Wallsend is a popular residential area with a range of available housing, excellent public transport, good schools, proximity to the coast and Newcastle city centre and high quality parks.
Housing will be a key driver of Wallsend’s regeneration and one of the three policy priorities in the masterplan is to improve the quality of the housing offer in Wallsend, creating affordable homes and tackling some of the poor quality privately rented housing in the area.
Over the past ten years the Council has successfully built and refurbished some attractive and popular affordable housing in Wallsend including:
• 12 homes built at Swan Close on the former Wallsend Boys’ Club site
• 41 homes built in Alexandra Street
• 7 homes refurbished in Charlotte Street bringing derelict properties back into use (pictured below).
The Council has also worked in partnership with registered providers leading to the following homes being delivered:
• 6 Homes by Karbon at Park House
• 7 Homes by Home Housing at Wilson Street (Star House)
• 20 homes built by Home Housing in Carville Road (former Co-op)
• 8 homes by Karbon at Church Bank.
New affordable homes sites
Work began in 2025 on two affordable homes sites in Wallsend, with demolitions of the former Rosehill Social Club and an out-of-use office block, Parkside House.
The social club had been out of use since 2014 and the site had since become derelict, becoming a hotspot for antisocial behaviour and vandalism. The site’s previous owner has difficulties maintaining and finding a renewed purpose for the site. North Tyneside Council stepped in to purchase and earmark it for eight new affordable homes that will be rented out as social housing for those on the Council’s housing register.
Parkside House on Elton Steet was an office building that had been sitting empty for several years. The Council stepped in to acquire the site in 2023 thanks to funding from the North East Combined Authority’s Brownfield Housing Fund. A controlled demolition took place in 2024, making way for the new affordable homes, which are a mixture of one and two bedroom apartments.