Inverness affordable housing contract to be signed this month

Affordable housing provider Caledonia Housing Association is to create new homes at Milton of Leys as part of a £70 million national building programme.

The 21 home development in South Inverness will be built with the support of Highland Council as part of a wider development by Tulloch Homes. The contract for the social rent project is expected to be signed by the end of September and is part of the association's continued expansion in the Highlands.

The project is among the nine future developments Caledonia Housing Association is investing £35 million to bring to completion and follows a £40 million spend on seven current housing projects.

In total, Caledonia is on target to deliver 500 homes, the majority for social rent, by mid-2022.

Andrew Kilpatrick, development director at Caledonia Housing Association, said: “Like other developers, our plans for 2020 were interrupted by the pandemic but it is now full steam ahead. We are much encouraged by the speed of the upturn. Everyone we are working with - local authorities, private housebuilders and sub-contractors - is doing their utmost to help and we hope that the construction of these new affordable homes and the resultant creation of jobs will help kick start Scotland’s economic recovery as quickly as possible.”

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