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The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) and the Scottish Government have launched a 'one-stop' portal designed to improve the confidence of digital skills among all planners in their everyday roles.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has submitted a detailed planning application to South Lanarkshire Council for a range of new homes to complete the Newton Farm masterplan in Cambuslang.

Argyll and Bute Council has detailed key actions being undertaken with its partners to address key issues since becoming the first local authority in Scotland to declare a housing emergency.

Fife Council has declared a housing emergency in the Kingdom.

The Scottish Housing News Charity Spotlight feature highlights the vital work of charities across Scotland each Friday. To include your local charity, whether housing-related or not, send your story and images to us at newsdesk@scottishnews.com.

From Monday 1 April, tenants of Melville Housing Association will have a new maintenance service designed to deliver improved levels of customer service.

The current pressures facing the housing sector and the people living in the communities we serve are undeniable. The impact of the global pandemic, the cost of living crisis along with the current economic and social landscape have forced us all to operate in an unprecedented environment of uncerta

Step back in time and explore the excavation site with guided tours led by archaeologists at an open day in Edinburgh this Satuday.

A wide-ranging plan to deliver net-zero improvements in energy and heating systems across Stirling and Clackmannanshire has been approved.

Social enterprise Places for People and its fund management business, Thriving Investments, have acquired Rosewood Housing, the for-profit registered provider of high-quality, affordable homes, from FRP, the administrator of Inland Homes PLC.

Transformation plans to guide the regeneration of Glasgow city centre to 2030 have been approved by Glasgow City Council. Major office, residential, hospitality and public realm developments - including Candleriggs Square, the Barclays campus in Tradeston, the Love Loan development at George Street,

The average property selling price in Edinburgh, the Lothians, Fife, and the Borders declined 4.6% year-on-year to £272,096 between September 2023 and February 2024, according to ESPC.

Conservation and repair work started this week to help safeguard two historic buildings in Lochgilphead.

Fife Council has terminated contracts with a major housebuilder to build 203 affordable homes after work across four sites failed to resume since December. First Endeavour LLP had been operating construction work on the sites in Lochore, Lumphinnans, Dunfermline and Kirkcaldy before work halted

Councillors have given the green light to almost 40 homes on the outskirts of Barrhead despite planners’ recommending the development should be refused. Briar Homes wants to develop land at Lyoncross Farm, off Aurs Road, promoting the “natural extension of Barrhead” and providing a