Comhairle Nan Eilean Siar

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has lodged plans to develop 74 new affordable homes on the Isle of Lewis. The social landlord wants to expand the existing Blackwater development on the edge of Newmarket.

Empty homes renovated under a scheme intended to ease pressure on housing stocks are being rented out to tourists in the Western Isles, according to a new report.

A major housing seminar looking at innovative ways of increasing housing opportunities in Uist and Barra took place earlier this month in the Dark Island Hotel. The community-led housing seminar was organised by the Uist and Barra Housing Group and had the main theme of ‘Innovation and Ne

A local community benefit society which delivers the Home Energy Efficiency Programme: Area Based Scheme (HEEPS:ABS) to the Outer Hebrides is celebrating a national award. (from left) Top - Norman Kerr, OBE director of Energy Action Scotland and Stewart Wilson, TIG CEO. Bottom - Donald Mackinnon, TI

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar has published the latest update on its ongoing Affordable Housing Programme with ten developments on-site and are due for completion during 2019/20 – 20/21. The Goathill care home, housing and housing with extra care project is now well under way with preliminary engi

Comhairle nan Eilean Siar (CnES) and Skills Development Scotland (SDS) will help apprentices in the Western Isles access low-cost housing with the creation of a new charter. The charter is a first of its kind for Scotland, outlining how the two organisations will work together to increase oppor

A new affordable housing development on the Isle of Lewis was officially opened last week. (from left) Norman Macleod (chair, HHP), Ms Campbell (resident), David Mackay, Dena Macleod (chief executive HHP), Katrina Rowlands (development manager, HHP), Matthew Hebditch (development officer, Tighean In

The local authority for the Western Isles of Scotland has called for a comprehensive funding review of how rural housing is funded and delivered for the islands. Councillor Donald Crichton, chairman of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s joint consultative committee on crofting, called for joined-up t

Work to transform land adjacent to a Stornoway farm into a new care facility and affordable homes has began in earnest. View from Perceval Road

The chairman of the Uist Economic Taskforce Working Group, Councillor Iain Archie MacNeil, has called for a Housing Seminar to be held in Uist in early Autumn to begin to develop innovative solutions to address housing issues in Uist and Barra. The call follows the latest meeting of the Uist Economi

Four new affordable housing developments started in Lewis and Harris this spring under the Affordable Housing Programme in the Outer Hebrides. The programme is supported by Scottish Government and delivered via a successful partnership between Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, Hebridean Housing Partnership

A homelessness prevention project is under way to investigate ways to improve the performance of section 11 notices in the north and islands of Scotland. Whenever a landlord raises proceedings to end a tenancy, by law they must serve to the relevant local authority a section 11 notice, to allow the

Aileen Campbell, cabinet secretary for communities and local government, officially opened a new Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) development during a visit to the Outer Hebrides last week. The 12 flats built by Lewis Builders on the site of the former Stag Bakeries in Stornoway are now named Lan

(from left) Iain Watson (housing services manager, CnES), Kenny John Macleod (local member for the An Taobh Siar Agus Nis ward and chair of the communities and housing committee), Dena Macleod (chief executive, HHP), Alasdair Allan MSP (SNP Member of the Scottish Parliament for Na h-Eileanan an Iar)

A site at Blackwater on the Isle of Lewis has been identified as potential space for new affordable housing. The site is located adjacent to the existing Gleann Dubh development.