Building continues despite Brandon Homes liquidation
DEVELOPERS who were involved in a project to build much-needed "affordable" housing have gone out of business.
This week the SNP expressed concern for residents who have bought property in Brandon Homes developments in Carfin and New Stevenston which have not been completed.
The company also had plans to build 45 flats in Main Street, Holytown, under the Scottish Government's Affordable Housing Investment Programme.
Houses have been built at the Brandon Homes Woodrow development in Carfin. Some are occupied and building work has continued despite the firm's demise.
A building industry source said: "It's probably business as usual except a few creditors will be out of pocket."
The firm built flats at Princes Road in New Stevenston after buying council ground there for 31,000. However, the "luxury development" of one and two-bedroom apartments is incomplete.
Councillor Paul Delaney, press officer for the SNP group on North Lanarkshire Council, said: "Our immediate concern is for people who have bought houses and are living on a building site uncertain of when the outstanding work will be completed."
A spokesman for the Brandon Homes (Scotland) liquidators said it was a subsidiary of a larger company and had "few" assets. It was likely that any work at its sites was being done by another company in the group.
Full story in March 4 edition of Times & Speaker
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