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Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has welcomed two new senior appointments to its West Scotland board of directors, with Craig Benson as finance director and Martin Findlay as technical director joining the team based in its regional office in Paisley. Graeme Smith, former finance director, has been promo

Kingdom Support & Care (KSC) has welcomed four new members to its board of directors. Kelly Brown, Blair Louden and David Robertson were appointed following a successful recruitment campaign and are joined on the board by Tom Barclay, Kingdom Group chief executive.

Yorkhill Housing Association bids farewell this week to one of the longest-serving chief executives in social housing. Marion Menabney joined Yorkhill as a housing officer in 1980 and was very soon promoted to head the Association, a position which, under various titles, she has held for more than 3

Edinburgh-based developer Whiteburn Projects has submitted a detailed planning application for the residential development-led, mixed-use regeneration at March Street in Peebles. 

Bancon Homes is to continue its expansion in the Central Belt of Scotland with a brand new development of two, three and four-bedroom homes in Wilkieston, West Lothian.

Osprey Housing tenants across the north-east of Scotland are benefitting from funding totalling more than £87,500 made available by the Scottish Government to help alleviate financial hardship driven by rising living costs. Managed by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) and

Proposals to redevelop a former Glasgow nightclub into student accommodation have now been submitted in full.

Plans to knock down an abandoned Edinburgh industrial estate in the north east of the city and replace it with ninety-eight flats have been approved by the local authority.

Green Home Systems has been appointed to Greener Futures Partnership’s £1.5 billion Decarbonisation Delivery Framework to provide energy efficiency and retrofit upgrades to housing nationwide. The Greener Futures Partnership (GFP) is a consortium of five housing associations, made up of

A new £250,000 fund for communities and organisations has just been launched by the Scottish Borders Local Action Group (LAG). The LAG funding group is made up of local people and local organisations from the private, public and third sectors and has funding from the Scottish Government availa

A £20 million pay deal for home carers was sealed yesterday as South Lanarkshire Council agreed to backdate the award after negotiations with GMB Scotland.

The Scottish Government has published new rules which mean that all new buildings in Scotland are fitted with climate-friendly heating systems. Scotland’s Heat in Buildings Strategy sets out the Scottish Government’s intention to develop regulations to ensure that new buildings, applying

North Ayrshire’s newest housing development has officially opened at Irvine Harbourside.

After the City of Edinburgh Council’s licensing scheme for short-term lets operators was deemed unlawful at the Court of Session, our sister publication Scottish Legal News has published the following case report.

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