Land for 155 new properties throughout Ayr, Prestwick and Troon has been added to South Ayrshire Council’s plans.
It comes because the native authority says it'll take a decade to clear a ready listing of greater than 1,300 households needing new housing.
Six new tranches of land have been designated as a part of South Ayrshire Council’s proposed Native Improvement Plan 2.
There are at present greater than 1,328 households in want of latest housing, a ready listing that may take a decade to clear.
The council has estimated a necessity for between 1536 and 1762 homes – each non-public and social housing – will likely be wanted by 2040, between 190 and 210 yearly.
The websites, and indicative variety of homes, included within the proposed Native Improvement Plan, which has been submitted to the Scottish Authorities.
They're:
- Dunlop Terrace, Ayr – 10 properties
- Westwood Avenue, Ayr -25 properties
- Afton Avenue and Afton Park, Prestwick – 25 properties
- St Cuthbert Golf Membership, Prestwick – 45 properties
- Aldersyde Avenue, Troon – 20 properties
- Buchan Highway, Troon – 30 properties
In three of the areas earmarked for housing, kids’s play areas would require to be relocated – at Dunlop Terrace and Westwood Avenue in Ayr, and Buchan Highway in Troon.
Below the brand new plan, bike parking and open areas are included throughout the websites.
In Westwood Avenue a neighborhood backyard at Overmills Neighborhood Centre can be included.
At Afton Avenue and Afton Park, Prestwick, the proposed plan states that open area will likely be upgraded, and a outside fitness center and kids’s play space can be put in.
Troon’s Aldersyde Avenue would additionally see an outside fitness center and casual play provision, whereas Buchan Highway would have a communal backyard across the Burns Highway and Scott Crescent flats.
These new websites add to a complete allocation of land for housing, adopted within the present LDP in 2014. This supplied for 1864 new properties.
The council’s housing wants evaluation breaks the figures into the forms of lodging it believes will likely be required.
Yearly, the evaluation states, as much as 79 owner-occupier, 69, non-public rented, 55 social rented, and 7 mid-market rented properties will likely be required.
The council say it'll take a decade to clear the 1,328 households at present in want of latest housing, not bearing in mind any future calls for on South Ayrshire’s housing inventory.
Plenty of standards are used to find out the variety of households with a housing want, specifically, homeless or in non permanent lodging, overcrowded households, wheelchair customers in unsuitable properties, those that want floor flooring lodging and people in poor high quality housing.
In its housing wants evaluation, the council states: “Whereas current want may theoretically be addressed in 8-10 years primarily based on anticipated [housing] website begins, we imagine it could be extra prudent to set a interval of 10-12 years to clear Current Want.”
South Ayrshire additionally has the next common age and likewise has an estimated 46 % of households having somebody who's both long run sick or disabled – impacting on the kind of housing they want.
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The evaluation doesn't take account of demolitions, such because the proposed alternative of the Riverside Place flats, dedication to assist refugee programmes or different conditions that will affect the wants sooner or later.
The inclusion of the brand new housing launch websites ties into the council’s obligation to take care of a transparent ‘5 12 months provide of housing to satisfy demand’.
The LDP 2 proposal would additionally require anybody in search of to construct a non-housing growth on these websites to indicate they'd have environmental, financial or social advantages or encourage regeneration.
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