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Andrew Saunders is to retire from Ore Valley Housing Association at the end of June this year, after more than 23 years of service to the organisation. During the period of his tenure, the organisation has more than doubled the number of social housing homes it owns and manages and has also develope

Work is due to begin to demolish four Glasgow tower blocks after a majority of tenants backed ambitious proposals for the regeneration of the Wyndford estate. Wheatley Homes Glasgow announced plans last year to invest £73 million in building 300 new homes in the area and carrying out other maj

A housing developer that challenged the rejection of planning permission for around a hundred houses to the north of Kilmacolm, Renfrewshire, has lost its appeal to the Inner House of the Court of Session.

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has been appointed to provide quantity surveying services to the first Enerphit standard pilot project in the north of Scotland.

Illegal meter-tampering is putting people’s lives at risk as they resort to increasingly desperate measures to reduce spiralling energy bills, two leading electrical and plumbing trade bodies have warned. Campaigning electrical association SELECT and the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing

The first families have been handed the keys to their new homes at a social housing development in Linlithgow. Cala Homes (East) has handed over 14 new affordable homes at its Queenswood development to the north east of the town to Wheatley Homes East.

Housebuilders have highlighted a "worrying" drop in the number of new homes being started in Scotland as the accumulated shortfall of homes of all tenures built since 2007 has grown to over 110,000.

The chief executive of North Ayrshire Council Craig Hatton will write to the First Minister and the Depute First Minister to express the council’s "extreme disappointment" with the budget settlement for local government. A motion passed at a special meeting of North Ayrshire Council asks the c

Glasgow City Council's Affordable Warmth Programme is continuing to make homes in the city more energy-efficient.

A draft Local Housing Strategy (LHS) 2023-28 was considered by Glasgow City Council yesterday ahead of a formal consultation period.

Children living in Wheatley homes throughout Scotland are being encouraged to tap into their creative side. Wheatley Foundation has partnered with Curiosity Collective to support children in communities with “Wonderboxes” – an activity and learning pack full of fun, inspiring activ

Plans to transform Hamiltonhill have reached a major milestone after funding was secured to create five new parks and open spaces.

River Clyde Homes (RCH) has secured a £38 million loan facility from Nationwide Building Society to support its plans for a regeneration programme to futureproof its properties and make them more sustainable and energy efficient. The Nationwide Building Society funding package is made up of &p

Comprehensive Design Architects (CDA) has received planning consent to build 48 new flats on the former site of an Edinburgh pub. A “crescent-style” apartment block will be delivered on an empty lot on the corner of Northfield Drive and Willowbrae Road.

Rents for new tenancies rose an unprecedented 11.9% in Scotland’s Private Rented Sector (PRS), the highest annual rise on record, in the first quarter of the existence of new legislation to cap rents for existing tenancies, according to lettings portal Citylets.