Glasgow City Council has approved the compulsory purchase of three empty homes in Cardonald and Dennistoun.

The properties, all tenement flats, will be transferred to local housing associations to be used as social housing for homeless people or families. The move was given the green light by the council's Contracts & Property Committee on Thursday, 18 September.

The flats are at 1610 Paisley Road West in Cardonald and 45 Aberfoyle Street in Dennistoun. The Cardonald flat, empty since September 2023, will be used for emergency homelessness accommodation by Southside Housing Association. The two Dennistoun properties have been unoccupied since November 2012 and March 2017, and were badly damaged in a fire in March 2016. Milnbank Housing Association will undertake the necessary repairs on these homes once the CPOs are approved by Scottish Ministers.

-- Advertisement --

The compulsory purchases are the latest move in a programme that the council says has brought thousands of empty homes back to productive use. Councillor Ruairi Kelly, Convener for Housing and Development, said the CPOs would allow housing associations to provide "much-needed accommodation to homeless people or families" in the face of a housing emergency.