The approval of the compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) for the houses – at 14 Stewarton Road in Thornliebank and 96 Woodville Street in Ibrox – and at flats at 785 and 938 Dumbarton Road in Whiteinch, means that four long-term empty homes will now be brought back to productive use.

The Stewarton Road property will now be transferred to Wheatley Homes Glasgow, which will carry out extensive repairs and refurbishment to the house, removing a blight to the local community and providing additional social housing in the area. The other house at Woodville Street - a large family home - will be repaired and used as social housing by Linthouse Housing Association.

The 785 and 938 Dumbarton Road flats will be transferred to Whiteinch and Scotstoun Housing Association, which will repair them - both are in a state of disrepair having lain empty for almost nine years – and use as social homes.

Funding for these acquisitions (where compensation is claimed) and transfer to housing association ownership will be made available from the Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly, convener for Housing and Development at Glasgow City Council, said: “The housing emergency facing Glasgow demands that we use all the powers at our disposal and work with housing associations to add to the city’s supply of social housing. The approval of the compulsory purchase of these houses and flats increases this while tackling local blight in our communities, and we can look forward to yet more empty homes being brought back to life.”

Former Davislea Care Home

The committee also gave approval to negotiate the disposal of land - at the former Davislea Care Home at 100 Mallaig Road in Drumoyne - to Linthouse Housing Association to build new social housing.

Negotiations with the housing association will now begin on three parcels of land on the site, and if successful, this disposal would allow a total of 38 homes for social housing to be built there by the housing association.

The three parcels of land measure 0.63 acres and adjoin the site of the former care home.

This land was declared surplus to council requirements on 20 January.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly added: “Today’s decision to begin negotiations with Linthouse Housing Association is good news for this part of Glasgow and the wider city. The disposal of this land would both bring 38 much needed homes for social housing and generate a capital receipt for the council in a challenging environment for public finances.”