Scottish Conservatives

A blueprint to tackle domestic abuse has been published by the Scottish Conservatives after new statistics revealed that "victims are being left in limbo” when they leave a violent household. The party has launched a new policy paper alongside freedom of information responses showing that

At least 40,000 disabled people in Scotland are currently waiting on a housing association or council home, according to new figures.

Scotland’s tourism industry faces destruction unless ministers listen to businesses and pause the introduction of a “catastrophic” new short-term lets (STL) licensing system, the First Minister has been warned.

The average waiting time to be placed in social homes exceeds a year in the majority of Scottish local authorities, according to new statistics.

Local authorities were overruled on more than half of all planning appeals in the last year, the Scottish Conservatives have revealed.

More than 100,000 children in Scotland are on waiting lists for social housing, new figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives have shown.

Only one in five applications for short-term let properties have been approved following the introduction of the licensing scheme, according to data obtained by the Scottish Conservatives.

The number of people with disabilities on social housing waiting lists in Scotland has increased by around 150% over the last five years to reach more than 24,000, according to new statistics. Figures obtained by the Scottish Conservatives show that there are currently at least 24,209 disabled

The Scottish Government has spent almost £18 million overturning hundreds of planning decisions by local authorities since 2017, according to new figures.

Housing associations have joined letting agents and bodies in expressing fears that the Scottish Government’s rent freeze proposals, which are being introduced to the Scottish Parliament today, will “jeopardise” affordable housebuilding and result in a reduction in the nu

Conservative MSP Miles Briggs is to bring forward new legislation that will ensure no planning decisions made locally would be overturned after highlighting new figures local authorities were overruled on almost half of all planning appeals in the last year. The Planning and Environmental

Almost 100,000 children are currently on waiting lists for a local authority home in Scotland – around 36% more than estimated in 2020, according to information obtained by the Scottish Conservatives.

The leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Douglas Ross, has outlined plans to increase the home building target to 25,000 properties per year and said councils should be able to vary Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) thresholds to take into account higher local prices. The Scottish Cons

The Scottish Government has overruled local councils on 46% of all planning decision appeals since the 2017 local elections, according to new figures

An estimated 256 people died while experiencing homelessness in Scotland in 2020, according to new figures published by National Records of Scotland, with more than half of the deaths being drug-related.