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If you have any queries about housing, you can write or phone:
Housing and Property Services, 21 - 23 Church Street, Inverness, IV1 1DY, telephone 01463 703800, fax 01463 703917.
The Area Housing and Property Manager for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey is Murray Cochrane. He is principally based at the Inverness Housing and Property Office.
The Service Point in Inverness Ness-side ward is:
At all Highland Council Service Points you can:
In addition, at Hilton Service Point 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:
If you become homeless, please contact a housing officer to obtain advice and information. You can contact the Inverness Housing and Property office direct or you can ask at the Service Point 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 standy 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 Inverness Ness-side ward are:
Care and Repair
Cairn Housing Association
Cairn House
30 Waterloo Place
INVERNESS
IV1 1NB
Tel: 01463 229150
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In the Inverness Ness-sire Ward, a Community Warden covers Hilton.
More information on the Community Warden scheme
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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 main lettings area covered by the Inverness Ness-side Ward is Hilton, although part of the Hilton estate falls into the Inverness Millburn Ward.
This ward also covers part of the Central/Crown lettings area.
To check which ward you are in, you can use the postcode search on the Your Ward page of this website.
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The following housing associations have housing in the Inverness Ness-side Ward:
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There are no registered tenant groups in the Inverness Ness-side Ward. If you are a council tenant and you would like to form a tenants group, please contact the Inverness Housing and Property Office for advice on how to do so.
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The Hilton Area has not been designated as pressured and therefore the Right to Buy has not been suspended. Tenants can apply to buy their houses once they have completed the necessary qualifying period. However, for tenants who started a new tenancy on or after the 30 September 2002, the right to buy has been suspended until November 2010 in any council houses in the ward which do not form part of the Hilton estate.
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The Council respects the rights of Gypsy/Travellers to maintain their travelling way of life. Many Gypsy/Travellers in Highland prefer not to use the Council's camps, but camp on other land. We have developed a protocol in line with Scottish Executive 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 Inverness Ness-side Ward.
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