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The large number of planning application decisions overturned by the Scottish Government is "making a mockery of local democracy", according to a former councillor. Figures published by the Press & Journal, revealed that 80% of applications turned down by councillors in Orkney hav

A housing association that refused to consent to the assignation of a social rented sector tenancy has failed in its appeal against the grant of decree ordering it to allow the tenant to assign the tenancy. 

Urban Union has won two awards at this year's Scottish Home Awards for the high quality of its affordable housing and its contribution to local communities. 

Charities have teamed up to offer a new service aimed at an estimated 103,000 older people in Scotland at risk of malnutrition. Age Scotland will be offering free nutrition checks to older people through its Helpline, as part of a partnership with Eat Well Age Well.

The need to include social justice and green infrastructure in our housing developments has only been increased by the onset of the current health pandemic, says housing minister Kevin Stewart. The impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis has made many of us reflect on the importance and value of

The Wheatley Foundation, part of Wheatley Group, has given bursaries to 80 people in its communities across Scotland to support their dreams of studying at college and university.

The regeneration of canals and rivers in cities around the world can lead to a decrease in mortality rates in surrounding locations and reducing the gap between deprived and affluent communities, according to new research. In a global first, the study led by Glasgow Caledonian University in partners

The links between houses, homes and the natural and physical world are far-reaching. In this blog, Professor David Clapham explains that the COVID-19 crisis has underlined our limited understanding of these links.

Two tenants of properties in a housing development in Motherwell have failed to establish that a civil engineering firm breached a duty of care owed to them in respect of injuries they sustained whilst living on the site.

A ballot giving Bellsmyre Housing Association tenants the option to transfer to Caledonia Housing Association (CHA) is now open. If a clear majority vote in favour of the move, it will enable Caledonia Housing Association (CHA) to action its £30 million regeneration pl

The Paisley Centre shopping facility could be repurposed into a new residential quarter under radical new plans to reimagine the town and reverse Scotland’s declining High Streets. How the Paisley Centre entrance could look if the centre was repurposed as a new residential quarter

A transformational development of 824 new homes in Sighthill officially got under way yesterday.

James Cartwright explores what the What Works Community pilot teams at East Ayrshire Council, Southend Borough Council and Pembrokeshire County Council learned about the value of data practices at the project's first residential.

Dunbritton Housing Association has won the Rural and Islands Housing Association Forum (RIHAF) Development of the Year Award for 2019. This award was made in recognition of Dunbritton’s most recent rural development of 26 social housing properties at Bruce Court, Succoth in the village of

A housing association which sued contractors, engineers and architects over “serious defects” in the redevelopment of a former hospital has been granted a full hearing in its £3 million damages action.