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Plans to enhance broadband connection speeds in new homes across Scotland are being considered.

Cala Homes (West) has submitted a planning application for the third and final phase of homes at its Sequoia Meadows development in Jackton, East Kilbride.

Kingdom Housing Association welcomed members, board members and staff to the organisation’s first fully hybrid Annual General Meeting on Monday evening, at Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline, which saw two long-serving board members stand down. The theme for the Annual General Meeting w

Glasgow City Mission will open its Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) for the 14th year in a row on 1 December 2023.

Persimmon West Scotland has announced plans for the construction of 426 new homes in Kilwinning, with construction to begin later this year.

Plans to demolish a warehouse in Edinburgh to make way for a student accommodation development for 155 students have been granted planning permission. Danehurst Developments has been given the green light to progress its proposals for four to six-storey student accommodation on the site of

Cairn Housing Association chief executive Jason MacGilp has been appointed as the newest board member at environmental charity Changeworks. Jason will be instrumental in providing governance in support of Changeworks’ strategic aim to decarbonise Scotland’s homes to tackle the clima

Two Edinburgh charities have been selected to share Taylor Wimpey East Scotland's Community Chest of £2,000. The housebuilder, which is building new homes at West Craigs, Maybury in Edinburgh and Lauder Grove in Ratho Station, launched the project on social media asking the local communit

Scotland’s failed planning system is having an impact on housing associations being able to deliver the number of affordable homes required to meet Scottish Government targets and tackle poverty and homelessness, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has warned. SFHA CEO Sally

The first step in the preparation of the town centre masterplan for Fort William has been completed by Threesixty Architecture.

Rural Stirling Housing Association is powering ahead “with ambitious plans” to keep on building new homes across Stirlingshire, attendees to its AGM were told. The good news delivered at the well-attended event held at the McLaren Leisure Centre in Callander also included that communitie

Build-to-rent developer and operator Moda Living has secured its fourth three-star Fitwel certification for its first Glasgow neighbourhood, Moda, Holland Park, which is due to open its doors later this year.

Moray Council has reaffirmed its commitment to improving the quality and value of the services it provides for tenants through the signing of the annual assurance statement. Housing and Community Safety Committee chair, Cllr Amber Dunbar, and vice-chair, Cllr Donald Gatt, signed the assurance statem

Housebuilders, banks and investors who gathered to discuss the findings in a new ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) report agreed that capital availability for developments is soon likely to be increasingly linked to ESG performance.

The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland has ordered two landlords, one in Glasgow and another in Edinburgh, to pay at least double the amount of tenancy deposits withheld from their tenants after finding them in breach of the Tenancy Deposit Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011.