Debbie and her children Shaun (10) and Chloe (8) moved in after being homeless for a year.

Originally from Douglas, she said they had been forced to live with her Mum until she was offered her new home.

“We are really happy with it and Shaun and Chloe love having their own bedrooms,” she said.

As the last house to be completed, their home now bears a plaque, which was unveiled by Lord Provost John Letford today.

A little up the street live Jacqueline Penman and her 16-year-old son, George. Though brought up in Happyhillock Road, Jacqueline lived in London for 28 years and is delighted by the changes in the area. “It is very different,” she said.

Three doors down, Caroline and Andrew Duff were happy to show visitors around their new four-bedroomed home.

With four children — Paul (16), Jack (8), Rachel (6) and Andrew (11 months) — living in their previous home, a three-bedroom flat in Whitfield, hadn’t been easy, Caroline explained. “It is fabulous here,” she said. “It’s great.”

However, she agreed, she would have had second thoughts about moving to Mid Craigie before the regeneration.

“If you’d been offered it, you would have thought, not really, but it is so different now.”

Chairman Hazel Farquhar called on the Scottish Government to support the work of smaller, local organisations like Angus Housing Association which, she said, are under threat.

“Current Government thinking seems to be based on the assumption that large-scale developers and competition for subsidy will produce efficiencies that smaller, more locally responsive developers, equally focused on quality and design cannot achieve,” she said.

“I think these developments in Mid Craigie demonstrate efficiency is not necessarily linked to size.”

She said a number of incidents in the area have continued to prejudice the name of the estate and pledged every effort would be made to keep Mid Craigie a safe and secure place for families to bring up their children.