Council homes to be created at new Lanarkshire development

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Fifty new council houses for rent are to be created at a major new-build Lanarkshire housing development.The affordable properties form part of Taylor Wimpey’s 200-home Oakwood Grove development in Hamilton, and will be handed over on completion to South Lanarkshire Council.Included will be a mixture of one and two-bedroomed cottage flats, two and three-bedroomed terraced and semi-detached houses plus four-bedroomed detached properties.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.

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Following a similar arrangement at the housebuilder’s Benthall Farm development in East Kilbride, where 67 properties were provided for social rent late last year, the council will go on to take ownership of “turnkey” homes which are ready to move into on the day keys are exchanged.Councillor McLachlan, who was joined at the ground-breaking by local authority and Taylor Wimpey representatives, said: “These new homes will be a welcome addition to meet the varying needs of the people of South Lanarkshire.“This development at Brackenhill Farm,