ACHA has been shortlisted in the “Working in Partnership” category and the “Excellence in Regeneration and Sustainability” category for its project at Eton Avenue, Dunoon.

The Association worked in partnership with Argyll and Bute Council Housing Services and Argyll and Bute Health and Social Care Partnership to build four specially designed and adapted wheelchair houses for families with particular needs on the Home Argyll housing waiting list. The properties were built by John Brown (Strone) Limited, and delivered through a funding partnership between Argyll and Bute Council, the Scottish Government and ACHA.

Cathy Grant, tenant chair of ACHA’s board of management, said: “These are fabulous new homes and have made such a different to the lives of the tenants who are living there. A recent appraisal noted that 100% of the new tenants agreed the overall condition of their new housing is much better than where they lived before which they described as stressful, miserable and bleak.

“It could not have been achieved without excellent partnership working with the Scottish Government, Argyll and Bute Council and the Health and Social Care Partnership who have been so supportive of what we were trying to achieve here. Thank you.”

The complete awards shortlist can be found here.