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Community-based rugby has scored another try recently as a North Glasgow team took on the Clydebank Titans RFC.

Preparatory works are due to start next week on the Herdmanflat site in Haddington following the appointment of Cruden Group as main contractor.

Fife Housing Group hosted a fun-filled community event to showcase the recipients of the £20,000 Giving Something Back grant funding they distribute annually.  This year’s celebrations took place at Rosyth Parish Church and brought together local organisations, residents and support

Warmworks, an organisation with a decade of experience in tackling fuel poverty across Scotland, has opened an office in Lerwick to support the local community during the delivery of the new Heat and Energy Efficient Scotland: Area-Based Scheme. The Heat and Energy Efficient Scotland: Area-Based Sch

A new housing development for people with additional support needs (ASN) could be created in Tranent, with proposals for ten residential flats now lodged with East Lothian Council.

Plans to conserve and redevelop a bingo hall in Leith into new student homes have been granted planning permission.

Scotland’s largest construction trade association has welcomed the Scottish Government’s Housing Emergency Action Plan, but has warned that it is “absolutely vital” for the country to have a pipeline of qualified and skilled professionals to deliver it. SELECT has responded p

A long-established Perth golf club faces potential closure after councillors rejected its joint bid with contractor Kilmac Ltd to deliver a major mixed-use development.

Forty-two public sector bodies are to benefit from a bumper rebate pot worth £563,104. Now in its eighth year, the long-running rebate initiative has returned more than £4.8 million to public sector partners, rewarding their investment in housing, community infrastructure, energy efficie

Cruden Homes has submitted a planning application for a major residential development on Broad Street, Denny, in Falkirk.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has been granted planning permission by East Renfrewshire Council to deliver 125 new homes that will form a key part of the Barrhead South Masterplan.

Elected members will be asked to make a ‘preliminary decision’ on how the Musselburgh Flood Protection Scheme will progress and consider valid objections at a full meeting of East Lothian Council.

House prices in Scotland edged up in August despite demand falling flat, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, and surveyors are optimistic that sales will rise through the months ahead.

The Highland Council is taking firm planning enforcement action in response to a growing issue involving the sale and marketing of small plots of land in areas such as Achnabobane, Inchbae, Garve, Roy Bridge, Spean Bridge and Daviot. The local authority said these plots are often advertised with mis

Moray Council has been awarded £1.769 million by the Scottish Government to make homes in the region more energy efficient.