Gedling Borough Council needs more than 800 homes to bridge gap in housing supply over next five years

Gedling Borough Council needs to bridge a gap of more than 800 homes in its housing supply over the next five years.

Gedling Borough Council’s housing deficit was noted in the authority’s cabinet meeting on Thursday (11) in a report outlining its five-year housing land supply position as at the end of March 2025.

National planning policy requires council’s to update their housing land supply assessments each year and Gedling’s most recent one is showing an undersupply of 846 homes by the end of March 2030.

It is assessed against the housing requirement calculated using the government’s ‘standard methodology’ – used for calculating the minimum housing need for each local authority – which was updated in December 2024 as part of the Labour Government’s push for 300,000 new homes a year.

Based on this updated housing formula, the housing need for Gedling Borough is now 638 homes a year – that’s up from the previous 460 homes.

Along with an applied five per cent buffer, this equates to 3,350 homes in five years but the current estimated housing supply for this period is 846 fewer at 2,504 homes, meaning the authority has a 3.73 year supply.

Documents say this is a “significant decrease” from the figure in 2024 which showed the authority having a 6.19 year housing supply.

According to documents, the “main reason” for the undersupply relates to the government’s updated housing formula causing a “significant increase” in the amount of properties Gedling needs to deliver each year.

The authority says the updated formula is also a reason behind why it pulled out of the Greater Nottingham Strategic Plan in March 2025.

This is a partnership with Nottingham City Council, Broxtowe Borough Council and Rushcliffe Borough Council to guide future development, housing and and infrastructure – Gedling withdrew from this to create its own ‘Gedling Local Development Plan’. This is planned to be submitted to the government in December 2026 with implementation in 2028.

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When asked how the council plans to bridge the more than 800-home gap, a council spokesperson said in a statement: “The council is currently progressing a new Local Plan to ensure an ongoing supply of housing land and to meet our increased housing targets in full.

“An Issues and Options consultation took place in July 2025, and a further consultation on the draft plan is proposed for the New Year.”

Various housing schemes are underway across the borough with some set to deliver new homes by 2030.

These include 131 factory-built affordable homes in Rolleston Drive, Arnold, which are set to fully complete in 2026, the over 900-home Gedling Colliery and Chase Farm development which has 331 properties left to be built as at March 2025 and the Teal Close development in Carlton which has 507 out of 807 homes built as of March 2025.