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The number of new homes registered by the National House Building Council (NHBC) during the first quarter of 2024 has increased by 4% compared to the same period last year.

Accountant and business adviser CT has promoted social housing sector specialist Stuart Beattie, who moves into the role of director. Stuart, who is also the firm’s head of RSLs, joined CT in 2005 as a trainee and has since developed his expertise within the Scottish social housing sector, sup

Plans to build 22 new homes for social rent in Arden have been submitted to Glasgow City Council. AS Homes Scotland Ltd wants to build properties to be let by Glen Oaks Housing Association on the outskirts of the city at Kilmuir Crescent.

Plans have been unveiled for new seafront flats to be delivered on the site of a former children’s cancer home in Prestwick. Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd wants to develop 40 flats within four blocks at the former Malcolm Sargent House on Links Road.

Falkirk Council has published a new anti-poverty strategy that sets out how the council can expand on previous work with renewed efforts to address poverty over the next five years. With a focus on maximising household incomes and reducing living costs, such as utility and energy costs, 'Building a

Fife Council's Cabinet Committee has agreed to purchase four brand new houses in High Valleyfield. The three-bed properties, within a single terraced block in Catherines Wynd, are in an area of high demand and will help to reduce the waiting list for families needing larger rental houses in the West

The maintenance and improvement of existing council homes remains a key priority in West Lothian Council's Housing Capital budget with approximately £8.2 million to be invested in planned programme work during this financial year from April 2024 until the end of March 2025.

Two major steps forward have been taken in the plans to deliver a brighter future for Hamilton town centre.

NHS Tayside has lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government to overturn the refusal of housing development plans for the former Royal Liff Hospital site. In February, Dundee City Council rejected a planning in principle application which sought to convert the land into residential use.

A specialist service that helps people claim Universal Credit has unlocked almost £125 million for people in Scotland in the past five years. Universal Credit is a government benefit payment designed to help with living costs. It's paid monthly (or twice a month for some people in Scotland), a

After his colleagues at Anderson Bell + Christie (AB+C) completed work on the second phase of the Laurieston development in Glasgow, Alasdair Blair was so impressed by the well-proportioned design and how light and space were so carefully considered, that it wasn’t long before he and his wife

The Scottish Government does not know if it is on track to meet its new housebuilding targets as it has not undertaken any internal work to calculate new-build plans or projections, according to the Scottish Conservatives. In response to a Freedom of Information request submitted by the party o

This week marks Learning at Work Week, which is an annual event designed to raise awareness of how important and beneficial continuous learning is.

An opportunity exists to build on the “continuity of the commitment and policy of Land Reform” that is shared by a majority of Scotland including a majority in the Scottish Parliament, Michael Russell, chair of the Scottish Land Commission has said. Mr Russell opened his keynot

Reidvale Housing Association’s management committee welcomed representatives of the Scottish Housing Regulator as work continues to achieve the necessary standards of regulatory compliance.