North Ayrshire Council

Councillors will learn about the significant financial challenges facing North Ayrshire Council over the coming years at a special meeting this week. The local authority will be required to deliver significant savings for 2025 to 2026 amid an expected budget gap of £16 million.

Stevenston Community Council has created its own development plan for their local area. Local Place Plans provide communities with an opportunity to feed into the planning system with their own ideas and proposals for the development and use of land.

An ambitious drive is underway to reduce the number of children living in poverty across North Ayrshire. In June last year, North Ayrshire Council’s cabinet approved the Child Poverty Plan 2023-26, which is a joint plan involving various partners and is a statutory requirement of the Scottish

North Ayrshire Council is making significant progress on its Council Plan priorities including surpassing its empty home and new build housing targets.

Ashleigh Construction (Scotland) Limited has been awarded a contract valued at £50 million for the construction of more than 200 homes at the maternity ward at Ayrshire Central Hospital.

North Ayrshire Council is working with staff in secondary schools to ensure parents are accessing welfare benefits they are entitled to. Over the past two years, Welfare Rights Officer Audrey Ritchie has been offering parents and carers free, impartial, and confidential benefits advice and she has h

North Ayrshire Council wants to hear from residents who need financial support to make their homes more energy efficient. The council’s Energy Smart programme of energy efficiency measures supports privately owned and private tenant households on low incomes to boost insulation at their proper

Construction work is underway on the latest new council homes to be built in Ardrossan and Irvine.

Residents and interested parties are being invited to ‘Meet the Builder’ for the latest North Ayrshire Council housing development in the Garnock Valley.

Local residents, businesses and other interested parties are being invited to a ‘Meet the Builder’ event and to view plans for the redevelopment of the historic King’s Arms Hotel in Irvine. A total of six new homes are planned as part of the transformation of the High Street landma

Connect Modular has successfully delivered the first six houses to its new 14-home affordable housing development programme for North Ayrshire Council.

The upgraded sheltered housing accommodation has officially been re-opened at Barnett Court in Saltcoats.

Work is progressing rapidly to create 26 new council homes on the site of the former St Mary’s Primary School in Largs. Once complete, the development will be a natural extension to the neighbouring 123-unit Flatt Road development which was completed in 2022.

The Largs Food Hub has been launched providing local residents access to a variety of low-cost produce, including tinned foods, dried goods, and personal hygiene products. This community food larder, part of North Ayrshire Council's Fairer Food network, opened its doors at Largs Library on 27 Februa

North Ayrshire Council has approved its budget for 2024/25 after a meeting of elected members. This was widely recognised as one of the most challenging budgets the council has had to set in recent times.