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Below is a full transcript of episode 57 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled 'Housing Bill part 4: An interview with housing minister Paul McLennan'. Listen to the episode here.

Empty offices above the former Monkey House pub in Aberdeen could be converted into 10 flats in a renewed bid to increase accommodation in the city centre.

Julie Moulsdale from Perceptive Communicators shares how the homebuilding industry can use proactive community engagement to unlock the planning system. We are in the grip of a nationwide housing crisis, yet recent figures reveal that the timescale for average planning application is four times long

A developer has launched a public consultation into plans to replace redundant Glasgow city centre offices with student flats.

Wellhouse Housing Association (WHA) has kick-started its search for a new director to replace the departing Martin Wilkie-McFarlane. As reported by SHN last year, Mr Wilkie-McFarlane had decided to stand down after seven years of service.

The full impact of the Cladding Remediation Bill, which was recently passed in the Scottish Parliament, is still to be felt within the construction sector, write Shona Frame and Ryan McCuaig. The 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives, put a sharp focus on the safety of cladding systems

A housing emergency has been declared by South Lanarkshire Council.

Plans to invest in Pitlochry High School to create a new community campus and create more affordable housing in the town have been given the green light by councillors in Perth and Kinross. The proposals, made following the Pitlochry Locality Asset Review, will see £8.7m invested in the school

A new report released from Independent Age, the national charity supporting older people in financial hardship, projects a dramatic surge in poverty in later life by 2040 if current trends and policies stay the same.

Surveyors in Scotland anticipate that house prices will increase through the coming months according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey as both demand and supply remain steady.

The Construction Industry Collective Voice (CICV) has raised "serious concerns" over the Scottish Government's decision to discontinue funding for solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery storage under the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan scheme. Energy Saving Trust Scotland last week pulled both

The Sheriff Appeal Court has reduced the amount payable by a joiner who failed to meet quality of work standards in an attic conversion job by £12,000 after he challenged the sheriff’s decision to award decree in favour of the pursuers.

Revised plans to demolish a property in Glencoe, made notorious as the home of disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile, to make way for a new residence look set to be given the green light. Allt-Na-Reigh near Ballachullish has been subjected to continued vandalism despite also being the pre

A financial model implemented by Lar Housing Trust is a proven blueprint to help tackle Scotland's current housing crisis, the charity has said. Launched in autumn 2015, Lar uses loan-based finance rather than traditional grant funding to provide affordable housing developments. The Scotland-wide or

Some of the most impressive building projects in Scotland from the last year were recognised at the RICS Awards 2024 last night. Taking home the prize for best Residential Development was Rowanbank Gardens in Corstorphine, Edinburgh.