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Wheatley Group has launched a modern apprentice recruitment drive, hoping to recruit 25 youngsters for its two-year programme. The apprenticeships are funded by Wheatley Foundation, the group’s charitable trust which helps tackle unemployment.

A project that offers tenement homeowners free advice to tackle problems over communal upkeep is to receive an extra £50,000 from the Scottish Government. An additional £10,000 will support research into potential safety issues, such as electrical fires.

Representatives from Aberdeen City Council, Scottish Fire and Rescue Scotland (SFRS) and Police Scotland are to accompany residents as they lead inspections in their own multi-storey buildings.

Falkirk Council has set its budget for 2020/21, agreeing on a 4.84% increase in Council Tax for the year which will see an average ‘Band D’ Council Tax figure increase by £56.58 a year. The council has highlighted that despite the increase, council tax in the area remains one of th

The Scottish Government’s Housing to 2040 process needs to combine radical, new approaches with what is already known to work, according to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF). Responding to the consultation, GWSF welcomed the indication that ministers want to

Work has completed on a £5.4 million transformative new community built on a greenfield site in the Newburgh area of Fife. A total of 40 high-quality affordable homes have been delivered at Banklands by Robertson Partnership Homes, part of Robertson Residential Group.

Cruden Homes has appointed Rory Stephens as senior land & development manager in the East of Scotland. Rory, a chartered surveyor, will be focusing on sourcing new opportunities across Cruden Group’s core areas of bespoke private residential development, mixed-tenure regeneration and affor

The 2020/21 budget proposed by Angus Council’s administration was set at a special meeting of full council on Friday, with an agreement reached to raise council tax by 3%. The council said that the equivalent of 269 new houses expected to raise £315k of extra income. It argued that the m

The Scottish Government’s proposals for a longer-term plan for the housing system are welcome but the success of the current programme – as well as the next – will depend on creating a socially just housing system, maintaining existing levels of investment as well as aligning fundi

Living Rent has hailed the success of its actions last week after protesters from the tenants’ union shut down a property investment workshop in Edinburgh. The event, which was to be hosted by the BBC’s Martin Roberts, of Homes Under the Hammer fame, boasted that it would teach landlords

CIH Scotland’s Housing Festival takes place at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre 3 – 4 March. The biggest housing event in Scotland brings together around 1,000 housing professionals, expert speakers and exhibitors to discuss challenges and solutions.  

Plans have been submitted for the third phase of an award-winning development in the Gorbals area of Glasgow.

Scottish school children should be taught how their actions now can impact on climate change and the kind of homes they will live in in the future. Scottish Land & Estates (SLE) has called for more education for school kids on the important role housing plays in our lives, in response to the Sco

Glasgow-based construction firm City Building celebrated the leap year with a special party for one of its employees.

Glasgow lawyer Mike Dailly has quit the Social Justice Commission set up by the SNP to consider how an independent Scotland could tackle poverty and inequality. Mr Dailly, principal solicitor at Govan Law Centre, was appointed late last year to the body, which was established to build upon the earli