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A new resource to support property factors to retrofit tenement buildings in Scotland has been launched.

The Scottish housing market outlook remains challenging amid a September fall in market activity, according to the latest RICS UK Residential Market Survey. A concern highlighted by respondents is on the impact of new Scottish Government initiatives will have on the supply of rental properties, pote

The UK Government has confirmed that it will repeal the 1824 law that criminalises rough sleeping and begging in England and Wales.

Scottish Borders Council is to bring care services in the region back into its control less than five years after being taken over by an arms-length agency.

Professor Suzanne Fitzpatrick The majority of local councils in England are struggling to find any stable housing for homeless people in their area, leaving them forced to place more and more people in unstable temporary accommodation, a new state-of-the-nation report from Crisis and the Joseph Rown

Pictured with the Education Award (from left) Stephen Flynn, vice chair – Glasgow Taxis; Evelyn McDowall, digital lead – Wheatley Group; Clark Whyte, board member – Glasgow Kelvin College; Alan Inglis, vice principal – Glasgow Kelvin College and event host Catriona Shearer. Photograph courte

James Battye There is fear that the UK government’s latest round of immigration reforms could increase discrimination against some people wanting to rent privately and ride roughshod over Scottish housing law.

Scotland’s highest civil court has found that lock-change evictions of asylum seekers without court orders are lawful in a judgment whose implications are "deeply concerning".

(from left) Jamie Hepburn, Brian Pattinson - convenor of Loreburn Housing Association management committee, Carol Turnbull – principal at Dumfries & Galloway College and Lorraine Usher, CEO at Loreburn Housing Association Loreburn Housing Association has welcomed Jamie Hepburn, minister for bu

Image of the Grenfell Tower fire courtesy of Natalie Oxford via Twitter A review into UK building regulations in the wake of last year’s Grenfell Tower fire has highlighted the benefit of the pre-emptive system in Scotland, though ministers have vowed to ensure its recommendations are considered n

The UK government has confirmed it will progress work on the next generation of new towns across England, following the publication of an independent report that recommends 12 locations as potential new towns.

Communities and businesses across Scotland will be given support and tools to help tackle the unavoidable impacts of climate change as part of the Scottish Government’s new National Adaptation Plan. The Scottish National Adaptation Plan 2024-2029 (SNAP3) sets out a comprehensive suite of more

A tenant of a local authority housing site in Motherwell has successfully sought a review of the decision not to allow her to amend her pleadings in an action for damages against her landlords.

A judge in the Outer House of the Court of Session has dismissed an action by the defender in a settled action seeking right of relief from a third party to the case following the grant of absolvitor in their favour.

The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has urged ministers to seize the opportunity to turn the COVID-19 crisis into a defining moment in the fight against climate change and has put domestic retrofit at the front of its agenda.