Kieran Findlay

Five years after Scotland’s first large‑scale water‑source heat pump went live at Queens Quay, the district heat network designed and delivered by Vital Energi is now supplying hundreds of homes across Clydebank.

Shelter Scotland has urged the incoming Scottish Government to retain the cabinet secretary for housing post, warning that momentum on tackling the national housing emergency will stall if the role is downgraded.

Homelessness in Scotland is increasingly driven by poverty, poor health and systemic pressures across public services, according to a major new briefing from Public Health Scotland (PHS).

Scotland’s housing sector has urged the newly elected Scottish Parliament to put long‑term policy stability and cross‑party collaboration at the heart of the next parliamentary term, as organisations begin to assess what a significantly reshaped Holyrood will mean for housing delivery, af

CIH Scotland has urged ministers to take a “clear, proportionate and implementable” approach to new incentives and penalties aimed at accelerating homebuilding, warning that fiscal levers alone will not resolve the systemic barriers slowing delivery across the country.

At least 104 children in England have died since April 2019 with temporary accommodation (TA) cited as a contributing factor to their vulnerability, ill‑health, or death, a stark new report has revealed.

Scottish Housing News has released a new podcast episode exploring how social landlords are preparing for sweeping new statutory duties on damp and mould — and why the sector may already be ahead of the curve. The Investigation and Commencement of Repairs (Scotland) Regulations 2026, inspired

Scotland’s leading voices on accessible housing have urged the Scottish Government to put inclusive homes at the heart of its agenda ahead of May’s election, warning that the country is “nowhere near prepared” for the scale of demographic change coming.

Gillian McLees arrived at her first Scotland’s Housing Festival as CIH Scotland director with a message that set the tone for her leadership: evolution, not revolution. It’s a phrase she has used more than once in conversation, and it captures her belief that the organisation doesn&rsquo

Fragmented ownership, chronic underinvestment, and slow legislative progress are pushing thousands of tenements into deepening disrepair, but with cross-party and cross-sector support for compulsory owners' associations and building reserve funds, a potential positive future could be around the corn

Scotland’s social landlords are facing renewed pressure to adopt meaningful anti‑racism policies after new research laid bare the extent to which Black people and people of colour are being failed by the housing system. Speaking on the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Shelter Scotland’s

Scotland’s housing bodies have given a broadly positive but pointedly pragmatic response to the First Minister’s plan to create More Homes Scotland, a new national housing agency intended to accelerate delivery across all tenures.

A stable, multi‑year funding settlement must be the next Scottish Government’s top priority if Scotland is to reverse stalled development pipelines and respond meaningfully to the housing emergency, according to the latest episode of The Scottish Housing News Podcast. Campion Homes joint man

A major independent review of how Scotland’s key agencies engage with the planning system has been published by the Scottish Government, setting out 17 recommendations aimed at speeding up decisions, reducing complexity and strengthening collaboration across the sector.

More than £4 billion of public investment will support the delivery of 36,000 additional affordable homes over the next four years, finance secretary Shona Robison confirmed as she delivered the Scottish Government’s final budget before May’s election. Unveiling the 2026/27 spendin