Shortages of materials and construction workers linked to the pandemic and Brexit will continue to have a serious impact on East Ayrshire Council's future housing plans.While the council announced significant investment of £182.7 million in its housing stock this week, the good news was tempered by the note of caution from housing asset manager Gary Craig.He told the council's cabinet that the impact was 'on a scale which we could never really have imagined' with a significant backlog just one of the results.Mr Craig said: "Investment programmes were stopped and some of them have not yet been restarted."Maintenance works were put on hold, tenants were asked not to report non-essential works."There have been significant operational changes