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The cost of identifying and removing dangerous cladding from homes across Scotland is expected to reach £1 billion, it has emerged.

The new masterplans for the Govan Graving Docks located on the River Clyde have been unveiled. The mixed-use proposals would see the derelict site transformed into a neighbourhood with new residential housing and a hub for community projects.

Adam Scotland and Hirst landscape architects have appointed NVDC Architects to design 30 new apartments for a site located at 97 Cleveden Road in Kelvindale. By replacing the Rannoch House Care Home with a modern apartment block, the project will bring forward the building line to reinforce an urban

Comprehensive Design Architects has submitted revised plans to build 48 new flats on the former site of an Edinburgh pub after its initial proposals were rejected due to worries of overdevelopment. A “crescent-style” apartment block has been planned for the empty lot on the corner of Nor

The Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has completed its development in Barvas, and handed over the keys for eight new homes at the Gleann Mor site.

River Clyde Homes has been awarded funding of over £450,000 for Aids and Adaptions for 2022/23 from the Scottish Government to provide equipment to help customers live more independent lives. The Inverclyde-based housing association said it is committed to supporting more customers a

Tenants of Charing Cross Housing Association tenants have backed the proposed transfer to West of Scotland Housing Association with 96.1% voting 'Yes' to the proposal.

The annual SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were launched for 2022 yesterday by the Scottish Government at a special event in the Britannia Panopticon, the world’s oldest surviving music hall, in Glasgow to celebrate the ‘Year of Stories’. The event, attended

The John Lewis Partnership has announced the first three locations where it proposes to build new rental homes. The homes would form part of the UK’s growing build-to-rent property market as the Partnership seeks to raise standards in rental property, both through its role as a developer and a

Views are being sought on a range of proposals to improve walking, wheeling and cycling conditions, as well as public transport links, parks and public spaces, around new and future residential developments across the city. Plans have been developed for four neighbourhoods identified as significant

The UK Government's plan to extend the Right to Buy (RTB) their home to all housing association tenants in England is a "retrograde step" that could erode the supply of affordable housing, it has been warned.

When Places for People completed its development at The Green, three miles south of Edinburgh at Longstone, the company sought to find a positive way to repurpose a large marketing suite in the form of a portacabin. Recently, it launched a campaign calling on Scottish charities, community groups and

Construction work on Edinburgh’s first ‘net zero’ housing development is underway in the north west of the city. Led by the City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with Glasgow-based contractor CCG (Scotland) Ltd, the 75 home ‘Granton D1’ affordable housing pilot is pa

The Scottish Land Fund has awarded the Langholm Initiative charity £1 million in a “major game-changer” for South Scotland’s biggest ever community buyout. The town of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway aims to raise £2.2m by July to purchase 5,300 acres of Langholm Moor

Communities across Britain that were impacted by Storm Arwen will receive an additional £10.3 million in compensation from power companies after a report found it was “unacceptable” thousands of homes were left to cope in "appalling conditions" for over a week.