The Trump Organisation will have to pay £5 million towards affordable housing should plans to build luxury housing near the US president’s Aberdeenshire golf course gain planning approval, according to reports. Plans to build 550 new homes on a site within the Trump International Golf Links estat
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Sheltered housing tenants in Edinburgh have today launched their intention to monitor performance in council sheltered housing services every three months. Following a survey of 141 tenants across the city, sheltered housing tenants have set indicators about how they want services to improve and wan
A study by mental health charity Mind has found that one in three social housing tenants with mental health problems in England are dissatisfied with where they live. More than two in five (43 per cent) of social housing tenants with mental health problems have seen their mental health deteriorate a
Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes
A ground breaking ceremony has taken place to mark the beginning of construction for a state-of-the-art energy centre at RWE’s Markinch CHP biomass plant in Fife. Glenrothes Energy Network is a £24 million collaborative local heat scheme between Fife Council, RWE and the Scottish Government. It w
The townscape around the historic Arbroath Abbey is beginning to change as 40 new homes begin to emerge in the Abbey Quarter. Twelfth century meets the 21st on the rise just off the A92 Montrose Road in what is the latest clear signal of efforts to transform and reconnect the town and its people - p
Plans for hundreds of new homes to be built in Blairgowrie have received planning approval from Perth and Kinross Council. Planning officials had recommended approving the Westpark Partnership’s application to build 400 houses as well as new retail and business space on the town’s western edge,
Margaret Davidson A bid to scrap Highland Council’s £200 million housing debt and the Inverness and Highlands City-Region Deal are among the matters to be discussed today as the local authority visit officials in the UK government.
How the homes will look from Ocean Terminal A decision on a major housing-led mixed-use scheme proposed for Leith’s Waterfront Plaza has been deferred by councillors.
An aerial view of the proposed development Proposals for one of Edinburgh’s largest viable brownfield developments will be put forward for determination at a planning committee this week.
Scotland’s business leaders have urged ministers to address transport infrastructure and affordable housing issues for the country’s islands communities. A survey of 275 island firms by the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) has revealed 88% of respondents stated they faced other challenges th
Developers have unveiled plans to build 62 homes on the site of a former Dundee school. Persimmon Homes North Scotland has lodged proposals with Dundee City Council for the old Kingspark School site in Gillburn Road, Kirkton after acquiring the site for £3.3 million in December.
Proposals to overhaul the planning system in Scotland are unlikely to have any positive effect in meeting the demands and aspirations of communities and the development industry, councillors have told the Scottish Government. Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee (ISC) has writ
An alliance of ten organisations from the planning and placemaking sector in Scotland has launched a new campaign to help influence new planning guidelines ahead of the upcoming Planning Bill. The Scottish Alliance for People and Places, which includes COSLA and the Scottish Federation of Housing As
South Ayrshire Council’s largest affordable housing project to date was completed in Lochside last year Scotland’s councils are ready to respond to the Scottish Government’s call to deliver 35,000 new social rented homes during this parliament with plans in place to double the number of new ho