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Leona Greenan

Green light for council to build thousands of new homes across the region

Thousands of new affordable homes are to be built in South Lanarkshire.

At a meeting of the council's housing and technical resources committee officials approved the Strategic Housing Investment Plan for 2022 to 2027.

It wil see a total of 2266 affordable homes built across the region over the next five years, including 861 in the Hamilton area and 241 in Clydesdale.

This forms part of the Scottish Government’s commitment to build 110,000 affordable homes by 2032.

A further 340 homes are to be bought under the area’s Open Market Purchasing Scheme.

Lanark and Hamilton East MP Angela Crawley has welcomed the plans.

Angela Crawley MP (Daily Record)

She told Lanarkshire Live: "I am pleased to see South Lanarkshire Council committing to build more than 2200 affordable homes – including hundreds in Lanark and Hamilton East.

"This is very welcome news and will go some way to protecting and creating jobs in the construction sector as well as providing much-needed social housing.

"Increasing council-house building will also boost our recovery from the coronavirus pandemic by providing jobs in Lanark and Hamilton East and stimulating the local economy."

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