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Marchmont family business At Home In Edinburgh has beaten off competition from across the country to be named finalists in the prestigious annual housing industry awards, the Scottish Home Awards. The independent awards programme celebrates success in the Scottish housing and house-building sector,

Green Home Systems has been appointed to deliver energy saving measures to households across North Ayrshire Council as part of a national fuel poverty scheme. The appointment will bring Green Home Systems into partnership with North Ayrshire Council to deliver energy efficiency measures to residents

Kevin Gray, chief executive of Veterans Housing Scotland (VHS), has become a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management. The Fellowship award is aimed at highly experienced leaders and managers who wish to share their knowledge to support the community.

A care home has been fined £20,000 for health and safety failings which led to the death of a vulnerable 90-year-old man.

Cala Homes (West), together with Celeros FT, has reached a significant milestone for its proposed housing development in Cathcart with the submission of a formal planning application that sets out the vision, design, and aesthetic of the site.

Staff and board members of Melville Housing Association have paid tributes to its first-ever share-holding member and pillar of the Midlothian community Mabel Ferguson, who has passed away. Mabel, who lived in the town of Gorebridge, had been a Melville tenant throughout the organisation’s ent

Proposals have been unveiled to revive plans for 247 new houses in Laurencekirk.

Local charity Cfine has distributed the equivalent of 120,000 meals to 68 community food members across the city as well as providing 300 free memberships for community pantries through the cost of living funding, members of Aberdeen City Council’s Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee heard t

Activity in Scotland’s housing market slowed through April according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey, however prices are still rising.

East Lothian Council's leader has written to Scotland’s deputy first minister and cabinet secretary for finance highlighting the "perfect and escalating financial storm" facing the local authority. Councillor Norman Hampshire has requested an urgent cross-party meeting with Shona Robison MSP t

Vita Group has published plans to create purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) and social housing in New Waverley North in Edinburgh.

The management committee at Wellhouse Housing Association has revealed that Martin Wilkie-McFarlane is to remain in post as director. His decision to stand down was initially announced in Scottish Housing News on 16 February.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has reached an agreement with South Lanarkshire Council to build 50 new affordable homes at its Oakwood Grove development in Hamilton. The development forms part of the wider masterplan for the Brackenhill Farm area, which is also recognised as part of the Hamilton Commun

One of North Ayrshire’s largest council house developments in recent years has been officially opened.

In an effort to boost the support it provides to its tenants, Theune Housing has tripled its number of energy advisors. The Association said the move “couldn’t have come at a better time” with sky high bills still putting pressure on household budgets.