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Members of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee at the Highland Council will today be asked to approve the establishment of a Short Term Let Control Area for Badenoch and Strathspey (Ward 20).

Members of the Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee will consider updated developer contribution rates for education and community facilities when they meet today. Approval of the report will allow the council to apply revised developer contribution rates for schools and com

Blair Milne, James Fennessey and Robert Young, insolvency practitioners from Azets, have been appointed joint administrators of MHA Auchlochan, the owner and operator of Auchlochan Garden Village retirement complex in Lanarkshire, Scotland. The complex, which includes 235 properties and two care hom

More than 220 flats could be built on a former factory site in Glasgow under new plans lodged with the local authority. The application, by landowner Bradley Carson, proposes 224 flats at the old McKellar Watt sausage factory site in Carntyne.

Ken Macintosh, the former Presiding Officer at the Scottish Parliament, has been appointed as chair of Lar Housing Trust. He takes on the role at the housing charity with immediate effect, after his appointment was ratified at the charity’s April Board meeting. He takes over from retiring chai

Architect and TV presenter George Clarke has issued the final call for entries to a creative challenge which will shape the design of a £25 million complex-needs facility. Young people across the country are being invited to take part in a design brief to imagine how a new inclusive community

New analysis from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has revealed the impact CABs have on families at risk of poverty.

A unique community collaboration of fashion design, music and art, took place last week in Saracen House, Possilpark and across Glasgow.

Members of the Highland Council's Housing & Property Committee have approved the new Local Housing Strategy 2023-2028 (LHS). 

Work is officially underway to create over 600 new mixed-tenure homes and apartments, complemented by new improved parks and greenspaces, in Hamiltonhill, North Glasgow. Together with Queens Cross Housing Association, regeneration specialist Urban Union, part of Robertson Group, will deliver ap

Work is set to begin on 48 new social housing homes in Glasgow’s West End with the announcement that full funding for the development is now in place.

Details of how the expanded Fuel Insecurity Fund will be used to help those who need it most through new and existing services have now been revealed. The First Minister announced in March that the Fund will be tripled to £30 million this year.

Elderpark Housing has completed a tartan fundraising triumph for a Govan- based inspiring radio charity. Three members of staff from the housing association took part in Sunday’s KiltWalk to raise money for near neighbour – Sunny G Radio.

Places for People Scotland has today announced the appointment of Katie Smart as its new director. Ms Smart has worked at Places for People for the past 12 years and has been interim director of Places for People Scotland for the past six months.

A letting company that ostensibly rented residential flats in Edinburgh on a holiday letting basis has been refused permission to appeal to the Upper Tribunal against a decision that it was in breach of the repairing standard for residential properties.