An ambitious plan to help tackle the availability of suitable Council housing across the Falkirk Council area could be launched later this year.

A meeting of Falkirk Council’s Housing and Social Care committee heard that buying back former 'right-to-buy' properties could help with the high demand larger family homes and smaller one bedroom properties.

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The aim of the project is to buy back 100 properties over the next two years at a cost of between £7m and £10m.

Cllr Gerry Goldie, Convener of Housing and Social Care said: "While the number of properties being bought through ‘right-to-buy is decreasing, we still have a large gap in certain areas of suitable housing.

"This idea will go someway to help increasing availability of suitable housing that is so much in demand by individuals and families.

"There will be guarantees in place such as we will only offer what the market value is, that the property will actually meet housing needs and we would only pay for the property and our legal fees and not those of the existing owners."

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