Falkirk Council

Falkirk could see one of Scotland’s largest transfers of property to the community if councillors approve plans later this month. A report to a council meeting set for 31 January will recommend that officers progress with a plan to pass on 25 properties the council no longer requires to groups

Falkirk Council’s Executive Committee has agreed that Grangemouth Flood Protection Scheme which is Scotland’s largest flood scheme can proceed to the statutory notification stage after it considered an update report yesterday.

Falkirk’s elected members are to hear of the progress and required next steps to deliver on the Grangemouth Flood Protection Scheme, the largest project of its kind in Scotland.

A new app designed to help tenement flat owners repair and maintain the common areas of their block has been launched in Falkirk.

A new five-year Local Housing Strategy was approved by elected members of Falkirk Council at this week's Executive meeting which sets out a housing supply target for 2023-2028 to deliver a total of 2,600 new homes. 

A new initiative will see Falkirk Council’s welfare advisers give out free money advice at local health centres. The Welfare Advice and Health Partnerships project aims to improve the health and wellbeing of citizens while freeing up the time of medical practitioners, by embedding expert advic

A new five-year Local Housing Strategy will be presented to elected members at next week’s Falkirk Council Executive for consideration.

Falkirk Council’s new climate change strategy is to be considered by councillors at a meeting of the Executive next week.

A major project is set to get underway shortly which will provide around 700 council homes with the option to connect to the gas network for the first time.

Falkirk Council has approved three key strategies that will support the delivery of the council's priorities this week.

Clark Contracts is currently on site constructing a new council housing development on the site of the former Oakbank Care Home on Wilson Avenue, Polmont for Falkirk Council.

A meeting of Falkirk Council’s executive next week will hear how dozens of local community organisations and groups have been helped over the past three years by the Community Choices initiative.

A proposal to dispose of land for housing development will be considered by a meeting of Falkirk Council’s Executive next week. It has been put forward that a site north of Glasgow Road in Dennyloanhead will be sold to MacTaggart & Mickel Group for a purchase price of £1.552 mil

Eight private properties in St Crispin’s Place in Falkirk have been brought back from the brink of demolition, undergoing an astounding transformation thanks to the hard work of Falkirk Council’s Empty Homes team. Built around the early 1900s, the properties had lain empty for extended p

More than 300 residents and local business owners attended Falkirk Council’s masterplan event keen to see a vision of how the town centre could change and develop over the next 20 years. Even before the doors opened at 11am on Thursday, 22 June, a queue of people snaked around Trinity Church.