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By 2032, all Scottish RSL properties will need an EPC ‘B’ rating. As a nation, we’ll need to collectively retrofit hundreds of thousands of homes a year to reach this ambitious target. Key to this will be understanding your portfolio’s current baseline compared to EESSH2 and

Loreburn Housing Association is gearing up to mark its 40th anniversary this year. Since it was created, the Dumfries & Galloway community-based housing association has been at the forefront of providing innovative housing solutions for communities across south-west Scotland.

An app to help the owners of shared properties in Edinburgh repair their buildings has been so successful in its first year it is already being rolled out by two other local authorities in Scotland. Developed by the City of Edinburgh Council with tech company Novoville, a new app launched in April l

More housing may be needed on high streets in order for them to thrive, according to the new president of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce. Lori McGaffney, who runs Evalucia and Petit Pas in Perth city centre, made history by becoming the first female to take on the role at the 150-year-old organ

Land near the ferry slipway at Yoker can be used for residential development after Scottish Ministers agreed to the recommendations of a planning reporter.

The Highland Council has launched a new scheme which will buy up properties in the area to prevent second-home owners letting out their homes on Airbnb.

Hadrian Real Estate has secured a £1.8 million loan from Broadwood Capital to help deliver its latest residential development at Lenzie in Glasgow. The development concerns a converted and extended former primary school in the centre of Lenzie.

Groups and organisations across Stirling are being offered the chance to lead and develop projects that will improve their local community with the launch of a new fund. Stirling Council is offering more than £600,000 funding in 2022/23 through the Place Based Investment Programme (PBIP), whic

High-rise residents on Glasgow's southside are being helped to get on their bikes thanks to a set of new ground floor cycle stores.

Miller Homes is to deliver 109 new homes to Fife this year with the launch of its Leven Mill development in Glenrothes.

An environmental service which is keeping communities in Dumfries and Galloway safe, clean and tidy is celebrating its first anniversary. The Neighbourhood Environmental Teams (NETs) service, run by Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP), was launched in July last year.

Shona Robison, cabinet secretary for social justice, housing and local government, has visited Kingdom Housing Association’s development on the former Tullis Russell paper mill site in Glenrothes. The 85 affordable new homes, all for social rent, are part of a £14.6 million development w

Langstane Housing Association has launched its first electric pool car for employees to use, replacing the organisation’s current petrol vehicle.

River Clyde Homes, the Inverclyde based housing association, has been awarded the accolade of being fully compliant in Customer Services Excellence (CSE). After a rigorous three-day assessment River Clyde Homes is ‘fully compliant’ in all 57 elements of the CSE standard.

Finance minister Kate Forbes has joined her counterparts in Wales and Northern Ireland to call for further action to help households and businesses ahead of another increase in energy prices. In a joint letter to the new Chancellor of the Exchequer Nadhim Zahawi, Ministers say the focus should be on