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The Gannochy Trust’s Lifetime Neighbourhood in Perth, designed by Glasgow architecture firm Anderson Bell + Christie, has won the Most Innovative Affordable Housing Scheme category at the Housing Digital Innovation Awards.

An international artist with a huge social media following has created a striking new mural to promote breastfeeding in Inverclyde.

East Dunbartonshire Council has agreed a £20.82 million housing capital budget for 2022/23 at its Special Council Meeting last week.

There is just over one week left to submit comments on the Highland Council & the Cairngorm National Park Authority proposal to designate Ward 20: Badenoch & Strathspey as a Short-Term Let Control Area.

Fife Council has agreed a one-year rent increase of 2.5% for council houses from April 2022 – adding just £1.91 a week to the average rent cost. The same increase will apply to service charges, garages, lock-ups and temporary accommodation.

Whiteburn Projects' Caerlee Mill development in Innerleithen has been awarded the prestigious Placemaking Design Award in the 2022 Scottish Borders Design Awards. The awards ceremony was held in the Borders Distillery in Hawick on February 23.

A reclaiming motion by Stewart Milne Group against a decision that its former employee was entitled to bonus payments after he was made redundant has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.

Construction workers at a Glasgow housing development had an unusual shock when they dug up bones, a skull and wooden coffins last week. The grim discovery of the human remains occurred at the site in Orr Street, Calton, on Tuesday morning.

Knight Property Group has lodged plans to convert an empty Aberdeen office building into affordable homes after failing to rent or sell the building. The firm wants to deliver 26 one-bedroom affordable apartments on the upper floors of the four-storey City Point building on Chapel Str

Build to Rent (BTR) housing provider Sigma Capital has reached a significant milestone with its first development in Scotland underway under its private rental brand Simple Life.

The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) has published a large-scale international evidence review of rent control, incorporating both economics and wider social sciences literature from 2000 to 2020.

A lack of clear government strategies and insufficient financial incentives are undermining progress on decarbonisation in the residential sector, the Chartered Institute of Housing’s (CIH) upcoming 2022 UK Housing Review has revealed. The UK has the oldest housing stock in Europe. One in five

Community projects by Southside Housing Association and Queens Cross Housing Association are among nine initiatives in Glasgow to have been awarded almost £3.7 million through the Scottish Government's Place Fund after Glasgow City Council approved the funding allocations yesterday. The Place

Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH), the three-year project to support the sector to tackle the UK housing crisis, has developed new housing blueprints for developers, housing associations and SMEs to bring affordable homes to market quickly and cost effectivel

The Campaign for Freedom of Information in Scotland (CFoIS) is next week hosting the next meeting of the Scottish Public Information Forum (SPIF) that will focus on strengthening access to information rights. CFoIS has published a draft Bill to amend the Freedom of Information (Scotland) Act 20