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The Scottish Government has launched a call for applications to its Community And Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES) with up to £5 million available. Administered and managed by Local Energy Scotland, CARES was established by the Scottish Government to encourage local and community ownership of renewa

Bill Crossan and Thomas Gillan Responsible finance provider Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has launched a new mission-led investment venture aimed at stimulating social entrepreneurship in Scotland.

A division of construction company CCG (Scotland) Ltd has reported a record year as the company completed over 1,800 jobs for clients across the country. With a workforce of over 120 operatives and supported by 21 apprentices, the Asset Management division offers a range of services, including heati

A new £800 million residential project in Aberdeen is to become the first town development to sign up to the North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership (NESBP). Stewart Milne Group, the developer behind the 3,000-home Countesswells development, has joined forces with NESBP on several wildlife pro

Golfing professionals from Scotland’s Construction, Housing & Property sector will take part for their chance to be crowned national business golf champions 2018. It won’t be just the fairways and trees getting smashed as demolition and industrial dismantling specialists, Kinetic Demolition

The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) has highlighted a number of difficulties surrounding plans to install sprinklers into all social housing residences and instead called for a holistic approach to be taken to fire safety. A consultation on a potential private members bill from High

Aberdeenshire Council’s latest new-build development has been completed with 16 affordable homes in Inverurie now ready for occupation. The development at North Street, a mix of one and two-bedroom flats for rent, was handed over to the council by contractor Bancon Homes, which designed and built

The latest batch of new affordable homes were opened in Stirling yesterday at the Royal Park View development in Raploch. Local councillors, tenants and invited guests attended the official ribbon cutting ceremony, following the completion of 20 new properties for Stirling Council tenants.

The Scottish Land Commission has begun work on developing proposals for new Compulsory Sale Order (CSO) power to make use of derelict and urban vacant land. CSOs would be a new legal mechanism available to local authorities to require abandoned buildings or small plots of land, that have been dereli

Attendees of the taster session Partick Housing Association has teamed up with construction firm City Building to offer a taster session for its Apprenticeship 2018 programme.

Kathie Pollard Scottish Land Commission policy officer, Kathie Pollard, looks at Compulsory Sale Orders.

Councillor Trish Robertson; Mairi Ross Grey, More Homes Division Manager, Highlands, Islands & Moray & councillors Isabelle MacKenzie and Ian Brown are pictured welcoming Mr and Mrs Davidson to their new home Work on six new homes suitable for wheelchair users in Inverness is now complete.

The population of the Highland village of Evanton could potentially double in the coming years after councillors approved plans for a 160-home development and were informed of another 150 new homes in the pipeline. Building firm Makar Limited is to build the mix of semi-detached, terraced and town h

A construction firm has secured permission to build three blocks of flats on land near McDiarmid Park in Perth at the third time of asking. GS Brown scrapped two previous plans to transform an acre of vacant land off Allison Crescent after opposition from residents.

David Bookbinder The benefits and costs of installing sprinklers in social housing need to be weighed against the many other pressures on the rents tenants pay, according to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF).