News

Glasgow City Council has accepted the award of £6.437million in funding for 2022/23 from the Scottish Government to deliver energy-efficient improvements in homes in Glasgow. The funding comes from the Energy Efficient Scotland Area Based Schemes (ABS) programme, which takes an area-based appr

The strategic development framework for North Glasgow is to be submitted to the Scottish Government for adoption in the Glasgow City Development Plan. The North Glasgow SDF is is one of six such initiatives which guide future planning in the city.

A house in Wester Ross designed by Skye-based Dualchas Architects has won the coveted award for the Best New Building at the 2022 Highlands and Islands Architecture Awards. A stone ruin of an old croft house in the township of Diabeg was taken down and rebuilt alongside a new larch-clad mirror image

Residents, businesses and visitors are invited to have their say in shaping the Fife of the future by giving their views on the next Local Development Plan.

Glasgow City Mission has renewed its commitment to tackling rough sleeping, building on the experience and expertise of running a winter project for the last 12 years, and is again the mission's aim to make sure no one needs to sleep outside this winter. Each year the organisation has looked at this

Members of the Highland Council’s City of Inverness Area Committee have agreed to increase the Winter Discretionary Payments Scheme for eligible people in the Inverness area for 2022/23. Available funds within the Inverness Common Good Fund have been used to help people most at need to heat th

Twenty-nine housing associations have disclosed their environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance for the last financial year to £8bn mutual lender The Housing Finance Corporation (THFC). The publication of THFC’s ‘Funding Housing, Making Impact 2022’ report marks

Many private landlords lack the knowledge, skills and support needed to provide decent homes for renters, a new study has found. The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) study, by Dr Jennifer Harris and Professor Alex Marsh at the University of Bristol, covered the whole of the UK an

Over 450 new energy efficient homes for mid-market rent across Scotland have been delivered thanks to a new social impact investment scheme by PfP Capital. The New Avenue Living Fund helps deliver high quality mid-market rental homes within close commuting distance of major Scottish city centres. Th

People in debt are facing the prospect of being “trapped” by an escalating cost of living crisis, a new report from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has found. The report looks at the experiences of almost 3,000 complex debt clients receiving help from the CAB network. A complex debt is wh

Finalised proposals for long-term planning reform are being tabled in the Scottish Parliament later today. The revised National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) will set out policies against which planning applications will be assessed for the next decade.

The Cost of Living (Tenant Protection) (Scotland) Act gives Ministers temporary powers to cap rent increases for private and social tenants, as well as for student accommodation, until at least 31 March 2023, effectively freezing rents for most tenants during this period. The legislation also preven

Scotland’s Housing Network and the Tenants Information Service (TIS) have undertaken a consultation with social housing tenants across Scotland. This consisted of a survey and a series of focus groups in order to better understand tenant’s views and attitudes towards social housing and t

Cunninghame Housing Association's group chief executive, Frank Sweeney, has received a industry leadership award from the Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH).  The CIH Scotland Housing Awards 2022 took place on 27th October and the award for Excellence In Leadership was then presented to

Plans have been submitted with Aberdeen City Council to build 30 affordable homes. The planned development would made up of 100% affordable housing and be built on the site of the former Braeside Primary School in Aberdeen’s west end.