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New proposals have been unveiled for the delivery of a mixed-use development including affordable housing at the former Madras College campus in St Andrews.

Scaled-back proposals to deliver new homes at the Corunna Bowling Club site in Glasgow have been turned down by city planners despite a big reduction in the number of flats.

Women experiencing domestic abuse will be able to access a new support service to help them find suitable and safe housing in a different area. The ‘Revive Scotland’ service is a partnership between Wheatley Group and Homefinder UK. The property-management group has teamed up with Homefi

Tackling homelessness has seen significant successes in the second year of South Lanarkshire Council’s Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan. A report has highlighted excellent progress in both preventing homelessness and improving outcomes for homeless households, despite the challenges raised by C

More than 140 councils across England have been awarded a share of over £13 million to help find longer-term accommodation for prison leavers. The announcement comes a week after a UK Government-backed scheme was launched to provide temporary, basic accommodation to prison leavers as part

Tenants due to move into Scotland’s largest social modular housing development in South Ayrshire have been given a tour of the development factory thanks to Riverside Scotland. The project is being delivered by Riverside Scotland and Connect Modular, a division of The Wee House Company in

A community-led housing project which will bring 15 new affordable homes to the Aberdeenshire village has secured grant funding from the National Lottery Awards for All programme to provide the specialist support needed to progress the project.

A young generation of green-fingered gardeners have joined forces with Bield to celebrate its golden anniversary. Customers at Campsie Gardens in Cumbernauld have teamed up with 125 pupils and teachers from neighbouring St Mary’s Primary School for a garden project to celebrate Bield&rsqu

Scottish building services and construction contractor McGill has announced that it will now accept cryptocurrency as payment for services delivered. The company has partnered with payment gateway provider CoinGate to accept payment in over 50 different crypto coins including Bitcoin,

A social housing development delivered by building and construction firm The JR Group has been shortlisted for a prestigious housing award. Phil McGinlay, Swan Group’s managing director; Hazel Robertson, development manager, Link Group; Craig Whyte, JR Group commercial

Luxury homebuilder Bancon Homes has been shortlisted as a finalist for three awards in the highly regarded Scottish Home Awards 2021, the winners of which will be announced in September. The nominations are for its Lochside of Leys development in Banchory where it is a finalist in the House of

Katy Wedderburn, head of MacRoberts LLP's employment team, discusses the UK Government's proposal to introduce a mandatory duty on employers to prevent sexual harassment. The UK has had legislation making sexual harassment unlawful towards employees, workers carrying out work personally and job appl

The new Child Disability Payment has opened for applications from people living in three pilot areas. Families of children with a disability or long-term health condition living in Dundee City, Perth and Kinross and Western Isles council areas who need financial support should apply to the new syste

The Scottish Green Energy Awards opened yesterday with nominations invited for 11 categories across all renewable technologies. This year’s event will return as an in-person awards ceremony which will comply with the latest government guidelines to ensure the health and safety of guests.

Leading figures at Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) have said they were sorry to hear on Saturday of the passing away of their former chairman, Norman M Macleod. Norman retired as chair in September 2020 but just a few weeks ago he was invited to the opening of the first phase of the new hom