Angus Council

Angus Council’s Communities Committee is to consider a Housing Service Improvement Plan this week in response to challenges and concerns around critical service areas.

Angus Council has now published its Local Housing Strategy 2023-28.

Rents for Angus Council residents will increase by 6.7% in April after proposals were agreed by councillors this week. The increase, which will take the average weekly rent above £80 for the first time, was described as “absolutely necessary” as a special communities committee

Angus Council has put forward plans for 21 new council houses on the site of razed blocks of Arbroath flats. The local authority said the Fraser Path site will become a high-quality development of flats and cottages, including sought-after one-bedroom homes.

The Sheriff Appeal Court has refused an appeal by a housing developer against a sheriff’s summary decree ordering it to pay £100,000 to a local authority as part of an agreement concerning a local housing development the authority granted it planning permission for. Guild Homes (Tayside)

Plans are being progressed to convert what was once Monifieth Public School into 20 council homes.

The process of offering permanent or temporary housing to people who had to leave their homes in Brechin because of the Storm Babet floods will start today.

Angus Council is being sued for £500,000 after a tenant claimed his mouldy home left him with “serious health issues”. Hamish Isard said the local authority is in breach of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 which “requires that the house is wind and water tight and in

Angus Council has appointed Kathryn Lindsay as its new chief executive officer. Currently the council's director of children, families and justice and chief social work officer, Ms Lindsay's promotion follows the retiral announcement of Margo Williamson.

Angus Council has said it was "absolutely overwhelmed" by all the kind offers of accommodation it had received to help those displaced by flooding due to Storm Babet.

A new Community Development Conference which aims to inform, inspire, and support the community groups of Angus who have aspirations to deliver community-led projects will take place this month  This free event is a celebration of a successful Community Development Programme of Support. Co

Arbroath’s £12 million flood protection scheme was officially declared open by Máiri McAllan MSP, cabinet secretary for transport, net zero and just transition, at a ceremony at St Vigeans yesterday.

Margo Williamson has announced her retirement as chief executive of Angus Council. Margo has worked for Angus Council since 2013, initially as strategic director of people before becoming the first female chief executive in Angus in 2017.

A Dundee sheriff has granted decree of absolvitor to the former partner of a man who sought a five-figure sum from her on the basis that he had given it to her to allow her grandmother to buy her council house, in which he had expected to eventually live with her.

The Angus Place Prosperity Programme is now live. Funded by the UK Shared Prosperity Fund and the Scottish Government Place-Based Fund, the programme is aimed at supporting communities in taking ownership or redeveloping land or buildings. It can also help to deliver community-led projects.