Council Housing

Council housing in West Lothian consists of a mixture of houses, flats, and sheltered housing.

Your local housing team provides a full housing service to customers in your area. This service includes:

• Repairs - inspecting and ordering
• Rent collection
• Letting empty homes
• Mutual exchanges
• Estate management - including looking after the areas around council owned homes
• Dealing with anti-social behaviour and neighbour complaints
• Dealing with non-payment of rent
• Tenancy matters - making sure that tenants stick to the terms of their tenancy agreement

See our service information leaflets in the Downloadable Documents section below.

Our contact details are available from the Contact Us panel at the right of this web page.

The Services panel at the left of this web page directs you to further information.

 

Housing Strategy and Development

The Council's Housing Strategy and Development Section is responsible for a number of key aspects of service delivery to the community within West Lothian.

The section is involved in the following matters:

• Social housing new build programme
• Housing capital improvement programme
• Fuel poverty initiatives
• Housing improvements and repair grant schemes
• Council house sales
• Funding adaptations to private sector houses where people had a specific need
• Occupational therapy assessments
• Provision of aids to daily living through the Community Equipment Store based at St.John's Hospital
• Provision of Housing With Care and sheltered housing
• Provision of 'Smart Technology' to enable physically frail and disabled people to continue to live in their own homes

Key contact officers within Housing Strategy & Development:

General strategy and management issues - John Reid (01506 773747)

Capital development and new build housing - Jim McEwan (01506 773746)

Occupational therapy and home safety - Anne Sherriff (01506 775623)

Housing with Care - Marion Reid (01506 775534)

Council house sales - Bill Lang (01506 773731)

 

Council House Sales

During the year from 1 April 2007 to 31 March 2008, the Council received 368 applications from tenants to purchase their council houses. Of this aforementioned figure, 256 sales were completed, with the reason for the difference between the figures due to some sales received during the last quarter of the year still being processed and other tenants deciding not to proceed to complete the purchase for various reasons including personal, financial circumstances etc.
 
The Scottish Government sets a performance target of 182 days for Councils to complete typical house sales transactions from receipt of a completed application form. West Lothian Council processed 236 of all its completed applications within that timeframe, representing a 92.2% overall performance figure.