{"id":82276,"date":"2020-09-10T11:05:38","date_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=82276"},"modified":"2020-09-10T11:05:38","modified_gmt":"2020-09-10T10:05:38","slug":"500-new-homes-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/500-new-homes-in-scotland\/82276\/","title":{"rendered":"Caledonia Housing commits \u00a340m for 500 new homes in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.caledoniaha.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Caledonia Housing Association<\/a> has announced a \u00a340m injection for new homes in Scotland, from Inverness, through Tayside and within West Dunbartonshire<\/h2>\n<p>A further \u00a335m is earmarked for another nine sites where land has already been purchased or negotiations are ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>In total, Caledonia is on target to deliver 500 homes, the majority for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/modular-construction-news\/mmc-for-social-housing\/81811\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">social rent<\/a>, by mid-2022. A total of 271 homes are currently under construction.<\/p>\n<p>The first completed development is expected to be handed back to Caledonia this autumn from the contractors. Some of the homes at Monarch\u2019s Rise in Arbroath are available to buyers who meet specific criteria to qualify for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www2.gov.scot\/Topics\/Built-Environment\/Housing\/BuyingSelling\/lift\/FTBNSSES#:~:text=Under%20the%20New%20Supply%20Shared,buy%20new%20homes%20for%20sale.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Scottish Government New Supply Shared Equity scheme<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative offers people who are unable to afford open market housing the opportunity to buy their own home at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p>A further 233 homes on nine different sites are also in the pipeline for Caledonia Housing.<\/p>\n<p>Of particular note is a development at Milton of Leys, in South Inverness \u2013 continuing the Association\u2019s expansion in the city \u2013 with the support of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.highland.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Highland Council<\/a> to build 21 homes for social rent as part of a wider development by Tulloch Homes. This contract is expected to be signed by the end of September.<\/p>\n<h3>Kick-start Scotland\u2019s recovery<\/h3>\n<p>Andrew Kilpatrick, development director at Caledonia Housing Association, said: \u201cLike 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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEveryone we are working with local authorities, private housebuilders and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/support-subcontractors\/79064\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subcontractors<\/a> 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\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/scottish-clfs-recovery-plan\/82145\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">economic recovery<\/a> as quickly as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caledonia Housing Association has announced a \u00a340m injection for new homes in Scotland, from Inverness, through Tayside and within West Dunbartonshire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[666,676,997,908,572,656,570],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-affordable-housing","8":"tag-construction","9":"tag-development","10":"tag-economy","11":"tag-housebuilding","12":"tag-housing","13":"tag-social-housing"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Caledonia Housing commits \u00a340m for 500 new homes in Scotland<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Caledonia Housing has announced a \u00a340m injection for new homes in Scotland, from Inverness, through Tayside and within West Dunbartonshire\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/500-new-homes-in-scotland\/82276\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Caledonia Housing commits \u00a340m for 500 new homes in Scotland\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Caledonia Housing has announced a \u00a340m injection for new homes in Scotland, from Inverness, through Tayside and within West Dunbartonshire\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/500-new-homes-in-scotland\/82276\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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