Housing Information

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Advice and Information on Housing

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 Church Street office.

The nearest Service Point is

At all Highland Council Service Points you can:

In addition, at Inverness 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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Care and Repair

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 Millburn ward are:

Care and Repair
Cairn Housing Association
Cairn House
30 Waterloo Place
INVERNESS
IV1 1NB

Tel: 01463 229150

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Housing Stock

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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Lettings Areas

The main letting area in the Inverness Millburn Ward is Raigmore.  The Ward also contains part of the Hilton Lettings Area.

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Other Registered Social Landlords

The following housing associations have general needs housing in the Inverness Millburn Ward:

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Registered Tenant Groups

There are no registered tenant groups in the Inverness Millburn Ward. If you are council tenant and would like to form a group, please contact your nearest Housing and Property Office for advice on how to do this.

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Right to Buy

Most of the Inverness Millburn Ward is designated as “pressured”, so this means that for tenants who started a new tenancy on or after 30 September 2002, the right to buy is suspended until November 2010.   Those streets in the ward which form part of the Hilton lettings area are not designated as pressured and council tenants can apply to buy their houses if they have been tenants for the necessry qualifying period. 

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Special Needs Housing 

In the Inverness Millburn Ward, the Council has sheltered housing at Macewen Drive and Lochiel Road.

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Unauthorised Camping by Gypsy/Travellers

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 set up camps on other pieces of 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 Millburn Ward.

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