Glasgow approves £500m housing plan

Glasgow council has approved a plan to invest £500m to bring forward more than 8,000 affordable homes in the city by 2025.

The council voted late last week to push ahead with its Strategic Housing and Investment Plan, backed by £500m of Scottish Government funding for affordable housing, which will be invested in 175 separate schemes.

In total the city wants to see 15,000 homes built in the five years between 2017-2022. Under the investment plan, 10% of homes must be readily wheelchair adaptable, and a minimum of 60 four bed-plus homes must be built each year.

The investment plan also sets out proposals to improve existing council and housing association stock in the city, and works alongside a £665m plan to regenerate eight deprived areas with new housing, and a £1bn city deal which will provide infrastructure to unlock housing sites.

Councillor Kenny McLean, city convener for neighbourhoods, housing and public realm at the council, said the strategy was designed to createthe sustainable and inclusive mixed-tenure communities that will allow Glasgow to thrive in the future. “The approval of the Strategic Housing Investment Plan means we can move to the next stage of delivering thousands of these homes to Glasgow over the next five years, with all the inclusive growth, economic, social and environmental benefits that this will bring,” he said.

Full details are available on the Glasgow council website.