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Businesses and community groups located across Scotland’s inhabited islands are now able to apply for grants of up to £150,000 through the new Island Communities Fund (ICF) for projects focussed on supporting sustainable island economies and the journey towards net zero. The fund is back

The Scottish Government’s Private Rented Sector Resilience Group should include a role for tenant’s unions, the Scottish Greens have said. The party’s co-leader Patrick Harvie raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament after he said the insecurity of the private rented sector

Plans to build 185 new homes in a West Lothian village have been granted conditional approval. The new homes will be developed at a site on Barbuchlaw Burn and land south of Craiginn Terrace in Blackridge, south of Craiginn Terrace.

Clackmannanshire Council has been ranked as the best performing local authority in Scotland when it comes to rent loss due to empty properties, as well as a number of other indicators. Having improved its performance across a range of measures in the 2019/20 financial year, Clackmanna

Planning permission has been granted for a 99-home site at a former primary school which is part of a major project delivering 2,000 new-build council houses across Aberdeen.

Clarion Housing Group has apologised to its tenants after an ITV investigation revealed squalid conditions inside hundreds of properties on a housing estate in south London.  Families living on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham have been left to live with severe damp, leaks, rodents and oth

Allanwater Homes has revealed plans to build a 275-home development on the outskirts of Alva. The three, four, and five-bedroom homes – including roads, footpaths, landscaping, drainage and associated works on a greenfield site, are proposed for land on either side of the A91 to the west

Dundee City Council has approved plans by Caledonia Housing Association for 40 highly energy efficient homes on the site of a former primary school in the city’s Rosebank Street.

The Scottish Government has asked for views on the Scottish Social Housing Charter. Following the consultation, the government plans to develop an updated version of the Charter and ask the Scottish Parliament to consider the changes and approve a revised Charter from April 2022. 

Cater Group's planning application for the former Maryfield House in Aberdeen has now been validated, revealing residential plans for the former care home.

A public consultation has opened into proposals for a mixed-use development containing 55 residential flats and ten commercial units on a small plot at Granton Harbour.

Taylor Wimpey has lodged a Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) with Angus Council to add 50 more homes to its Victoria Grange development in Monifieth. The housebuilder said developing a slice of land between the existing site and the A92 is a “logical” extension to the 3

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has just completed its first Passivhaus development in Garelochhead. The completed new build at Linn Way, Garelochhead.

Scottish Labour has called for a new fund to support people on buying their first home, after new figures exposed growing challenges in the housing market. The Scottish Government’s housing statistics quarterly update, published last week, highlighted the impact the pandemic has had on house b

A six-month extension of emergency measures granted under the Scottish Coronavirus Acts will be debated in Parliament this week.