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Falkirk Council tenants are set to benefit from a wide range of improvements to their homes over the next year, as the local authority agreed its housing budget for next year. The investment, which was agreed as part of a larger three year £81 million budget, will upgrade existing homes and add new

Stirling’s first street clinic offering housing and homelessness advice is setting up home today on Port Street. Experts from charity Shelter Scotland will be on hand from 10am-3pm to offer help and advice on a range of housing issues, including rent and mortgage arrears, fuel poverty, money and d

Scotland’s ‘generation rent’ is expected to continue throughout the next decade as the country is predicted to be one of UK’s fastest growing private rental markets. New analysis from PwC has suggested that private rental tenure in the country is expected to rise by 16 per cent with owner oc

Perth & Kinross Council has agreed a final budget for 2016/17 which signals investment of over £12.5 million to protect vulnerable people, work with communities and build upon the area's reputation as a destination for world class events. Including a tenth consecutive freeze on Council Tax for

The Scottish Housing Regulator has used its statutory powers to appoint a manager to Ferguslie Park Housing Association and to make three statutory appointments to its governing body. The regulator has identified a number of serious weaknesses in Ferguslie Park’s governance and financial managemen

A total of £60 million is to be invested into housing in Aberdeenshire as councillors agreed its budgets for the year ahead. A budget of almost £700m of funding for local services was agreed at a meeting of full council yesterday, including £533m for revenue and £100m for capital programmes.

More than £112 million is to be invested in East Lothian Council’s housing modernisation programme over the next five years as well as an increase of new affordable housing across the county, it was announced this week. The local authority said a 5 per cent rise in council house rents will allow

A woman who owned a property within a block of flats which was demolished ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games has taken Thenue Housing Association to court over the cost of fuel bills. Margaret Jaconelli and her family were the last remaining occupants in the Ardenlea Street tenement flat in Dalmar

Dundee City Council has announced that 200 posts will go as part of plans to save £25 million across the next two years. Confirming the job losses yesterday, finance spokesman Willie Sawers said they would be cut through voluntary redundancies and retirals. He assured staff there would be no compul

West Lothian Council’s key affordable housing programme took its next step as work started on one site and planning permission was granted at another. Last week, the council’s development management committee approved plans to build 190 new houses on the former Halls factory site in Broxburn.

Procurement consortium LHC has begun the tender process for its new Pitched Roofing framework. A contract notice for the programme, worth an estimated £100 million over four years, has now been issued by the local government organisation.

The Scottish Government has passed amendments to its Private Tenancies Bill to strengthen its proposed rent control laws, though campaigners have warned that ministers need to go further to ensure protections for vulnerable tenants are guaranteed under the new legislation. The Private Housing (Tenan

Councils have until the end of today to decide whether to accept a funding deal from the Scottish Government. Finance secretary John Swinney held talks with council representatives last month as he asked them to accept the “challenging but fair” Local Government Finance Settlement.

Wind power alone provided almost half of Scotland’s total electricity needs in January, according to new data. Analysis by WWF Scotland of data provided by WeatherEnergy found that for the month of January wind turbines in Scotland provided 1,125,544MWh of electricity to the National Grid, enough

New powers are to be introduced to enable local authorities to take action against private landlords who do not maintain homes to proper living standards. From April, provisions enacted in the Housing (Scotland) Act will give councils a right of entry to the privately rented homes as well as the abi