A MULTI-MILLION pound plan to build 1,000 new affordable homes across Renfrewshire has been given the green light.

Johnstone, Renfrew, Paisley and Bishopton are among the towns that will benefit from the five-year blueprint.

Details were revealed after Renfrewshire Council approved the area’s latest Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP), which sets out where the local authority and its housing association partners plan to build between now and 2027.

More than £90million is set to be handed to the council by the Scottish Government to help build affordable housing in that time – and the SHIP sets out how that money will be used.

Some of the projects to be part-funded through the programme which are set for completion in 2022 or 2023 include 39 new council homes in Auchengreoch Road, Johnstone, and 101 in the Ferguslie Park area of Paisley.

Loretto Housing Association will build 58 social rented homes within Bishopton’s Dargavel Village, while Williamsbugh Housing Association will deliver a social housing development of 42 homes in Albert Road, Renfrew.

There will also be 131 homes in the Glenburn area of Paisley, delivered by Sanctuary Scotland and Paisley Housing Association, for social rent and low-cost ownership.

The plan also includes the next phase of a transformation of Paisley’s West End, with Sanctuary Scotland building 22 homes in Sutherland Street and 13 in Underwood Lane, and the final phase of work to bring the former Arnotts site in Paisley town centre back into use, with Link Group creating 81 flats.

Council chiefs say the new homes will build on the success of recently-completed developments such as an award-winning development of 95 properties in Johnstone Castle.

All of the new homes will be built to high energy-efficiency standards, helping residents save money on fuel bills and contributing to the area’s targets to tackle climate change.

Councillor Marie McGurk, convener of Renfrewshire’s communities, housing and planning board, said: “We want Renfrewshire to continue to thrive as an attractive place for people to live and to move to.

“Key to that is making sure there is a supply of new housing people can afford, whether buying one or as a tenant of the council or one of our housing association partners.

“This plan sets out how we will do that, while making sure there is a range of different size and type of house in each area.

“It’s a really positive plan for the future of housing in Renfrewshire and I look forward to seeing the projects it contains develop over the years ahead.”

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Five-year plan to build 1,000 new affordable homes in Renfrewshire gets green light

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A financial plan setting out how more than 1,000 new affordable homes will be built in Renfrewshire by 2027 has been given the go-ahead by councillors.