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Two community groups in the Scottish Highlands have together received over £23,000 from the UK’s first community carbon share, as part of Britain’s biggest rewilding project.

Midsteeple Quarter, the community-owned enterprise shaping a new future for Dumfries town centre, has awarded the contract for construction work on its first phase of major redevelopment. RH Irving Construction has been selected to transform the disused former Baker’s Oven site at 135-139 High

Glasgow City Council has given the green light to plans for 48 new homes on the site of a former primary school. Cruden Homes (West) will deliver a mixture of two and three-bedroom semi-detached and terraced houses on land at Katewell Avenue, where Cleddans Primary School used to stand.

Strategic landowner Lands Improvement, owned by Telereal Trillium, has concluded the sale of residential development land to Bellway Homes Scotland Limited, with Savills Development Team representing the vendor.

Caledonia Housing Association is now responsible for all of the homes and services provided by Faifley Housing Association following confirmation from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA).

Scottish Labour has published its manifesto for the upcoming Local Government elections with a pledge to make housing a national priority. According to the party, affordable housing “helps tackle poverty, improves health and wellbeing, and provides the stability and security people need for a

A couple who moved out of their rented property early by mutual agreement have successfully challenged a finding that they were due to pay £383 of rent arrears to his former landlord.

The final planning hurdle has been cleared for the development of the former Strathmartine Hospital on the outskirts of Dundee.

The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) is carrying out a new study for the Scottish Government as part of a review of Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA).

Plans to create a residential-led development that will transform a 15.5-acre factory site in Edinburgh with new homes, community amenities and access to a new transport hub have moved forward with the acquisition of the plot of land.

A bid to transform more than 40 residential flats in Finnieston into short-term holiday lets has been rejected by Glasgow City Council’s planning committee.

Building work has started on the development of 150 new homes in Aberdeen.

Nearly half of Scots have struggled to pay their housing costs, a survey carried out for Shelter Scotland has found. Overall, 48% of people surveyed said that they had, at some point, struggled to meet their housing payments. However, 57% of people with children in their household said they had expe

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has published updated statistical information on the Scottish Social Housing Charter to reflect a change in guidance from the Scottish Government. The government updated its guidance on the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (the Standard) in January 2021 rep

C~urb Property Maintenance, a division of Link’s latest partner, C~urb, has achieved its first new accreditation since launching on 4 April 2022. ISO 45001 is an international standard for health and safety at work developed by national and international standards committees independent of gov