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09/03/2015

20 New Highland Homes Completed

The Highland Council has completed the construction of 20 new council homes in Aviemore as part of plans to build 888 new homes by 2017.

Located in the Cairngorms National Park, the twenty homes were built on the site of a former community centre. The rental properties are spread over three floors and make up one of the tallest buildings in Aviemore.

They have been named after local skier Alain Baxter.

Chair of the Council's Planning, Development and Infrastructure Committee, Councillor Thomas Prag said: "I am delighted to see this site redeveloped to provide much needed new housing for Aviemore. It is not easy to find good quality affordable housing and I am pleased that these new homes are built to such high energy efficient standards and by local contractors.

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"The Administration has set an ambitious but achievable target to build just under 900 new affordable homes by 2017 and these new flats are a welcome addition to this target."

Being off-gas, each of the new homes uses electric heating, solar panels and has been built to energy efficient building standards.

The homes were built by Allan Munro Construction and the architect was Keppie Design.

The cost for the twenty flats was £2.280m,with £600,000 in grant monies from the Scottish Government.

(IT/JP)

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