Argyll And Bute Council

Argyll and Bute Council’s housing services team brought a total of 55 empty homes back into use last year – double the annual target. The team’s successes were highlighted at last week’s community services committee meeting.

Argyll and Bute Council has secured a grant worth around £1.6m to help make energy efficiency improvements in local homes. It will help residents install external/internal wall insulation, underfloor insulation, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation.

Residents are being invited to find out more information and submit their views over plans to introduce Simplified Planning Zones (SPZ) in Argyll and Bute. Argyll and Bute Council is proposing to implement SPZs at Salen on Mull and in Lochgilphead.

It will be business as usual for some of Campbeltown’s best-known shops and businesses as a £0.5 million refurbishment project, facilitated by Argyll and Bute Council, begins. Scaffolding is going up and work starts on Monday on 22-30 Main Street and 2-8 Longrow in the centre of town. In all six

ACHA on site providing 32 new homes at Castle Wood, Helensburgh Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has announced plans to invest £24.5 million in its existing stock and its new build programme during 2018/19.

A public information event is being held by Argyll and Bute Council to give advice on housing issues. The event, in partnership with Helensburgh Community Council, is taking place at Victoria Halls in Helensburgh on February 15.

Construction work to deliver 95 new homes at the former Hermitage Academy in Helensburgh is to start within the next few weeks after the site was sold to a national housebuilder. Argyll and Bute Council has granted planning permission for the development of two, three and four bedroom family homes f

The development forms part of the Dunbeg and Ganavan Masterplan Argyll and Bute Council has been awarded £1.9 million from the Scottish Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund to upgrade Kirk Road.

Brendan O’Hara MP for Argyll and Bute unveils the plaque to open ACHA’s 30th new build home in Connel Brendan O’Hara, MP for Argyll and Bute, has opened new Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) homes in the village of Connel on the outskirts of Oban.

Residents are being encouraged to submit their views on how future development should look in Argyll and Bute. The council is in the process of consulting on a new Local Development Plan (LDP) and people are being invited to 'have their say' before the consultation deadline on 11 December.

ACHA chair, Jim Milne, new tenants Lucy Williams Bale and Brian McMahon with their daughter Maisie and Eleanor Smith’s daughter and son Ceris Smith and Aidan Dunley, accompanied by Councillor Robin Currie and ACHA’s chief executive, Alastair MacGregor Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA)

Argyll and Bute Council has revealed plans to build more than 760 new affordable homes in the next five years. The housing will be delivered as part of the council's Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

Councillor Robin Currie officially opening ACHA’s new homes accompanied by Douglas Prophet, the Association’s vice-chair, Alastair MacGregor, chief executive, and new tenants Randolph Anderson and Darran Jamieson Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has officially opened its first new bui

Argyll and Bute Council is hosting events in Dunoon and Bute this month to enable members of the public to get information and advice on housing issues. The drop in sessions are being held to celebrate Scottish Housing Day and will take place in various towns across the area.

Link Group Ltd’s development at Beinn Dubh View in Luss has been officially opened by Councillor Robin Currie, Argyll and Bute Council’s policy lead for communities, housing, islands and Gaelic. The £1.045 million construction of five homes for social rent commenced in September 2016, using £5