Aberdeenshire council plans to spend £150m on building homes for social rent, shared ownership and mid-market rent
Aberdeenshire council’s ambitions to build more than 2,300 affordable homes, including nearly 2,000 social rent homes, over the next five years have met with a positive response from the Scottish government.
The local authority hopes to invest £150m in the building programme, which it said could see a total of 2,354 homes built across the county, with 1,949 being allocated for social rent.
Nearly 600 of those would be suitable for households with what the council called “particular needs”, while a further 79 would be fully accessible for wheelchair users.
The council also proposed building an additional 279 homes for low-cost shared ownership and 126 for mid-market rent.
Aberdeenshire said the Scottish government had noted its strategic housing investment plan “clearly fits” with the authority’s local housing strategy.
Anne Stirling, chair of Aberdeenshire council’s communities committee, said the feedback from Holyrood was “encouraging”.
She went on: “As well as setting out our investment priorities, the document also demonstrates how these will be delivered, the resources required to deliver them, and how we will involve our key partners.
“We look forward to these homes taking shape over the next few years.”
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