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Plans approved for new housing blocks at former Galashiels church site

Source: https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/

Scottish Borders Council has approved plans to build two new housing blocks on the site of a former Galashiels church.Twenty affordable homes will be constructed across two separate buildings on a site located in-between Gala Park to the north east and St Andrew’s Street to the west, on land where the B-listed St Aidan’s Church and church hall once stood.One three and four-storey block is to be home to 15 flats and a second two-storey complex will have four terraced townhouses with one flat above them, the Peeblesshire News reports.Cubby Construction is behind the plans, with Camerons Strachan Yuill Architects having drawn up the plans for the firm.In his report recommending approval, council planning officer Scott Shearer addresses those concerns.