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

New figures have revealed a rise in the number of new homes registered in Scotland last year. The latest statistics from the National House Building Council (NHBC) state 12,785 new homes were registered to be built in the country in 2017, compared with 11,574 in 2016.

Plans have been submitted for a new ‘retirement village’ containing 252 homes and an 80-bed care home in Newton Mearns. Situated off Netherplace Road, Newton Mearns Retirement Village has been conceived by Jewitt & Wilkie Architects on behalf of Newton Mearns Projects to cater exclusively fo

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.

An ageing housing block on the edge of Perth city centre is to be regenerated to complement plans for a nearby £30 million cinema and shopping complex. The Courier has reported that Perth and Kinross Council is planning an overhaul of St Catherine’s Square to ensure it fits in with the Mill Quart

Living Rent organised a protest at the block in October Partick Housing Association has denied claims by Living Rent that the tenants’ union won a promise of “massive rent reductions” in one of the Association’s block of flats.

The five-a-side event for footie-loving firms, which runs through January and February, culminates in finals day at the state-of-the-art SoccerWorld venue in Glasgow. What do you get when you merge five-a-side football and business? You get Business Fives.

Developer Glencairn Properties has submitted a planning application for a new residential development on the site of a former Art Deco cinema building on Great Junction Street in Edinburgh’s Leith area. The proposal sets out plans to create a total of 36 residential properties comprising a mix of

A state-of-the-art housing development which is expected to have a major positive impact on the lives of older people has been officially opened. The £2.8 million development at Robert W Service Court, Kilwinning, has been designed to specifically meet the needs of the older population in North Ayr

Ardenglen Housing Association has delivered a welfare rights windfall to its tenants worth almost half a million pounds. The Castlemilk Association has revealed nearly three hundred people were assisted by its welfare rights service in just a year.

David Gauke MP The roll out of the devolution of welfare powers to Scotland and concerns over Universal Credit will be raised by the Scottish Parliament’s social security committee when it takes evidence from secretary of state for work and pensions David Gauke MP.

Glasgow City Council has set aside almost £50 million to bring up to 500 properties under public ownership as a newspaper investigation revealed many homes to be in a state of squalor and landlords with serious criminal convictions. In the past nine months, a total of 22 landlords with millions of

Dunedin Canmore managing director Hazel Young, Councillor Gavin Barrie and Dunedin Canmore tenant Mark Keane, officially open the Click & Connect centre A new state-of-the-art digital learning centre providing free internet and computer access has opened at Edinburgh’s Slateford Green Communit

Partnership housing provider Lovell has begun work on a new £3.4 million development of 30 flats for social rent just off Lasswade Road, five miles south of Edinburgh City centre. Constructed on behalf of Link Group Ltd, the development is expected to reach completion in late October. The finished

Terrie Alafat The latest benefit cap statistics released by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) show there is a need for the UK government to re-look at welfare policies, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has said.

Springfield Properties has handed over an additional six homes at their affordable housing development in Muirhouse bringing the total number of occupied homes to 132, one step closer to their 202 house target. The housebuilder has teamed up with leading social housing providers in Edinburgh, Dunedi