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The Northern Ireland Executive has launched a new £33 million fund for the remediation or mitigation of the life safety fire risks linked to external wall systems in residential buildings.

Fife Council has approved plans for 39 new affordable houses in Glenrothes and Gauldry.

Fuel poverty rates have doubled among pensioners in Scotland over the last two years according to new research from Age Scotland. The charity’s largest national housing survey of older people identified that 39% of over 65s are living in fuel poverty in 2023, compared to the last available set

The demolition of Irvine’s high flats is nearing its conclusion with preparations well advanced to bring down the last remaining tower block, Afton Court.

The organisers of the upcoming Green Home Festival are urging religious and community groups to attend their upcoming show and discover how Scotland’s abandoned churches can be transformed into energy efficient social housing that benefits whole communities.

Ian Halliday has lived in Drumchapel his whole life and has seen major changes in the area over the decades – but none more so than the transformation of his home in recent months. Speaking as work concludes on a £1.7 million whole house retrofit of properties at Linkwood Avenue, Mr Hall

An application for recall of an arrestment served by the City of Edinburgh Council on the bank account of a man with unpaid council tax has been granted by an Edinburgh sheriff.

Arbroath residents have been given a first look at plans to convert the historic factory site in the town into affordable homes. First Endeavour LLP has submitted plans with Angus Council to construct affordable homes on the empty land at the former gas works which were demolished in 2010. The site

First Endeavour LLP has applied to Perth and Kinross Council for permission to build 44 new homes in Rattray.

A local authority in England has been ordered to pay almost £13,000 to a resident after delays in providing disability adaptations meant the resident was forced to undertake them himself. The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration for Waverley Borough Council after it unreas

Scottish Borders councillors will be back on the road taking part in Community Conversations 2023, building on the success of last year. The events, which start in August and continue through September, will give members of the public across the Borders an opportunity to meet and talk to their local

Older people’s financial hardship charity Independent Age has urged the Scottish Government to include plans for a pensioner poverty strategy in its upcoming Programme for Government. Around one in seven pensioners in Scotland are in poverty, a number that has risen by a quarter in the la

The July Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey has pointed to a fall in house prices in Scotland for the first time in over three years.

A full planning application for plans to deliver five blocks of affordable flats on the site of a former Perth hospital has now been submitted.

Plans have been revealed to build family homes on green belt land near Strathblane.