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

East Lothian Council has published flood maps for Musselburgh. In May 2016, the East Lothian Council Cabinet approved the Local Flood Risk Management Plan (LFRMP) for the Forth Estuary Local Plan District and confirmed a flood protection scheme for Musselburgh. Work has progressed to advance the flo

Offers for the sale of two former Aberdeen school sites are to be accepted after the move was agreed at a council committee. Aberdeen City Council’s city growth and resources committee approved the move to accept the recommended offers received after extensive marketing exercises for the sites

The Highland Council is very close to full compliance with new fire safety legislation which came into force on February 1 2022, the local authority's Housing and Property Committee was told yesterday.

The community-led development of five homes and five self-build plots on Raasay has been granted full planning permission. Raasay Development Trust (RDT) is leading the project in the main village of Inverarish with support from the Communities Housing Trust (CHT).

A disused school and schoolhouse in Glendale, Skye has received a grant of over £47,000 from the Scottish Government’s Rural Communities in Action Fund to undertake further feasibility, design and development work. The community-led project to renovate the school and schoolhouse into 5-6

Glasgow's Buchanan Galleries is set to be demolished to make way for an £825 million mixed-use transformation, under new proposals for the site. Current owner Landsec is planning to create a new 'urban neighbourhood' complete with homes, retail, restaurants, and office space.

Members of the Highland Council’s Housing and Property Committee yesterday approved a below-inflation rise (1%) in council house rents for 2022/23 to help tenants during challenging financial times. It was also agreed that this percentage increase (1%) will be applied to all residential Housin

Sandra Brydon, director of Home Group Scotland, who has devoted more than 40 years to public and charitable service in Scotland, is calling time on her career this spring.

South Lanarkshire contractor Iain Potter Construction Limited (IPC) has ceased trading with all of its 33 staff made redundant.

A developer that secured planning permission in 2018 for around 700 rental homes at the 7.5-acre derelict site between Collegelands and Bell Street, beside Parsonage Square, in Glasgow has now applied for permission for an updated masterplan for the land. Build-to-rent operator Get Living now w

The developer behind plans for a new office development in Glasgow's Broomielaw office district is in talks with Glasgow City Mission to relocate the homelessness charity.

Long-running plans to build homes, a golf and tennis centre and a Sir Andy Murray museum on greenbelt land at Park of Keir have been approved by the Scottish Government.

A development of four houses on vacant land in Dennistoun has been granted planning permission. Balmoral Developments and DTA Architects had submitted an application proposing the development of two semi-detached two and a half storey dwelling houses on a site formerly known

Public bodies will have a legal duty to ‘ask and act’ to prevent homelessness under Scottish Government proposals.

Plans for a new 90-home development, which includes a care home, nursery and shop have been announced for the Isle of Mull.