Argyll and Bute Council’s housing services team brought a total of 55 empty homes back into use last year – double the annual target.
Members of the council’s Community Services Committee last week also heard how 1,037 households faced with becoming homeless avoided the situation due to the help and support they received from the local authority – four per cent more than the annual target. Seventy-five affordable homes have been built via the Strategic Housing Improvement Plan. This brings the total built in the first two years of the Local Housing Strategy for 2016-2021 to 228, exceeding the target of 100 per annum.