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Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes

Ayrshire Housing is supporting this year’s Ayrshire Doors Open Day. The association has given a grant to the organisers, the Kyle and Carrick Civic Society, to purchase ten more banners to advertise the growing number of venues.

Some of Fife’s finest were treated to a fun-filled afternoon last week as the Fife Housing Association Alliance hosted a free afternoon tea for their older tenants. In an effort to help tackle the loneliness and isolation often experienced by our senior citizens, tenants of Fife Housing Group, Kin

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Gheila Galbraith, sales consultant for Mactaggart & Mickel Homes, with Kirsty Aitken, service manager for Children 1st Ayrshire and members of her team The Ayrshire Family Support team of Scotland’s national children’s charity Children 1st has received a donation of £1,000 from housebuilder

RICS, as part of its Pledge 150 campaign, has joined forces with Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park to help reduce homelessness among young people in Scotland. Corporate teams and RICS members can now take part in any of the Sleep in the Park events, across Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen wit

Annie Mauger Even the lowest private rents are now out of reach for people on low incomes – putting thousands at increased risk of homelessness, the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) has found.

An artist's impression of the previously approved Dunbeg masterplan A major development of 300 affordable homes in Dunbeg has been approved by Argyll and Bute Council’s planning committee.

Alan Russell Last night was Alan Russell’s first night at the helm of Hillcrest Housing Association.

(from left) Stuart Pendreich, Dunedin Canmore investment officer, Evelyn McDowall, Wheatley director of business solutions, David Logan, Wheatley area asset planning manager, David Stewart, SFHA, Graham Simpson, MSP, Euan Leitch, director of Built Environment Forum Scotland, Jackie Timmons, City of

Ligia Teixeira Clore Social Leadership and the Centre for Homelessness Impact have announced details of a new partnership in response to the increasing crisis in housing and homelessness and the need for stronger, evidence based approach to leadership within the sector.

Planning and design consultancy Barton Willmore is are urging planners and developers to have their say and complete a survey to help influence the Planning (Scotland) Bill. Barton Willmore, who recently expanded its operation in Scotland with the opening of an office in the centre of Glasgow, have

Jon Stinson and Julio Bros Williamson, research fellows in the Institute for Sustainable Construction at Edinburgh Napier University, believe that smarter, better, faster – homes built in a factory benefit everyone. The methods we use to build homes in the UK are constantly evolving.

Argyll and Bute Council’s housing services team brought a total of 55 empty homes back into use last year – double the annual target. The team’s successes were highlighted at last week’s community services committee meeting.

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel Homes has been given planning permission to build an exclusive development of six bespoke properties on the site of the former Whitecraigs bowling club in Giffnock. Due to begin on site in Autumn next year, the showpiece of the development will be the former ‘a