Stirling Council is to invest £9 million in 2016 as part of a new house building programme.

The council has pledged to purchase eight new properties from developers at Highland Gate, Kildean. Between 2016/17 and 2017/18, it will also buy 24 new properties in Raploch. The council will also build eight new homes at the old swimming pool site at Riverside, and five at Firs Crescent in Bannockburn.

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Housing Portfolio Holder, Councillor Violet Weir, said: "It's one of this administration's key priorities to build more socially rented housing and these new homes will add to a number already completed as part of our investment programme.

"I'm particularly pleased that these homes in Cowie were able to be built by our own in-house team and that the addition of more bungalows to the housing stock in general enables us to better serve elderly and disabled tenants in particular."

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