Council Leader supports end of Right to Buy

The Highland Council Leader Councillor Drew Hendry has warmly welcomed the announcement by the Scottish Government that they are ending the right of Council house tenants to buy their Council homes.

He said: “The Highland Council supported this proposal at the consultative stage, as we have welcomed previous changes that have restricted the Right to Buy. This is a policy that clearly has had its day and has no place in a modern Scotland. In Highland alone we have lost over 7,000 council houses through Right to Buy since 1996, while over the same period only 3,800 new social rented homes have been built. Over that period we have seen an enormous increase in housing pressure and need for council housing. The end of Right to Buy will allow us to concentrate on the important task of further increasing new council housing through our ambitious development programme.”