Gateshead and Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment

Gateshead & Newcastle Strategic Housing Market Assessment ‐ 2010
3.3.4 The plan defines two City regions of Tyne & Wear and Tees Valley where specific policy and
strategy applies. The sub‐regions and the authorities contained within them are outlined
below:
Sub‐Region
Tyne & Wear
Northumberland
Durham
Local Authorities
North Tyneside / Gateshead / Newcastle Upon Tyne
South Tyneside / Sunderland
Former Districts of Blyth Valley / Castle Morpeth / Wansbeck / Parts
of Alnwick & Tynedale
Former Districts of Chester Le Street / Durham City / Easington
3.3.5 Newcastle and Gateshead are within the Tyne & Wear City Region and is the area which
looks primarily to Newcastle, the regional centre and to other Tyne & Wear authorities for
access to jobs and services.
3.4 Housing Market Boundaries in the North East Region
3.4.1 Various research has already been carried out which examine housing markets within the
North East Region. These include:‐
‣ CURDS (2004) Analysis of Census Migration Data to Define Housing Market Areas
for Tyne & Wear;
‣ Tribal & CURS (June 2008), Comparisons of Housing Market Areas and Strategic
Housing Market Areas in the North East’;
‣ North East Assembly (NEA) (2009) Defining Strategic Housing Market Areas in
North East England’;
‣ The Tyne & Wear Housing Partnership (July 2007) Tyne & Wear SHMA.
CURDS (2004), ‘Analysis of Census Migration Data to Define Housing Market Areas
for Tyne & Wear’
3.4.2 The research undertaken by the Centre for Urban and Regional Development Studies
(CURDS) was originally cited in the 2007 Tyne & Wear Housing Partnership report into
Housing Market Assessments and subsequently in the 2009 Tyne & Wear SHMA. The
research was based on the analysis of census migration figures on the basis of a 95.5% selfcontainment
of moves.
3.4.3 The CURDS study suggested the existence of four primary sub‐areas. Newcastle and
Gateshead formed part of the North Tyne market Area, comprising Newcastle, Gateshead,
North Tyneside and parts of the districts to the North and West of the Tyne.
Tribal & CURS (June 2008), ‘Comparisons of Housing Market Areas and Strategic
Housing Market Areas in the North East’
3.4.4 The purpose of the study was to understand the HMA and SHMA work that had previously
been carried out by sub‐regional partnerships. The study examined the technical aspects of
previous Housing Market Assessments in the North East region to understand the extent to
which the work already completed adhered to the 2007 SHMA Practice Guidance and where
there were gaps.
3.4.5 The study recognised that the HMAs and SHMAs had been carried out at different times and
under different sets of Government Guidance, leading to gaps and overlaps of data.
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