Sign our petition to stop evictions in Dreghorn and keep families in their homes. 

In the lead up to Christmas of 2024 and again in March 2025, private tenants of military-owned Dreghorn Estate received a letter from Phil Riley, DIO Director of Accommodation informing them that they would be selling off housing that was ‘surplus’ to their requirements. This put 19 families at risk of losing their homes by October 2025 and other families left in the dark about the DIOs plans for their homes. 

In other words, their homes.

Without the council buying back the homes, the families are concerned that they will be evicted and face homelessness after being assured that these houses would be long term secure accommodation for them and their families.

The impact that this news has had on residents huge. It impacts everything from their livelihoods and economic stability to their mental and physical health and wellbeing.

We are asking that 

• Edinburgh City Council purchase the 19 tenanted houses and allow Dreghorn Residents to stay on as tenants, ensuring they can remain in their community.
• For the remaining private tenants that continue to not know the DIO's plans for their homes that Edinburgh City Council put in plans to prevent this situation from happening again.

As one resident of Dreghorn says -

"These are our homes. Our lives are built here. Our children have grown up in these houses and we have created a community and security within it. Please join in our fight to save our homes and stop these heartless and self-serving evictions."