Search: State must lead on major affordable housing development, argues new paper

Below is a full transcript of episode 75 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Scottish Housing Day celebrates good neighbours with Callum Chomczuk and Jamie Ballentine’. Listen to the episode here.

The work of Rural Stirling Housing Association has been praised by the leader of Stirling Council.

A Dundee sheriff has refused an appeal by a trust against a decision of the Scottish ministers to allow a community body to exercise the right to purchase derelict land in St Andrews owned by the trust, in the first appeal of its kind in Scotland. Forthtay Ltd Employee Trust, which owned a plot of l

Accommodation for service personnel and their families is “shocking”, with two-thirds of Service Family Accommodation (SFA) needing major work to meet modern standards, and families facing uncertainty over allocation, a new report has found. Amid persisting issues with damp and moul

Continuing his dive into the main findings of the RentBetter research project led by Indigo House and funded by the Nationwide Foundation, Professor Douglas Robertson covers the failings found in how the Housing Tribunal engages with tenants and raises concerns about what the research found wit

Following the tragedy at Grenfell Tower on 14 June 2017, the Grenfell Inquiry’s Final Report (also called the Phase 2 Report), was published in September. It paints a bleak picture of years of failures by government and others in the construction industry and calls for far-reaching reform

Below is a full transcript of episode 61 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 2) with Angela Currie’. Listen to the episode here.

Housing has the potential to become as potent a driver of far-right support within European politics as immigration due to unaffordable rents and property prices across the continent, the United Nations' expert on housing has warned.

Maree Todd MSP, minister for social care, mental wellbeing and sport and Joe Fitzpatrick MSP, minister for local government empowerment and planning officially opened the Goathill Project Development at a ceremony in Stornoway on Monday 25 March. The Goathill Development Project consists of the 52-b

In a heartfelt tribute to the late Stirling Provost Tommy Brookes, a new social housing development in Plean has been named Tommy Brookes Way. A total of 19 new homes have been built for social housing following £3.6 million of investment by Stirling Council and the Scottish Government.

Progressive technology to allow residents to influence their environment with assistive controls such as eye-gaze technology, wireless switches and voice command have been installed in a concept apartment built in a theatre. Smart home designer Function Control has provided its expertise to adapt a

Community Land Scotland’s policy manager, Dr Josh Doble, reflects on the main findings of research on the impact of community land ownership in locations which were previously under monopoly ownership. Scotland has an exciting opportunity in the next six months as we await the Land Reform Bill

Visitors from East Ayrshire Council were welcomed by Mr McCluskey to view his new home at Witch Road, Kilmarnock. The council’s housing development at Witch Road in Central North, Kilmarnock includes 43 new homes for older ambulant disabled residents built by the council’s strategic deve

The construction of new accommodation for workers in Mull is among a number of projects designed to stimulate economic activity, boost tourism and improve community assets on Scotland’s islands that will share £4.1 million in the latest round of funding from the Islands Programme. A tota

The number of people seeking on financial advice from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has increased by more than 40% in just one year, the charity has revealed.