Current status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 25 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many units of affordable housing have been constructed in the (a) Stirling, (b) Fife, (c) Perth and Kinross and (d) Clackmannanshire local authority areas in each year since 2015, and how many were delivered compared with local delivery plans.
Statistics relating to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) by local authority are published quarterly on the Scottish Government website. These figures relate to the number of approvals, site starts, and completions of social and affordable homes, and can be accessed using the following link: https://www.gov.scot/publications/affordable-housing-supply-programme-quarterly-updates-on-approvals-site-starts-and-completions/
The homes provided through the AHSP comprise homes for social rent, for mid-market rent and for low cost home ownership. These homes take various forms including; new build homes, rehabilitation projects, conversions and off-the-shelf purchases of both new and second hand homes.
The following table provides a breakdown of the number of homes completed in the (a) Stirling, (b) Fife, (c) Perth and Kinross and (d) Clackmannanshire local authority areas in each year between 2015-2016 and 2024-25:
Local Authority | Clacks | Fife | Perth and Kinross | Stirling |
2015-2016 | 50 | 386 | 318 | 164 |
2016-2017 | 72 | 611 | 251 | 118 |
2017-2018 | 117 | 960 | 446 | 68 |
2018-2019 | 63 | 547 | 465 | 98 |
2019-2020 | 90 | 500 | 486 | 73 |
2020-2021 | 78 | 495 | 235 | 231 |
2021-2022 | 118 | 405 | 408 | 171 |
2022-2023 | 98 | 721 | 294 | 103 |
2023-2024 | 60 | 524 | 260 | 77 |
2024-2025 | 28 | 414 | 262 | 119 |
TOTAL | 774 | 5563 | 3425 | 1222 |
Local authorities, as the strategic housing and, in most cases, planning authority are responsible for assessing housing need and demand in their area and setting out their investment priorities in their annual Strategic Housing Investment Plans (SHIPs).