TranslateLand use audits
Land audits inform the preparation of Local Development Plans. They provide information to Scottish Government and key infrastructure agencies in guiding future network investments.
The Planning Service prepares an annual housing land audit. The audit monitors applications for new housing over the period 1 April to 31 March. It includes information on housing completions and programming for the completion of housing sites that are:
- allocated in the Local Development, and or
- have planning permission
Housing Land Audits
Our 2025 Housing Land Audit was agreed in November 2025. You can see the location and details of the sites which make up our Housing Land Audit on this Storymap presentation.
Previous Housing Land Audit presentations:
Housing Land Audit datasets, including GIS shapefiles are available to download from our Open Data Portal.
Town Centre Audits
To inform Local Development Plan 2, we worked with Scotland's Town Partnership and EKOS to prepare town-centre audits. The audits are available on North Ayrshire Community Planning Partnership or by emailing the Strategic Planning team. Updated information on our town centres will form part of the Evidence Report for LDP3.
Employment Land Audit
Our storymap presentation of North Ayrshire's 2024 to 2025 Employment Land Audit includes the location and key information for all the employment sites within North Ayrshire as of 1 April 2025.