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

West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) is continuing its efforts to explore innovative and effective solutions for heating tenants’ homes with promising first trials of innovative ‘infrared’ wallpaper. In the early months of 2024, WSHA became the first housing associ

The Association for Rental Living (ARL – formerly UKAA) has appointed Iain Murray as its new chair of the ARL Scotland Hub. Mr Murray, head of operational living at Bidwells, will succeed Gillian McLees on 10 May 2024, following the living asset specialist’s two-year tenure as chair of t

South Lanarkshire Council has granted permission to homelessness charity Social Bite for the next of its proposed village projects in Rutherglen. To be situated on a brownfield site on Harriet Street, the village will consist of 15 modern, sustainable modular homes, known as Nest houses, a

The Scottish Homebuilding & Renovating Show, sponsored by timber-frame specialists Fleming Homes, returns to the SEC on May 11-12 2024.

English housing association Origin Housing has now joined the Places for People Group (PfP) Limited, unlocking an additional £100 million of investment into customers’ homes.

More than £9 million is being made available over the next three years to give people who access social care in Scotland more choice and control over decisions relating to their care. This funding builds on an additional £2 billion investment in social care and integration, as part of th

The empty Northern Hotel in Aberdeen could be given a new lease of life as student accommodation under new plans submitted to the local authority. The Art Deco landmark at the junction of Great Northern Road and Clifton Road dates back decades but closed its doors back in 2022 amid "crippling e

Scottish Opera has fleshed out its proposals for a major mixed-use transformation of its current New Rotterdam Wharf site in Glasgow, including multi-storey student accommodation blocks.

Fears that stricter regulations will reduce the supply of rental properties are overblown, according to new research from the Social Market Foundation (SMF) think tank.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published an engagement plan for every social landlord and a summary of the outcomes of its annual regulatory risk assessment.

Budgets for health and social care have been approved in East Renfrewshire, Dundee and Inverclyde.

Disused commercial buildings in Glasgow city centre are to be demolished to make way for student accommodation after councillors granted planning permission to Caledon Properties.

The first project to proceed under a new fast track process has received a provisional £2 billion funding package to deliver a subsea energy superhighway which could connect up to two million homes to clean energy. The proposed Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) high voltage subsea cable would be abl

Transformation plans to guide the regeneration of Glasgow city centre to 2030 have been approved by Glasgow City Council. Major office, residential, hospitality and public realm developments - including Candleriggs Square, the Barclays campus in Tradeston, the Love Loan development at George Street,

Fife Council has terminated contracts with a major housebuilder to build 203 affordable homes after work across four sites failed to resume since December. First Endeavour LLP had been operating construction work on the sites in Lochore, Lumphinnans, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy before work halted