THE Castlemilk area of Glasgow is in line for a £3.6 million housing boost.

Ardenglen Housing Association is to build 22 new homes on vacant land at the site of the former St Martins Primary School playing fields in Ardencraig Road.

Work is expected to begin in the autumn and take around a year to complete, after £2million grant funding was approved by Glasgow City Council and the Scottish Government.

The development will consist of 15 one, two and three-bedroom flats, four two-bedroom houses and three wheelchair-accessible flats. The homes are being built by McTaggart Construction.

Chief Executive Audrey Simpson said: “Everyone will welcome this exciting new development of homes – it is just what the community needs. Ardenglen Housing Association is deeply committed not just to making our communities great places in which to live but to building new homes which people really want.”

Councillor Kenny McLean, City Convener for Neighbourhoods, Housing and Public Realm at Glasgow City Council, said: “This new development will see yet more homes that suit a wide range of people coming to Glasgow – a welcome trend that we now see regularly in the city.

“ In this case, I am especially pleased to see the site of a former community asset being used to bring these 22 new homes to Castlemilk.”