By Aileen Maclennan
Councillors have agreed a list of actions to help address the housing shortage in Argyll and Bute.
Last year, Argyll and Bute Council became the first local authority to declare a housing emergency and, shortly afterwards, it hosted a Housing Emergency Summit with over 90 key stakeholders to identify and prioritise a range of actions and potential solutions to address the issue.
Together they produced a Housing Summit Action Plan to outline the next steps and today (Thursday) councillors approved these during a meeting of the Environment, Development and Infrastructure Committee.
The council and its partners will deliver the actions over five years. Many of these are already underway and address four priority categories:
- Enable the delivery of more market homes in Argyll and Bute
- Enable the delivery of more affordable homes in Argyll and Bute
- Enable the delivery of more homes for Argyll and Bute’s workforce
- Make the best use of existing homes in Argyll and Bute
The Housing Summit Action Plan will go forward to the Full Council later this year for inclusion in the updated Local Housing Strategy Action Programme.
Picture: Rosneath Peninsula from Helensburgh.
The SNP over their term in government built tens of thousands of social houses. Just look at all the new houses in Dumbarton and the Vale – Haldane, High Dykes, Ladyton, Bellsmyre, Brucehill, Castlehill, Dumbarton Quayside and more.
Labour by comparison in in the 90’s built no social houses. And of course under Salmond the Scottish Government built hundreds of new schools – Vale of Leven Academy, Dumbarton Academy and OLSP plus many many new primary schools.
Labour by comparison built none.
Then their is prescriptions and tuition fees. The SNP ditched prescription fees and tuition fees. Under Labour both will be back. But of course they’ve never been away in England.
And so, as the media berates the SNP and the Greens, and there are good grounds to berate them, just consider the alternatives before anyone jumps or sits neglecting to vote.