Upper Tantallon

Against its peers Ranked by pipeline units, Upper Tantallon (123) sits fifth of six: behind West Bedford (2,841), Hammonds Plains (990), Upper Hammonds Plains (972), and Timberlea (543), and ahead of only Lucasville (69). Project count follows the same order — 8 tracked filings here against double digits everywhere but Lucasville's 5. Ranked by the pipeline-to-existing ratio, the order inverts: Upper Hammonds Plains' 972 units against a 246-dwelling base compute to roughly four times what's already built there, and Hammonds Plains, West Bedford, Timberlea, and Lucasville all compute to a heavier relative load than Upper Tantallon's 12.1%. Upper Tantallon is the only one of the six where the existing base outweighs the pipeline, by roughly eight to one.

Pipeline vs the existing base Within Upper Tantallon's own 123 units, the stage mix skews almost entirely to entitlement rather than delivery: zero proposed, 107 approved (87%), 8 under construction, and 8 completed. Two approved applications carry that entire 107-unit count — 96 units at 277 Westwood Blvd (approved 2024-04-17) and 11 units at 25 French Village Station Rd (approved 2025-02-20) — so one filing alone accounts for 78% of everything tracked in the area. Movement is close to flat: zero events of any kind in the trailing 13 weeks, and a single broke-ground event covering 4 units in the trailing 52 weeks, with no recorded movement against the Westwood Blvd approval since it cleared planning. The existing base carries a PVSC assessed value of $966,001,600 against a declared building-permit value of $63,317,155 in the active pipeline — record figures, not a derived cost. Upper Tantallon's 12.1% ratio rests substantially on one approval not yet converted to a permit or construction start.

What's leading The roster, by size:

• 277 Westwood Blvd — approved, 96 units, last updated 2024-04-17
• 25 French Village Station Rd — approved, 11 units, last updated 2025-02-20
• 85 Chevy Way — under construction, 4 units, last updated 2026-07-30
• 71 Chevy Way — under construction, 4 units, last updated 2026-05-27
• 8 Leapfrog Lane — completed, 4 units, last updated 2026-01-23
• 5 Leapfrog Lane — completed, 4 units, last updated 2025-12-19

Two further filings carry no published unit count and sit outside the 123-unit total: a proposed application on Westwood Blvd (2023-12-21) and an approved one at 445 Winslow Dr (2025-09-10).

The character 277 Westwood Blvd and 445 Winslow Dr front the road network of Westwood Hills, a roughly 700-home subdivision on about 1,500 acres north of Hammonds Plains Road, reached via Westwood Boulevard and Winslow Drive near Highway 103's Exit 5, on private wells and septic rather than municipal water and sewer ^[4]. That subdivision is where a wildfire beginning May 28, 2023 destroyed roughly 151 homes and evacuated more than 16,000 people from the wider Upper Tantallon and Hammonds Plains area ^[2]; HRM's 2026-27 capital budget now carries $1.5 million toward a roughly 500-metre emergency egress connecting the subdivision's southwest edge to Highway 103, part of an estimated $2.5-million project partly funded through the federal Housing Accelerator Fund ^[3]. Upper Tantallon is a suburban community of about 3,378 residents across 1,528 dwellings in the St. Margarets Bay planning area ^[1]; residents along St. Margarets Bay Road have described traffic delays from concurrent provincial and municipal road work ^[5]. The peer areas carry their own distinct stories: Upper Hammonds Plains' ratio followed a reported wave of 746 approved units ^[6], West Bedford's followed roughly 2,060 homes approved across three agreements in 2023 ^[7], and Timberlea's includes a pending amendment adding apartment buildings to a standing agreement ^[8] — a format absent from Upper Tantallon's roster of subdivision and small-lot filings.

The read Set against these five peers, Upper Tantallon reads as a mature, low-turnover suburb: a mid-sized existing base carrying one of the thinnest, most concentrated pipelines in the set, propped up almost entirely by a single 96-unit approval with no recorded movement in over two years. That contrasts with Upper Hammonds Plains, where a much smaller base is absorbing a pipeline roughly four times its size, and with West Bedford and Timberlea, whose growth runs through multi-project agreements rather than single-lot filings ^[6][7][8]. The open question the record can't answer: what moves the 277 Westwood Blvd approval — on the same road network HRM is now funding an emergency egress for — from a two-year-old entitlement into a permit filing or construction start, since that project's own progress is what would shift this area's position among its peers ^[3].