ADAPTING council homes to meet the medical needs of tenants and residents is taking as long as 92.1 days, councillors have heard.

Council officers admit it was "unacceptable" that delays had increased from 38 days in 2015/2016 to carry out work, far beyond the 32-day target in 2016/2017.

According to new figures presented to the housing and communities committee, the target for this year is 43 days, but housing bosses accepted that is too long.

Alan Young, housing asset and investment manager, said some of the delays were caused by getting detailed designs done for the modifications.

He said: "We are looking into that to focus efforts and streamline that and work with planning to turn that around as quickly as possible.

"It's not as though we are doing [fewer improvements] but the time is taking longer.

"The average is down to about 44 days."

Mr Young added that if you strip out the jobs carried over from the last year, the average so far in 2017/2018 is 15 days for work to be done.

Peter Barry, strategic lead for housing and employability, said of the medical adaptations backlog: "No bones about it, the issue was unacceptable. Performance was low and we are on it."

The average time for emergency repairs has increased slightly from 3.8 hours to 3.91 hours, while non-emergency repairs have improved from 10.58 days in 2015/2016 to 7.17 days last year.

Council officers said the dip on emergency repairs was down to a gas contractor, which is now improving.

A new system to manage repairs is being introduced but it will be next August before it is fully up and running.

The committee was told there are currently thousands of files in housing management systems, in some cases three or four per resident. All that has to be transferred into the new system.

Among other figures in the report measuring Scottish Social Housing Charter standards, the percentage of tenants who feel their rent represents good value for money has remained unchanged at 68.22 per cent.

Gross rent arrests as a percentage of rent due improved slightly to 10.15 per cent. The average time to re-let properties has also improved from 51 days to 46.1 days.

Tenant satisfaction with repairs and the quality of their homes have improved slightly. Those satisfied with temporary or emergency accommodation has dropped from 90.21 per cent to 78 per cent.

Fewer anti-social behaviour cases are resolved within target times and the percentage of people satisfied with the anti-social behaviour service decreased slightly.