Biggest council housing investment for a generation planned in North Lanarkshire

North Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to build a further 1,000 new councils homes to help tackle its housing waiting list.The local authority is set to approve the £160 million development project which will add to the 800 new properties to which the authority has already committed over the next ten years. More than 600 have already been built or are in the process of being constructed.The council said the announcement marks the greatest investment in Scottish council housing for decades.The size of the council’s waiting list is second only to Edinburgh and South Lanarkshire, though in the past two years it has fallen from about 13,000 to just over 12,000.Around 1,900 homelessness applications were made in North Lanarkshire between 2015-16.A report to the committee set out the criteria for the sites of the 1,000 additional homes.The recommendations were the result of months of work by a member/officer group chaired by Councillor Peter Sullivan.