Edinburgh Council has approved several developments across the city, bringing over 200 new affordable and council homes to the capital.
The projects are agreed upon for three sites - in Greendykes, Wester Hailes and Dreghorn - and have been approved by the council's Development Management Sub Committee.
In Greendykes, an agreement has been reached to add a further 140 homes - of which 74 will become council homes - as a final stage of a 15-year housing plan.
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In the area, the massive housing project promises to deliver 2,200 new homes - together with four schools, a park, a whole new town centre and an enormous retail space spanning across 300,000 sq ft.
In Wester Hailes, 41 council homes will be built as part of a 73-home development, panning out on a derelict site of the former Wester Hailes Health Centre, Murrayburn Gate.
The new houses will benefit from easy access to rail links and Canal View Primary School and enjoy the close proximity to the Westside Plaza shopping centre.
Finally, the Dreghorn development site - on which Edinburgh Live reported a few days ago on January 27 - will see 23 ex-Ministry of - Defence homes repurposed for the council's social rent.
Councillor Jane Meagher, the council's Housing, Homelessness and Fair Work convener, said: "Never has our need for affordable housing been greater as we face a cost-of-living crisis and a climate emergency. The decisions made this week demonstrate our council's commitment to urgently creating the homes Edinburgh needs.
"I'm particularly pleased that we'll be able to deliver so many homes for social rent. We want to provide everybody with a safe and warm place to live, but we're facing growing homelessness in Edinburgh. This remains a challenge, but these new properties that we're buying and building are going to help many people in desperate housing need.
"And, as we build these new homes, we'll create well-designed places. Innovative offsite manufacturing of net zero homes, such as those planned for Greendykes, will help tenants and residents to keep their fuel bills down. This work will be taken forward alongside retrofitting many of our existing homes, so that older council properties are also brought up to a better standard."
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