Aberfeldy community is attempting to address its affordable rural housing crisis by setting up a development trust.
As a result of a bid by private developers eyeing up Aberfeldy Cottage Hospital for conversion to holiday accommodation, a community meeting held on Monday, May 9 at the Locus Centre, Aberfeldy ended with the unanimous decision to set up Aberfeldy Development Trust.
The culmination of a recent community-wide discussion on affordable rural housing in the immediate area, the meeting sought to gain support for the formation of a Development Trust and their initial proposal to invite the Communities Housing Trust to carry out a housing survey for community areas in Aberfeldy, Weem, Strathtay, Grandtully, Logierait and Ballinluig.
