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If you have any queries about housing, you can write or phone:
- Housing and Property Services, Market Place, Wick, KW1 4AB, telephone 01955 607712, fax 01955 605775
- Housing and Property Services, Rotterdam Street, Thurso, KW14 8AB, telephone 01847 805505, fax 01847 805508
The North Area Housing and Property Manager is Tina Luxton. She is principally based at:
Housing and Property Services, Drummuie, Golspie KW10 6QN, telephone 01408 635386, fax 01408 634041
Your nearest Highland Council Service Points are:
At all Highland Council Service Points you can:
In addition, at Wick and Thurso Service Points you can contact a housing officer.
If you are a council tenant and have an emergency repair to report outside office hours which are 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, you can phone the emergency housing number - 08457 002005.
Finding Housing: because we have many more households on the waiting lists than we are able to accommodate in council housing, we have developed A Guide to Housing Options, which gives information on the various ways of finding housing in Highland.
Homelessness: If you become homeless, please contact a housing officer to obtain advice and information. You can contact the Wick, Thurso or Dornoch Housing and Property offices directly or you can ask at the Service Points above to be put in contact with a housing officer. If you become homeless outside office hours, please phone the emergency housing number - 08457 002005 so that the standby officer can help you access emergency accommodation.
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The Care and Repair scheme offers free and confidential information and advice to older people and people with a disability who are homeowners or private tenants, to enable them to improve, repair or adapt their homes.
The Care and Repair agents for the Landward Caithness ward are:
Pentland Housing Association
37 - 39 Traill Street
THURSO
KW14 8EG
Tel: 01847 892507
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Part of the southern part of the ward is designated as high priority for crofting, whereas the rest of the ward is designated as standard.
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The Handy Person Scheme has been established to assist elderly people and people with disabilities retain their independence by providing people to carry out a wide range of minor household repairs which are too small for a tradesperson and which are of a one-off kind.
It is mainly aimed at owner occupiers, although with the landlord’s permission repairs can be carried out on rented properties.
In the Landward Caithness Ward, you can contact:
Pentland Housing Association
37/39 Traill Street
Thurso
Caithness
KW14 8EG
Tel: 01847 892507
e-mail: pha@pentlandhousing.co.uk
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Look at the Ward Statistics page to obtain information on the total number of households and the number of council houses in the ward.
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The lettings areas in the Landward Caithness ward are:
- Aukengilll
- Barrock
- Bower
- Castletown
- Canisbay
- Clyth
- Dunbeath
- Dunnet
- Durran
- Forss
- Geise
- Glengolly
- Gillock
- Halkirk
- Haster
- Janetstown
- John O'Groats
- Keiss
- Lybster
- Latheron
- Latheronwheel
- Lyth
- Mey
- Murkle
- Reay
- Reiss
- Spittal
- Thrumster
- Ulbster
- Watten
- Westfield
- Weydale
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There is 1 Registered Tenants Group in the Landward Caithness ward.
- South Lybster Residents Group - contact Syd Morrice, 6 South End, Lybster, KW3 6AN
If you are a council tenant and wish to form a group elsewhere in the ward, please contact your nearest Housing and Property Office to find out how to go about this.
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The communities of Forss, Geise, Glengolly, Janetstown, Scrabster and Weydale are covered by "Pressured Area Status". This means that tenants in these communities who started a new tenancy on or after 30 September 2002 have their right to buy suspended. This will last whilst these communities continue to be part of the pressured area. Tenants in the other communiites in the Landward Caithness Ward continue to have the Right to Buy
| More information on the Right to Buy.
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In the Landward Caithness, the Council has sheltered housing schemes in Henrietta Court and Henrietta Street, Halkirk, in Jeffrey Street, Lybster and in Olrig Place, Castletown.
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The Council respects the rights of Gypsy/Travellers to maintain their travelling way of life. There are 4 sites in Highland, owned by the Council, which provide accommodation and related services for Gypsy/Travellers. We recognise that sometimes Gypsy/Travellers camp on other land. We have developed a protocol in line with Scottish Government guidelines that we will follow when responding to unauthorised camping by Gypsy/Travellers.
Housing and Property staff will respond to unauthorised camping on council land in the Landward Caithness Ward.
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