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Six new apartments, together with a renovation of an existing building to create an additional apartment, have been completed for Caledonia Housing Association at Crieff Road, Perth.

The City of Edinburgh Council is calling on local authorities to follow its lead and sign up to the newly launched national Civic Charter on climate. Edinburgh is the sole council in Scotland to put its name to the document, which emerged from the painstaking deliberations of the national Clima

Glasgow City Council has outlined its draft Green Deal roadmap for the city, a nine-year mission to transform the city's economy to tackle the climate emergency.

Two new housing developments totalling 118 homes are set to be approved by Renfrewshire Council this week. Merchant Homes Partnership Ltd has submitted proposals to build a development in place of vacant manufacturing buildings and a grass pitch at Reid Linwood in Napier Street, Linwood.

Scottish Housing News is saddened to report the sudden death of former Perthshire Housing Association chief executive John Kernahan, who died last Thursday aged 70. John spent his entire professional life in the housing sector and was deeply committed to improving the housing stock and combatting ho

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published an updated engagement plan for Charing Cross Housing Association following the landlord’s appointment of West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) as its preferred transfer partner. The Regulator is currently engaging with Charing Cross about its

Sixteen City Building construction workers have enrolled as graduate apprentices as part of plans to secure the Glasgow firm’s next generation of senior management. The group – 80% of whom started out as trades apprentices – are undertaking a BA (Hons) Business Management at Glasgo

The story of how a lack of clarity about who owns land within Scotland’s neighbourhoods, towns and cities causes problems for residents, limiting aspirations and affecting physical and mental health, is the subject of a new two-part series on BBC Scotland.

A unique flagship zero carbon home concept has been unveiled which will be the first new home in the country built by a major housebuilder to go beyond the new Future Homes Standard by delivering a carbon reduction of 125%.

A host of in-person and virtual events during COP26 this autumn will showcase the important role that timber construction can play in the fight against climate change.

Everyone knows that planting trees is vital for the effort for capturing carbon emissions and mitigating the impact of the climate emergency, but according to Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS), cutting down trees – when it’s part of sustainable forest management – is even more

Scottish Housing Associations Resources for Education (SHARE) has revealed that its director Mary McLuskey has been headhunted and will depart the organisation. The executive committee had recruited Mary in May this year and have been delighted with the work Mary has done in the short time she has b

Contractor A.C. Whyte & Co. Ltd, which focuses on delivering energy efficiency projects in partnership with local authorities and housing associations, invited cabinet secretary for finance and economy, Kate Forbes, to site last week to hear about its Energy Efficiency Skills Acad

The Scottish Government no longer supports unlimited recovery of hydrocarbons including oil and gas, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has said in the run-up to the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow. The co-operation agreement signed by the Scottish Government and the Scottish Green Party earlier this ye

A site where lock-up garages once stood now provides much-needed high-quality accommodation for affordable rent for Angus Council tenants. Tenants have moved into 13 new highly energy efficient homes in the Muirton area of Arbroath, which were delivered by the council's strategic construction p