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Kevin Scarlett Interest is growing across Scotland in the new sector scorecard pilot, with several new housing associations indicating that they will submit data in 2018.

Council leader Shona Haslam Scottish Borders Council has agreed its budget for the year ahead as part of a five-year revenue plan and a ten-year capital plan.

Plans to transform the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) site in Hamilton into an ‘urban village’ complete with 365 homes and a five-storey hotel have been given the green light.

The designer of a pioneering spoon which allows people with disabilities to eat without spilling has paid tribute to housing care and housing provider Blackwood for the honour which propelled his invention into worldwide success. Grant Douglas, who has cerebral palsy, won the Blackwood Design Award

Matt Lowther With only a week to go until the CIH Housing Festival of 2018, Matt Lowther said his NHS Health Scotland colleagues are in full swing as they embrace event planning.

Springfield’s Dykes of Gray development in Dundee Housebuilder Springfield Properties has reported double-digit growth in profit and revenue in its first set of interim results since the company floated on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM).

Stewart Milne Group has said its timber systems arm is on course to achieve turnover of £100 million by 2021 after doubling its business in the last four years. With a current turnover of £65m, Stewart Milne Timber Systems should achieve its five-year target, with “robust” growth predicted for

Judith Proctor Judith Proctor has been recommended as the preferred candidate for the post of chief officer of the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board and director of the Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership.

(from left) Councillor Douglas Lumsden, Fergus Ewing MSP, Guilhem Poussot (Vodafone) and Greg Mesch (CityFibre) Aberdeen is set to become Scotland’s first city in which nearly every home and business will have access to gigabit-speed broadband.

Rachel Lowther in her studio at Glasgow Sculpture Studios. Photo by Kate V Robertson A group of Scottish contemporary artists have launched an adoption scheme aimed at recovering sculptures languishing in storage so it can be enjoyed by the public.

The conversion of a former Dundee college building into Build to Rent and Serviced Apartments can begin in earnest after the VOX Dundee project was awarded planning consent by councillors. Voxcap Investments (Dundee) has appointed Reigart Contracts to undertake enabling works to facilitate the redev

A developer has launched an appeal to the Scottish Government in a bid overturn Aberdeenshire Council’s decision to reject its plans for almost 250 new homes. Barratt North Scotland had proposed to deliver 247 homes on Fordoun Road in Laurencekirk.

Investment of almost £26 million is being proposed for Stirling under a draft administration budget and capital plan published ahead of a meeting this week. The proposals would see Stirling Council investing over £1m in initiatives including a pilot project to target holiday hunger among school pu

Fife Housing Group colleagues and Lumphinnans TRA members at the site they hope to transform into a community garden. (from left) Audrey Cameron (FHG housing officer); Dot Cairns (TRA chair); Tracey McCann (TRA treasurer) and Helen Miller (FHG engagement officer) Lumphinnans Tenants’ and Residents

Young adults today are significantly less likely to be homeowners than those born just five or ten years earlier due to a 152% increase in average house prices, a report has found. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said that those born in the late 1980s had a homeownership rate of 25%, compared