West Lothian Council delivers

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

 

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

 

Applying for a Council House - West Lothian Housing Register

There are three partners of the West Lothian Housing Register who are Almond Housing Association, Weslo Housing Management and West Lothian Council. You only submit the one application for the three partners of the Register. You select which of the partners you wish to be considered by. There is no limit on how many you select.

Non - Housing Repairs 

Housing and Building Services non-housing works consists of a large variety of projects.

 

Our service information leaflets are avaliable in the Downloadable Documents section.