Argyll And Bute Council

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Argyll and Bute Council is giving householders the opportunity to make their homes more energy efficient as a result of the Scottish Government’s Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland: Area Based Scheme (HEEPS: ABS). The council has been awarded a grant of £1,669,978 to help residents ma

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The award-winning renovation at 50-52 Main Street An Argyll and Bute Council project to save a semi-derelict and vacant tenement building in Campbeltown town centre from demolition and bring it back to life has won two awards in the National Empty Homes Awards 2017.

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Argyll and Bute Council is holding a housing advice surgery in Tarbert later this month to answer any questions people may have about social and private rented accommodation. During the surgery people will be able to apply for social housing through HOMEArgyll - the Common Housing Register which inc

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The number of homeless applications received by Argyll and Bute Council has fallen by 15% since 2012. Figures show that 47% of households given housing options advice at an early stage were assisted to remain in their current accommodation.

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Eleven more local authorities in Scotland have set their respective budgets for the upcoming year, four of which have opted for a voluntary freeze in Council Tax. Aberdeen City Council set its 2017/18 budget and outlined plans for the next phase of its transformation programme.

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Michael Russell MSP cuts the ribbon to open ACHA’s homes in Dunoon with new tenants Sammy Ritchie and Carol Black Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has just completed five new family homes at Victoria Park, Dunoon.

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A document which sets out Argyll and Bute Council’s shared vision and investment priorities for the area’s housing sector over the next five years has been submitted to the Scottish Government for ministerial approval. The Local Housing Strategy was developed in partnership with the Scottish Gov

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Plans have been approved to build a new social housing development in Oban. The application for six two-storey houses east of Hayfield brings the number of units on that site to 18, all of which are affordable - significantly more than the 25 per cent which is required in the council’s local devel

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Frances Snee, empty homes adviser at Shelter Scotland, visits Argyll to see the successful completion of an empty home renovation. I was lucky enough to go on a day trip across the water to Dunoon the other week. I’d been invited by Argyll and Bute’s Empty Homes Officer Kelly Ferns. Kelly was in

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Link Group Ltd’s new development at Dunbeg, Oban has been officially opened by Argyll and Bute Council’s policy lead for strategic housing, Gaelic, community and culture, Councillor Robin Currie. The £3.5 million construction of 25 homes for social rent commenced in February 2015, using £1.6m

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Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has completed 10 new homes in Connel near Oban. The development provides a mixture of family homes for rent and will be named after the late Harry Powell, who passed away this year and was a stalwart of the local community, giving over 50 years voluntary s

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