Sanctuary Scotland ’s Ardler regeneration scheme has won a prestigious national award.

Ardler Village in Dundee is one of only eight schemes to be recognised by the British Urban Regeneration Association (BURA) for best practice in the field. The announcement comes just months after the project won a Scottish Quality in Planning Award.

BURA judged that ‘Ardler Village is setting a standard for area-based regeneration in Dundee and beyond’ and Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association have ‘a genuine commitment to empowering local residents to enable them to play their part in the process of change’.

Sanctuary Scotland began a seven-year redevelopment project in 2001 to modernise the Ardler estate in partnership with Dundee City Council and Communities Scotland. The majority of the former council properties were demolished and replaced with high quality low rise homes and retail and community facilities. Between 1980 and 1997, the area’s population fell by almost 50 per cent but now Ardler is a thriving community, where residents are central to the decision making process.