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Housing Options Scotland (HOS) has launched its report on how Scottish housing allocations policies support service leavers and veterans. Gina Wilson, volunteer development worker for the Military Matters service at HOS, undertook the research to find out what provision housing policies make for vet

COSLA has announced Jane O’Donnell as its new chief executive. Jane replaces current chief executive Sally Loudon who leaves COSLA in June after seven years in the job.

Demolition work is set to begin soon at the Fullarton high flats in Irvine.

The Affordable Housing Supply Programme has reached a milestone for 2022/23 with the delivery of more than 500 affordable homes across Highland.

The Scottish Government has published an analysis of responses to its consultation on the definition of 'Gypsies and Travellers' for the specific purpose of planning legislation relating to local development plan evidence reports. The Planning (Scotland) Act 2019 requires planning authorities to see

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