East Ayrshire Council

Councillor Jim McMahon has performed the official opening of East Ayrshire Council’s new assisted living housing development – Quarry Knowe Court in Auchinleck, unveiling a plaque to mark the special occasion.

Applications for the Single East Ayrshire Common Housing Register (SEARCH) are now available online. Online SEARCH is a new platform developed by East Ayrshire Council in partnership with software company MRI. New applicants can now create an account, apply for housing, manage their application, vie

Visitors from East Ayrshire Council were welcomed by Mr McCluskey to view his new home at Witch Road, Kilmarnock. The council’s housing development at Witch Road in Central North, Kilmarnock includes 43 new homes for older ambulant disabled residents built by the council’s strategic deve

An event to mark the completion of New Cumnock’s £8.97 million flood protection works was held yesterday, with guests getting the chance to see the culmination of almost two years’ work that will protect residential and commercial properties near the Afton Water and River Nith. Cou

A consultation by the Single East Ayrshire Register for Community Housing (SEARCH) partners – namely Atrium Homes, Cunninghame Housing Association, East Ayrshire Council, Riverside Scotland Housing Association and Shire Housing Association, on proposed changes to the Common Allocation Policy

The ground has been officially broken at East Ayrshire Council and CCG (Scotland)’s new housing development on Kilmarnock Road, Mauchline. The site includes an assisted living development and three wheelchair-accessible bungalows, which are being built for the East Ayrshire Health and Social C

A wide-ranging plan to reduce the risk of flooding across Ayrshire has been published.

Barratt West Scotland and East Ayrshire Council have partnered on its first affordable housing project to bring 21 affordable housing units within the grounds of a new housing development at The Scholars in Kilmarnock. The affordable houses were delivered as part of a larger private housing developm

East Ayrshire Council has approved plans for a new 95-home housing development at Dalshalloch Wood near the village of Auchinleck. In February this year, LMA Architects submitted an application on behalf of Fitzsimmons Construction Ltd seeking permission for 95 homes on the Mauchline Road site at Da

Three new board members have been appointed to support the work of the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) in Scotland. Kerry Clayton, governance and compliance manager at Elderpark Housing, Helen Merriman, housing services manager at East Ayrshire Council, and Paul Scott, director of operations at

Russell Roof Tiles has supplied sustainable and long-lasting concrete roof tiles to support the vital re-roofing of a social housing project in East Ayrshire. The upgrade project has been delivered by A.C. Whyte, an energy efficiency contractor in the major refurbishment of social housing for local

Allan Dorans MP visited Phase 2 of New Cumnock’s £8.97 million flood protection works recently to receive an update from the Ayrshire Roads Alliance and the main contractor, Wills Bros Civil Engineering Ltd. Mr Dorans was joined onsite by Councillor Neal Ingram, cabinet spokesperson for

Work is officially underway on a large-scale affordable housing development in Bridgehousehill, Kilmarnock.

An app to help the owners of shared properties in Edinburgh repair their buildings has been so successful in its first year it is already being rolled out by two other local authorities in Scotland. Developed by the City of Edinburgh Council with tech company Novoville, a new app launched in April l

A public consultation is being held on a new housing development proposed for Kennedy Drive in Kilmarnock.