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A third round of funding to increase walking, cycling and sustainable travel has been allocated £2 million from the Scottish Government’s active travel budget for 2020/2021.

Almost £3 million of community partnership funding has been awarded to third sector and other community organisations in East Lothian for 2020/21.

A report has been launched into a project in which four local authorities and seven housing associations, funded by the North and Islands Homelessness and Housing Options Hub and managed by Scotland’s Housing Network, explored enhanced practices in relation to section 11 notices.

Spectrum Properties (Scotland) Ltd has submitted plans to convert an empty job centre building in Bridgeton into 49 flats. 

Guillermo Rodríguez-Guzmán from the Centre for Homelessness Impact introduces the newly developed Housing Costs Calculator which aims to help city leaders plan for the transition from emergency homelessness accommodation.

The Scottish Government has approved plans for flats at a former Perth hospital after the local authority failed to rule on the application.

Councillors in Aberdeen have approved plans to build a new three-storey block of flats and agreed to determine separate proposals for a new community of more than 100 homes at a later date.

A special fund to help council tenants worried about rent arrears during the coronavirus crisis has been put in place by North Lanarkshire Council.  The council has set up £300,000 worth of funding to help those tenants whose financial circumstances have been disrupted during the pandemic

A surge in readership during lockdown has taken Scottish Housing News to new heights with increases recorded in subscriptions to the free daily newsletter, website users and social media accounts. Last month the number of individual users on the SHN website broke through 80,000 for the first time. S

Melrose-based housebuilder Rural Renaissance Limited (RRL) has secured a six-figure funding package from Bank of Scotland to support its working capital, enabling it to continue to pay suppliers and honour its contractual commitments during the coronavirus crisis. RRL is parent company to

A developer’s plan to deliver 400 homes in the village of Fallin has opened for consultation.

Douglas Campbell has announced his resignation as leader of South Ayrshire Council due to “increased family commitments”. Cllr Campbell, who will continue serving his Ayr North ward, admitted the decision had been taken with “sadness” and added he was “looking forward&r

A project to regenerate the historic market town of Maybole in Ayrshire has secured £7.5 million in funding to invest in the town centre and key restoration projects over the next four years.

The Scottish Parliament’s health and sport committee is to question the cabinet secretary on the impact of coronavirus on Scotland’s care homes.

Homeless veterans at Scottish Veterans’ Residences (SVR) housing support services in Edinburgh, Dundee and Glasgow will benefit from a generous donation of 350 professionally produced face coverings to use when lockdown starts to ease.