An ambitious plan to build hundreds of affordable homes across Inverclyde in the coming years will go before councillors for consideration this week.
Inverclyde Council will ask elected members to approve its strategic housing investment programme for 2027 to 2032 at a meeting on Thursday.
The paper – which targets the delivery of 859 units over the five-year period – comes after a housing summit was held in April last year.
It is set to be discussed by the environment and regeneration committee and, if given the green light, submitted to the Scottish Government.
The document states: “Despite affordable housing pressures demonstrated by partners within the Inverclyde common housing register, Inverclyde Council has been unable to fully deploy Scottish Government affordable housing supply programme funding.
“This has resulted in Inverclyde underclaiming up to £20 million of potential grant funding for affordable housing over the last five years – and this situation was a key driver for the housing summit in April 2025, which aimed to reverse this position in future programming.
“While the Inverclyde housing market has wider challenges, the investment programme for affordable housing has significantly improved following the summit.
“The strategic housing investment plan (SHIP) in 24/25 had an overall planned delivery of 457 units, which almost doubled to 922 in last year’s iteration.
“The current SHIP proposes to deliver 859 units over a five-year period.”
The programme covers a range of projects with different partners across Greenock, Port Glasgow, Kilmacolm and Inverkip.
The paper adds: “While the progress on developing a more robust programme is positive, the programme remains a snapshot in time, and as sites move closer to development, this can impact on timescales and number of units anticipated.
“It is also worth noting that the summit’s target to re-establish a healthy housing market in Inverclyde also targeted delivery of private market housing, and there has been evidence (including in some of the SHIP proposals) that there is a growing private sector appetite for investment in Inverclyde.
“This is a positive sign for the wider housing market, in terms of provision of choice and variety of housing stock to meet all needs, but it is also indicating that movement on private sites is potentially an opportunity to deliver further affordable units.”
