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Fife Council has granted a not-for-profit company planning permission to turn a former hotel in Leslie into homeless accommodation. New Hope Community House Ltd had applied to transform the 15-bedroom Greenside Hotel into a new type of residential care facility that will provide treatment and c

Glasgow City Council has approved funding of up to £240,000 for the Glasgow City Heritage Trust (GCHT) to support its work in repairing and restoring historic buildings, bringing such buildings back into use, and repairing buildings at risk. The GCHT was established in 2007, and since the

A new policy has been introduced to strengthen West Dunbartonshire Council’s approach to preventing and addressing domestic abuse in a housing and homelessness setting. The policy, which was updated to reflect new national legislation, incorporates the existing No Home For Domestic Abuse appro

The leader of Glasgow City Council, Susan Aitken, has visited the site of Holland Park, Moda Living’s state of the art build to rent neighbourhood in the city’s cultural district which is currently being built. Holland Park will deliver 433 new high-quality homes for a community of aroun

The Glasgow community of Maryhill is set to get its own flag this October, for the first time in the area’s 200-year history. It follows a unique, year-long competition involving hundreds of individuals, local schools and community groups who were all given the chance to submit a proposed desi

Tens of thousands of rural and island homes and businesses in Scotland are set to access the UK’s fastest and most reliable broadband. An investment of £384 million by the Scottish Government through the Reaching 100% programme (R100) will see building of full fibre connec

The City of Edinburgh Council has launched a consultation seeking views on a proposal for Edinburgh to be short term let (STL) control area.

The site of a former police station in Glenrothes has been earmarked for a new development comprising 20 homes and a mixed-use commercial building comprising of a nursery, offices and a cafe.

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF), in partnership with the Scottish Government, has appointed a multi-disciplinary research team to deliver a new project exploring what people living on a low income want to see from further reform to the private rented sector in Scotland.

The Upper Tribunal for Scotland has refused permission for an appeal by two tenants of a tenement apartment seeking to add other proprietors of flats in the same building to their repairing standard application as additional respondents, after it was asked to reconsider its initial decision on the c

On 9 July 2021, the Scottish Government published a report on The Value, Incidence and Impact of Developer Contributions in Scotland. The report is an independent piece of research on Section 75 planning obligations – the equivalent of Section 106 in England – and other developer contrib

Hairdressers, shelf stackers and carers will be among those working families facing the biggest overall drop in their benefits income since 2010 when the cut to Universal Credit goes ahead next month, according to new research by UK children’s charity Action for Children.

With next week's Scottish Housing Day set to explore the challenges for the social housing sector to meet net zero carbon emissions, ALACHO policy manager Tony Cain argues that evidence-based solutions are more important than quick ones. The classical version is Festina Lente, ma

Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association has rebranded as Places for People Scotland in a move it said reflects that the organisation has homes and delivers services across Scotland and also its place within the Places for People family.

Eildon held its 48th Annual General Meeting on September 1 at the end of a tumultuous year. Cathie Fancy, who stood down as vice chair, with chair Dave Alexander