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The 1980s saw the growth of speculative house building by developers. These introduced English brick and [[half-timbered]] vernacular styles to Scotland, which had been largely unknown before this period. Many were small and built to minimum standards with little regard to energy or environmental issues. Sales of council houses were popular in Scotland and until the mid-1990s as, unlike in England, local authorities could use the whole of their capital receipts for development.<ref>I. Colquhoun, ''The Riba Book of British Housing Design: 1900 to the Present Day'' (London: Routledge, 2nd edn., 2008), {{ISBN|0-7506-8254-X}}, p. 319.</ref> Under the Scottish Assembly, Scottish Homes was abolished and replaced by [[Communities Scotland]] in 2001, which had a responsibility to provide affordable housing and environmental improvement.<ref name=Colquhoun2008p321>I. Colquhoun, ''The Riba Book of British Housing Design: 1900 to the Present Day'' (London: Routledge, 2nd edn., 2008), {{ISBN|0-7506-8254-X}}, p. 321.</ref> In 2011 it was in turn replaced by the [[Scottish Housing Regulator]], whose remit includes Scottish local authority landlords.<ref name=Robson2011p150>P. Robson, "Housing" in E. Sutherland and K. E. Goodall, eds, ''Law Making and the Scottish Parliament: The Early Years Volume 9 of Edinburgh Studies in Law Series'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2011), {{ISBN|0-7486-4019-3}}, p. 150.</ref>
As the production of state sponsored housing subsided in the 1970s, there was a return to conservatism in church design, which may have reflected a loss of confidence in the churches as attendances rapidly declined.<ref name=Hume2012/> M. Glendinning, R. MacInnes and A. MacKechnie have identified a "post-[[Gillespie, Kidd & Coia|Coia]]" style emerging in this period.<ref name=Glendinningetal1996p487>M. Glendinning, R. MacInnes and A. MacKechnie, ''A History of Scottish Architecture: From the Renaissance to the Present Day'' (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1996), {{ISBN|0-7486-0849-4}}, p. 487.</ref> The limited number of new buildings, some replacing existing churches, tended to be produced by building companies using laminated timber beams, exposed brickwork and pyramidal roofs to produce utilitarian, if aesthetically unadventurous, constructions.<ref name=Hume2012/> From the late 1980s there were some original designs, including St Mary the Virgin, in [[Port Glasgow]] (1984) by Frank Burnet, Bell and Partners; St Anthony's Catholic church in [[Kirriemuir]] (1987), by James F. Stephen Architects; and the replacement church at St Joseph's Catholic Church, [[Faifley]] (1997) by Jacobsen and French.<ref name=Hume2012/> There was also the postmodern design of St John Ogilvie Catholic Church, [[Irvine, North Ayrshire|Irvine]] (1982) by Douglas Malcolm Goodwin Niven [http://www.scottisharchitects.org.uk/building_full.php?id=401854] ,<ref name="Glendinningetal1996p487" /> and the nearby [[Girdle Toll]] parish church (1992), which was converted from a farmhouse.<ref name=Hume2012/>
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