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

New tenant Dylan Bogue Fourteen people have moved into a ground-breaking Albyn Housing Society development that unites the priorities of healthcare, housing provision and tenant welfare.

The Help to Buy (Scotland) scheme is to be extended beyond 2019 after the Scottish Government announced a further £100 million investment over two years. The initiative, which helps people purchase a new-build home without the need for a large deposit, has supported more than 12,000 households into

West Dunbartonshire Council has agreed a number of measures to ensure its commitment to delivering 1000 new affordable homes by 2021 is met. At a special meeting of the local authority’s housing & communities committee this week, councillors made a decision to approve the purchase of land at D

Barratt Homes’ Mill Brae development A home is likely to be the biggest purchase a person will ever make. As such, it’s perfectly understandable that buyers will want every assurance their home is the quality investment they’ve worked so long and hard for.

Malcolm Fraser More than 150 of Scotland’s leading architects have launched an unprecedented attack on the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS), accusing it of being financially inept and a “secretive and autocratic” organisation.

Henry McLeish Former First Minister and town planner Rt Hon Henry McLeish on the launch of the Scottish Alliance for People and Places.

Terrie Alafat The vast majority of councils and housing associations in England believe government welfare policy is hitting their efforts to tackle homelessness, according to new research.

Nicola Barclay Scotland’s home building industry is urging the Scottish Government to guard against complacency over housing as new statistics show a marginal increase of just 251 homes (1%) completed in 2016-17 compared to the previous year.

Blackwood has sacked a man from a Dundee care home after he was found to be lying about being struck off the nursing register. The Evening Telegraph reports that Derek Gordon was given a one-year conditions of practice order in June 2016 for a series of faults while working as a nurse at Lochleven C

Planning permission in principle for a new 1,500-home development in the Cairngorms National Park has been extended for a further three years following a Section 42 application to vary a condition of the previously granted consent. Permission was originally granted by the Cairngorms National Park Au

David Melhuish By Scottish Property Federation director David Melhuish

Homelessness prevention could be ‘achievable’ for some of the most high-risk groups - care leavers, prison leavers and survivors of domestic abuse - within the next Parliament, according to an All-Party Parliamentary Group for Ending Homelessness (APPGEH) report. The APPGEH, set up with the supp

The Seaton tower blocks in Aberdeen The Scottish Government has urged all Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) in the country to provide tower block stock information to assist a ministerial review of Scottish regulations in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in West London.

Adam Lang Dear Editor

Jim Barrie The latest in our Just a Minute profiles features Jim Barrie, general manager for timber preservation at City Gate Construction (CGC) based in Paisley.