New build council housing nearing completion at Fenwick
10 Jun 2011 12:38:43
With just a month to go until six fabulous new houses are handed over early to their new owners Councillor Douglas Reid visited the site of the new build council housing at Creelshaugh Road, Fenwick.
Councillor Reid, who was joined at the site by Depute Leader Councillor Iain Linton and local members for Irvine Valley; Councillors Alan Brown, Stuart Finlayson, Bobby McDill and Stephanie Young, to view the progress to date. He said: “Our ambitious house building programme has moved into the second phase and I am really pleased to see these houses so near to completion. When I visited the couples who moved into our new homes at MacDonald Drive it really hit home how important these houses are. From the very beginning we have had the needs of our older tenants in mind and the homes have been cleverly designed around their complex needs. This means that people are moving into homes that suit their needs and that larger property can be re-leased to families currently on our housing lists.”
Phase Two of Housing Building Programme includes an additional eight houses in Bellfield and sixteen houses in Onthank for older and ambulant disabled people.
The Council’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) 2011/ 2012 – 2015/ 2016, sets out the Council’s forward Affordable Housing Investment Plan programme for the next five years, and allows for the development of a further fifty new Council houses across East Ayrshire, including Cumnock, as well as Kilmarnock and the Irvine Valley. The SHIP was submitted to the Scottish Government for consideration and has informed this year’s development proposals.
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