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More than 94,000 prepayment meters were last year forcibly installed in homes without customer consent, with just three energy suppliers responsible for over 70% of all forced installations.

Aberdeenshire Council is hoping to encourage a greater take-up of residential positions within some of its sheltered housing schemes.

A new planning application has been submitted for a previously consented proposal to deliver 28 flats above three retail units in Dundee city centre after the original submission expired.

More than half a million people in Scotland expect to increase the use of their overdraft during the cost of living crisis, analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland has found.

Kingdom Housing Association has celebrated recent successes and launched its 2023 Corporate Plan at a well-attended event held at Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline. Over 150 staff, board members and special guests were in attendance at the event which also recognized the contributions made b

A family-run housebuilder has lodged a planning application for 29 new detached homes built on land just off Glasgow Road in Kilmarnock. Muir Homes intends to build three, four and five-bedroom homes in what will be its first development in East Ayrshire.

A developer has submitted plans for a block of eight flats in Renfrew.

The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC) has unveiled a £2 billion finance vehicle designed to help housing associations deliver on their sustainability objectives across new and existing homes.

A programme run by Sanctuary Scotland is among the 17 projects to receive an allocation of £6 million from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) in Glasgow.

The latest poverty and income inequality statistics expose endemic bias in Scotland’s broken housing system, Shelter Scotland has said. The housing and homelessness charity has called for urgent action to deliver more social homes, which it says is the only way to address Scotland’s

Dunkeld, Perthshire has been named as the Best Place to Live in Scotland in the annual Sunday Times Best Places to Live guide.

Aileen McGuire, chief executive at Parkhead Housing Association (PHA), has launched the Association’s new Tenant Participation Strategy hailing it “a new dawn for tenant involvement at Parkhead". The strategy was the result of joint working between PHA Scrutiny Panel members, Registered

Eight built environment bodies, fire safety organisations and disability rights groups have signed a joint letter to the Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, urging him to require more than one staircase in new residential buildings over 18 metres tall.

LBA has submitted plans to build twelve new homes off Poppleburn Park at Ednam in the Scottish Borders.

The development of up to 400 new homes and a new 60-bed care village are the key features of the proposed Tweedbank expansion project, details of which are included in a new report to Scottish Borders Council. The report sets out the overall vision for the project which aims to achieve a sustainable