Green light to social housing
Association undertaking £4.5m project
Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association will build their first social homes in over two years after permission was given for a £ 4.5million project in Rutherglen.
Councillors on a planning committee yesterday, Tuesday , approved the creation of 21 flats and 16 cottage flats on the site of the former Glenroyal Nursery on Cathcart Road.
The homes will be primarily for elderly and disabled tenants.
Ruther glen and Cambuslang Housing Association currently has nearly 700 people on their waiting lists. In August, we reported that the current wait for a home was 14 years.
The Scottish Government are providing £2.5m of funding for the project.
Robert M cL eary, chairman of the association, told the Reformer: “We are delighted we have got the funding to take this project forward.
“This will certainly be a start to eating into our housing list.
“The last project we had was over two years ago in Halfway. Because of a reduction in subsidies we had not been able to build but the Scottish Government has now increased the subsidy levels. The other issue we have had is finding sites like this one.
“Our aim is to target mainly people who are elderly or disabled.”
The plan will comprise a three-storey building for the flats and a two-storey building for the cottage flats.
There was some opposition to the plans from local residents and six letters of objection were submitted.
However, council officers advised the committee that the development would have “minimal impact on the amenity of the surrounding area,” and complied with the local plan.
And Robert feels the project would actually improve the area.
“The site was an old nursery which has been derelict for a number of years,” he said.
“That in itself is causing problems and we will bring it back into use.”