COUNCILLORS have voiced fears that plans to increase the islands’ housing stock could be hampered by high goods prices and demand for tradespeople outstripping supply in the coming months and years. The council – along with Hjaltland Housing and private developers – aims.
A NEW children’s home in Tingwall will soon be ready to house young Shetlanders are part of a partnership between Hjaltland Trading and Shetland Islands Council (SIC). The new home, located within Hjaltland Housing Association’s Gaet-a-Gott site a few miles outside Lerwick,.
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SHETLAND Islands Councilâs housing investment plan for the next five years is ânot a programme for centralisationâ, despite much of the accommodation being planned for Lerwick.
That was the view of the councilâs housing manager Anita Jamieson at a meeting of the local authorityâs development committee on Tuesday.
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The councilâs strategic housing investment plan looks ahead to how new housing will be supplied in the isles, and it is refreshed on an annual basis.
The latest incarnation of the plan was approved by members of the development committee.