inconsistent in the Karbon Homes source and not reconciled here.
• Completion dates for the South Shields Extra Care scheme (Benton Road) and delivery status of the three Levelling Up Fund strands were not found.
• South Tyneside's affordable-housing percentage by site in the adopted Local Plan, and any current housing register/homelessness presentation figures, were not found.
• Tyne Coast College's role, if any, as a named HICSA spoke college is not confirmed; the regional page's own CTEC spoke-college list does not name it.

Open items

• No named South Tyneside NECA Brownfield Housing Fund award was found (contrast with Northumberland, Gateshead and North Tyneside awards cited on the regional page).
• The fifth-largest live scheme beyond the four named here was not searched; only four were researched against the 12-minute budget for this brief.
• 2026/27 UK Shared Prosperity Fund successor position for South Tyneside is open.
• Jarrow Forward and Biddick Hall board governance documents (terms of reference, accountable-body confirmation, quorum rules) were not retrieved in the depth applied to Wakefield's Featherstone board; only the council's public-facing pages and press were used.

Blocked or failed URLs

• https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/29257/Biddick-Hall-regeneration-funding — HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch; refetched successfully via ScrapingBee.
• https://www.southtyneside.gov.uk/article/28667/Ten-Year-Regeneration-Plan-for-Jarrow — HTTP 403 to direct WebFetch; refetched successfully via ScrapingBee.

Verifier pass, 19 September 2026

• Closed: Jarrow Forward's plan approval, previously marked not verified. The council confirms Government approval in April 2026 and publishes the Jarrow Forward Jarrow Regeneration Plan 2026 to 2036 itself; that document is now cited. [33]
• Corrected: the SAHP paragraph now states what the partner table does and does not contain. Karbon Homes Limited's entry (2,533 homes, £350.0m) is the consortium's whole figure — Karbon's own release names believe housing, Bernicia, Durham Aged Miners' Homes Association and Livin as members, so the earlier flat statement that "Believe Housing ... do not appear in the partner table" needed the qualification that they sit inside Karbon's entry rather than outside the programme. Newcastle City Council remains the only other North East entry. [2,34]
• Confirmed unchanged, re-checked against the three GOV.UK lists: Jarrow is phase 1 ("North East | South Tyneside | Jarrow" among the 75 towns) with no plan deadline; Biddick Hall is phase 2, entered as "South Tyneside | 1 | Biddick Hill", plan due 30 November 2026; South Tyneside is absent from the 20 March 2026 expansion list. The Biddick Hill / Biddick Hall spelling difference is real and stays flagged.
• Confirmed unchanged: Impact Fund £750,000 in each of 2025/26 and 2026/27 from Annex A of both determinations (93 of 94 authorities at that rate each year; only Bridgend at £1,500,000); the adopted Local Plan (30 July 2026, at least 5,253 homes 2023–2040, 180/yr then 363/yr, standard method 321/yr); Open (NEPO) as the procurement portal from the council's own pages; board chairs Susan Wear and Tracey Stephenson with Vice Chair Claire Finlay.
• Still open, and what was searched: no named South Tyneside NECA Brownfield Housing Fund award (NECA news and delegated decision reports name Gateshead, North Tyneside, Northumberland and Sunderland schemes, not South Tyneside); the adopted Local Plan's affordable-housing percentage by site; the Hebburn Extra Care unit breakdown, which is internally inconsistent in Karbon's own source; Levelling Up Fund strand delivery status and the 2026/27 UKSPF successor position; housing register and homelessness figures; Tyne Coast College as a named CTEC spoke.

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