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CBI Scotland has called for a national housing target to be set and more funding to be allocated to planning departments to improve the speed of decision-making.

Perth & Kinross Council has announced plans to transform a housing block in St Catherine's Square into flats in an attempt to help tackle homelessness across the region.

Ovo Energy has agreed to pay £8.9 million for issuing inaccurate or incomplete information to customers, and for under and overcharging customers due to IT issues.  Ofgem said the breaches occurred while Ovo did not put enough attention to ensuring its processes and governance were capabl

Mary Black will lead a new-look board at ANCHO after the North Ayrshire-based housing association made a raft of new appointments. Steven Travers, Leanne Stirling, Kelly Arrol, Nigel Fortnum, Colin Love and Michael Donnelly are joining the ANCHO board and bring with them decades of collect

Campion Homes has been granted permission to build 29 new homes in Star of Markinch. Concerns had been raised about the Fife village's infrastructure, including its primary school, roads and pavements, and its inability to cope with an influx of people.

The continuing uncertainty around Scottish Government investment in housing post-2021 risks reversing the work being done to tackle homelessness, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has warned following the publication of new statistics. The latest homelessness figures from the Sc

Music in Hospitals & Care has received £900 in funding from Cairn Housing Association to continue its work visiting hospitals, hospices, care homes, day centres, special schools and community settings to spread ‘Joy Through Live Music’.

The American firm which manufactured the flammable cladding panels used on Grenfell Tower has spent $40 million on legal and advisory fees linked to the incident, it has emerged. In its fourth-quarter report released this week, Arconic revealed that it has forked out $2m on Grenfell advisory fe

A new working group of MSPs, academics, industry and environmental organisations will convene this week to discuss actions to meet Scotland’s new emissions targets.

The amount given in crisis grants increased by more than a third in one quarter as low-income families were provided with more than £3 million to cover emergencies.

Greenock town centre has replaced Ferguslie Park in Paisley as the most deprived area of Scotland, according to official figures. The latest update of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) 2020 has been published which identifies the places in Scotland where people are experiencing disad

Graeme Brown has announced his intention to step down as director of Shelter Scotland after almost 12 years in the role. Having been in the top job at the charity since July 2008, Mr Brown was previously director of communications, policy and campaigns for Shelter UK.

River Clyde Homes Group's building, repairs and maintenance contractor Home Fix Scotland has donated materials and tools to Inverclyde Community Shed, an organisation aimed at combating loneliness and isolation in the region.

A new guide has been published detailing how organisations can take the public with them when planning new building developments or other activities.

A housing association in England has received a governance downgrade after it lost nearly £1 million as a result of a cyber scam.