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A total of 18 new affordable homes will be built on the Isle of Arran by the Arran Development Trust (ADT) as part of the Rowarden Affordable Housing Project.

An appeal has gone out for individuals to take part in a working group to help understand the issues being faced by those experiencing poverty and inequality. Aberdeen City Council’s Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee is looking for support from a group of up to 12 individuals for an initia

People struggling to pay their council tax during the cost of living crisis are being encouraged to check if they are eligible for money off their bill.

A marketing campaign to support the recruitment of more adult social care workers has launched this week, to help address the high level of vacancies in the sector. The campaign – titled ‘there is more to care than caring’ - will raise awareness of the career opportunities availabl

Sector body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced the promotion of planning team members Liz Hamilton and Richard Lewington. Liz Hamilton becomes director of planning and Richard Principal is the body's new planning adviser.

A total of 44 new homes are earmarked for construction at the site of Brechin Infirmary, which is set for demolition. Earlier this week, Angus Council cleared the way for the demolition of the infirmary, bringing an end to hopes of the site being saved for community use.

Andrew Saunders is to retire from Ore Valley Housing Association at the end of June this year, after more than 23 years of service to the organisation. During the period of his tenure, the organisation has more than doubled the number of social housing homes it owns and manages and has also develope

Work is due to begin to demolish four Glasgow tower blocks after a majority of tenants backed ambitious proposals for the regeneration of the Wyndford estate. Wheatley Homes Glasgow announced plans last year to invest £73 million in building 300 new homes in the area and carrying out other maj

A housing developer that challenged the rejection of planning permission for around a hundred houses to the north of Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, has lost its appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has been appointed to provide quantity surveying services to the first Enerphit standard pilot project in the north of Scotland.

As part of a series written by the Housing and Place Delivery Forum members reflecting on Scotland’s revised and soon-to-be-adopted fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), Steven Tolson argues that planners will be judged on the outcomes they deliver and that real change will require

Illegal meter-tampering is putting people’s lives at risk as they resort to increasingly desperate measures to reduce spiralling energy bills, two leading electrical and plumbing trade bodies have warned. Campaigning electrical association SELECT and the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing

The first families have been handed the keys to their new homes at a social housing development in Linlithgow. Cala Homes (East) has handed over 14 new affordable homes at its Queenswood development to the north east of the town to Wheatley Homes East.

Housebuilders have highlighted a "worrying" drop in the number of new homes being started in Scotland as the accumulated shortfall of homes of all tenures built since 2007 has grown to over 110,000.

The chief executive of North Ayrshire Council Craig Hatton will write to the First Minister and the Depute First Minister to express the council’s "extreme disappointment" with the budget settlement for local government. A motion passed at a special meeting of North Ayrshire Council asks the c