The investment includes a four-year scheme to bring improvements back on track after tenants were impacted by the collapse of a multi-million-pound repairs contract.

The local authority has issued tender documents for two major contracts through the Public Contracts Scotland procurement portal.

The council is set to spend £21.3m on bringing void council properties back into use.

Recent figures revealed there were more than 1,000 empty council houses in Angus at the end of 2025. The figure is around 12% of the council’s total housing stock.

Among the empty properties are 85 flood-damaged Brechin houses, which have lain empty since Storm Babet in 2023, the Courier reports. 

Voids cost the council more than £1m in lost rent every year. The average time a council house sat empty in 2025 was almost 100 days. However, the end-of-year figure was around 130 fewer voids than 2023-24.

The contract notice states that the work will range from bedsits to seven-bedroom houses. It will involve properties from single-storey sheltered cottages to flats up to five storeys high.

The other major spend is a £22.5m unplanned repairs tender. Angus Council was left with what one councillor described as a “mountain of repairs” after the sudden collapse of a previous contract.

In 2021, Airdrie-based MPS was awarded a £10m contract for repairs in Montrose, Brechin, Forfar and Kirriemuir. But the company used a bail-out clause to end the three-year arrangement after less than 12 months.

In 2024, housing chiefs admitted they were looking into the idea of bringing back council tradesmen. It has included talks with councils which have their own repair teams, such as neighbouring Dundee and Perth and Kinross.