What is pressured area status?
The purpose of pressured area status is to protect the amount of affordable rented housing in a Council area to make sure that there are enough houses for people who need them. The Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 gave Scottish Ministers the power to grant any part of a Local Authority area as ‘pressured’. This means that the right to buy (RTB) is suspended in these areas for new tenants for a period of up to 5 years. The Council has been granted pressured area status by the Scottish Executive for a number of villages and neighbourhoods, effective from 10 February 2006.
