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Affordable housing given the green light in Skye

Source: https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/

Highland Council have approved plans for six new affordable houses in the north-east of Skye – the first of their kind in almost 20 years.The application indicates plans for the construction of the three-bedroom houses on a piece of common land currently tenanted by the Stenscholl crofting township in Staffin.The homes will be provided by the Staffin Community Trust (SCT), in partnership with Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust and Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association; becoming the first to be built in the district since 1999.