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The Highland Council is seeking clarification from the Scottish Government on the proposals for licensing of short term lets. Councillors are to discuss the local authority’s response to the Scottish Government’s Short Term Lets consultation on draft Licensing Order and Busines

The Scottish, Welsh and Northern Irish governments have written a joint letter to the UK Government calling for a reversal of plans to cut the £20 uplift to Universal Credit. The £20 increase to the benefit was introduced during the coronavirus pandemic, but is due to end on October 6.

A planning application for flats and commercial units at the site of a former police station which was rejected by Glasgow City Council could now be decided by the Scottish Government.

Arc-Tech MU has commenced works at the multi-million-pound Water Row Regeneration in Govan. The £17 million project comprises 92 affordable homes and six commercial premises located near Govan Cross in the Southside of Glasgow. The development forms part of a wider masterplan that is set to tr

The UK Government has today allocated funding worth £8.6 billion for its Affordable Homes Programme which will deliver around 119,000 homes, including 57,000 for ownership, 29,600 for social rent and 6,250 affordable rural homes.

The Scottish Refugee Council has started an Afghan Support Network to coordinate all of its members' generous offers of support for Afghan refugees. The council has offered thanks to everyone who has taken the time to contact it with kind offers of practical support for people fleeing the Taliban. I

The Scottish Government has spent less than half of its £25 million budget to help build rural affordable homes in five years.

The JR Group has been awarded a contract for the construction of 31 high-specification flats in Ayr on behalf of Ayrshire Housing.

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has written to the Scottish Parliament's local government, housing and planning committee after the committee asked its stakeholders to provide information on their work and priorities over the summer. In its response, the Regulator provided detail on the fi

Clydebank Housing Association helped contribute to a recent virtual event on the changes to the Scottish Tolerable Standard, gaining clarification and examining implementation. Introduced in 2019 as a direct result of recent fire tragedies, the new Tolerable Standard details requirements f

Tenants from across Fife and beyond met up online on Saturday for the Kingdom Group’s hugely popular Summer Gathering event, held entirely online for the second year in a row.

Members of the Scottish Green Party have approved the party’s cooperation agreement with the SNP that clears the way for co-leaders Patrick Harvie and Lorna Slater to become Scotland's first Green ministers. Around 83% of members who took part in an extraordinary general meeting on Saturday vo

Rough sleepers and other vulnerable people in Cornwall are to be housed in “sheds” due to a housing shortage fuelled by the growing number of second homes and holiday lets in the area. Cornwall residents have voiced concerns that the move risks the area being blighted by “homegrown

The Citizens Advice network unlocked almost £147 million for people during the pandemic, new statistics have revealed. Despite the huge challenges presented by lockdown, with face to face advice restricted for large periods of the 2020/21 year, the network unlocked £146.9m for people thr

A residential transformation is being proposed at a former private hospital in Dundee. Plans submitted by Patience and Highmore Architects will see the C-listed Fernbrae Hospital and its grounds redeveloped, including demolition of the less architecturally significant l