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Tenants have been moving into new housing built by Renfrewshire Council as part of the ongoing community-led regeneration of Paisley’s Ferguslie Park area. The 101 modern new-build energy-efficient homes are being built on the site of the former St Fergus Primary School in Ferguslie.

Planning applications for 168 homes across two sites in Dunbar and Longniddry have been given the green light by East Lothian Council.

The four tower blocks in Maryhill which are the subject of a £73 million regeneration by Wheatley Group will be brought down by an explosion next year.

The City of Edinburgh Council has given the green light for a mixed-residential development on the site of a former Leith Walk tramway depot following a narrow vote by councillors.

Despite a fall in construction activity at the start of 2023, surveyors in Scotland are predicting sector growth for the first time in almost a year while another survey has highlighted a rebound in repair, maintenance, and improvement (RMI) work for construction SMEs.

New home registrations in Scotland in the first quarter of 2023 have fallen by 42% compared to the same period last year, new data released by the National House Building Council (NHBC) has revealed.

Glasgow City Council has approved plans for sixty houses and a nature conservation area to be created on land near Hogganfield Loch.

Scottish Borders Council has approved plans to build hundreds of new homes on a country estate in Lowood, near Melrose.

Scottish Borders Council has opened a consultation on the next five-year Local Housing Strategy, which provides direction for tackling housing issues across the Borders and informs investment into housing and related services.

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