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Scottish Water’s first online overflow map, showing near real-time data from waste water overflows across the country, has been launched and is now live and available for public use.

Hamilton-based firm Procast Group has started work transforming homes across East Renfrewshire as a part of a £725,000 project.

Members of Living Rent, Scotland’s tenants’ union, are demanding that the City of Edinburgh Council commit to spending more money of the tourist tax revenue on social housing. The levy, introduced in legislation by the Scottish Government giving the councils to charge visitors for overni

North Ayrshire Council has highlighted the impact of its work to provide new affordable homes after its cabinet approved its new five-year Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) for 2025-2030. The council and its Registered Social Landlord partners are delivering new homes throughout the area. Cou

Cala Homes (West) has submitted a planning application to Renfrewshire Council to create a new residential development at Burnfoot Road, Lochwinnoch.

Mac Mic Group and Persimmon Homes East Scotland have completed a land sale agreement for a site in Dennyloanhead, Falkirk. This significant milestone marks the next step in delivering new sustainable homes and local infrastructural improvements to the area.

Higher costs from new levies will add around £40 million in annual costs to Persimmon and add “billions” in expenses across the housebuilding sector, chief executive Dean Finch has warned. He claimed that the taxes would hurt the government’s ambitious target of building 1.5m

Sidey has been awarded a significant contract with North Lanarkshire Council for the design, manufacture, supply, and installation of replacement windows, doors, and screens across council-owned domestic properties. This transformative refurbishment programme, set to be delivered over the next two t

Highlight Housing, the new specialist affordable housing consultancy and managing agent that launched last month, has chosen Alexander Sloan - Accountants and Business Advisors as its representatives.

A petition to rename a bridge in Glasgow in memory of Mary Barbour has been submitted to the local authority. Govan Community Council has submitted paperwork to Glasgow City Council to request the Wellbeing, Equalities, Community, Culture and Engagement City Policy Committee consider the request for

Representatives of the Stornoway Trust, Muaitheabhal Community Wind Farm Trust and Comhairle nan Eilean Siar met on Friday 6th December to begin work to explore how offers of up to 20% community ownership in both the Stornoway Wind Farm and the Uisenis Wind Farm can best be brought into community o

The Scottish Government has awarded £400,000 to Citizens Advice Scotland to improve access to help for people struggling with Council Tax debt.

Highlands mid-market rent (MMR) homes developer HHA has strengthened its partnership with Tulloch Homes in a deal that will create 31 new rental opportunities in Inverness and Conon Bridge. At The Maples, located to the south of the Inverness city centre, Tulloch Homes is underway with the construct

The Highland Council has extended its deadline for council housing tenants to respond to a rent levels review until Monday 23 December.  Every year Highland Council invites all tenants to have their say on the rent levels for the following year. 

Two community councils in the south of Aberdeenshire are the first to submit Local Place Plans which gather ideas, highlight issues and express their communities’ aspirations for the future of their place.