​Developers hand over keys to 12 brand new social homes

Twelve new homes are to be handed over to Edinburgh families after Muirhouse Housing Association was handed the keys to the newly completed properties by developers.

The homes form part of a £15.3 million investment in the city’s Muirhouse area.

This includes a £5.7m funding package from Bank of Scotland alongside over £3m of grant funding from the Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme.

A second phase of the development will provide 64 flats for local families, split between 28 units for social rent and 36 units for mid-market rent, will be completed in July 2015.

This is a continuation of the initial phase which completed in 2014 and takes the number of affordable homes built in the development in up to 120 properties in an area which was regarded as one of Edinburgh’s most deprived areas.

Commenting on the development Michael Woods, chairman of Muirhouse Housing Association, said: “This is great news for Muirhouse and its residents. The new development provides much needed homes and helps with the wider regeneration of the area.

“We were overwhelmed with interest for our first phase of this project and so it is with huge satisfaction that we can again expand the capacity of our existing stock of 506 homes for those in need, thanks to support from Bank of Scotland and the Scottish Government.”