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Barratt Developments has announced plans to open 14 new sites creating 2,316 new homes across Scotland during the course of 2022. As part of its new build programme, Barratt will also continue to increase its investment in land after successfully acquiring and securing planning permission for new de

The Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) has a key strategic part to play in helping to deliver Scotland’s low carbon heating systems. A new insight paper called ‘Scotland’s transition to net zero heat’ released today sets out the bank’s role in tackling the issue a

The Data Lab, Scotland’s innovation centre for data and AI, is providing funding to a Dundee-based thermal imaging company IRT to allow them to develop and use AI to reduce heat loss in homes and support Scotland's net-zero strategy.

The final shortlist for the Scottish Design Awards 2022 has been unveiled following a hectic 48-hour judging programme. The following entries were shortlisted in the Affordable Housing category:

The third development launched to market by Webster Homes will be its most sustainable to date, the Kinross-based housebuilder has revealed.

A 12-week public consultation has been launched today on Phase 2 of the Scottish Government’s permitted development rights (PDR) review.

Kingdom Housing Association’s award-winning regeneration of Fraser Avenue in Inverkeithing has reached a key milestone with the completion of the second phase of the development. Winning the Affordable Large Housing Development of the Year Award at the Scottish Home Awards 2020, Phase 1 of the

New legislation announced in the Queen’s Speech yesterday will improve the lives of millions of renters by driving up standards in the private and socially rented sectors across England, according to the housing secretary at Westminster.

A group of volunteers from Bield Housing are being assembled to shape the housing provider's future equality framework and policy.

The supply of new homes delivered in Scotland fell by a third in one year to reach the lowest total in eight years as the Covid-19 pandemic took its toll on the housebuilding sector, official figures have found.

Plans to remove all income thresholds from Best Start Foods by 2023-24 have been announced by the Scottish Government as part of the second Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, ‘Best Start, Bright Futures’. This will increase eligibility to all people in receipt of a qualifying benefit.

Dundee MSPs Joe FitzPatrick and Shona Robison have visited the South Ward Road building of Hillcrest Homes to discuss plans for the new relocation of vital services previously provided in the Cairn Centre.

Glasgow residents are being warned to beware of scammers trying to take advantage of people worried about the rising cost of living.

Around 220,000 older households in Scotland will have insufficient income to cover their essential spending this year, according to the latest analysis by Age Scotland’s sister charity Age UK. With 150,000 pensioners already living in relative poverty in Scotland, the charities estimate that t

Some of Scotland’s longest standing vacant and derelict sites will be transformed into affordable housing, community gardens and places of enterprise and learning by awards from a £50 million programme. Ten schemes will share more than £5m from the low carbon Vacant and Derelict La