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Plans for a new £4 million visitor centre and 10 new homes at Dunnottar Castle have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Dunecht Estates, which owns the castle near Stonehaven, is proposing to build a visitor centre with panoramic views of the castle.

Scottish Housing News reached a record audience last month with 131 new subscribers taking the service through the 9,000 mark to a total of 9,045. Followers to our Linkedin page reached 6,170 with 136 new readers and 76 new Twitter followers took the total to 14,110.

Wheatley communities are looking their best thanks to a pioneering partnership with environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful. Wheatley Group teamed up with Keep Scotland Beautiful in 2017 to help improve neighbourhoods.

Councillor Jane Meagher from the City of Edinburgh Council has officially broken ground at Scotland’s largest net-zero housing development in Granton. The start of construction works at the £72m ‘Western Villages’ project represents a significant milestone for the City of Edi

Aberdeen Cyrenians is appealing for pledgers as the first round of this year’s Big Give Christmas match funding appeal kicks off. Last year’s match giving campaigns raised more than £35,000 thanks to generous pledges and donations from local people and businesses alike.

Mears Group, in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council, is working to improve the energy efficiency of social housing across Huntly, Inverurie, Kemnay and Turriff, and has installed more than 500 solar panels on homes across these areas. The installation of the panels, which are called photovoltaic

Aberdeen City Council is asking its citizens to nominate an exceptional council employee or council team that they think are worthy of being crowned People’s Champion 2022. The Star Awards are the council’s annual staff recognition awards, which includes the People’s Champion and i

Scottish Borders Council has submitted three bids as part of the latest round of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund. Local authorities can submit bids related to each MP’s constituency covering the area and also a single authority transport bid. Scottish Borders Council has submitted

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed that construction of new homes at its new Letham Meadows development near Haddington has now started.

Almost half (47%) of UK adults s are not confident in their ability to pay energy bills throughout 2022 without falling into debt or arrears, according to a new survey commissioned by ZIPZERO. ZIPZERO is an app-based platform that funnels digital marketing expenditure from brands and retailers towar

Age Scotland is calling for urgent action to tackle the social care crisis after figures published today found that the number of older people being kept in hospital because of lack of community care remains unacceptably high. New figures from Public Health Scotland showed that the number of people

David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Developments, is seeking sub-contractors from across Fife to help deliver a new 342-home development in Craigtoun, St Andrews. Work will soon commence at the David Wilson Homes site, which sits close to Younger Gardens in the south-east of the Fife town. The new c

Alan Somerville, senior development officer of Cunninghame Housing Association, has presented a cheque for £1,000 to Eastriggs Community Group committee members Rob Holiday, Eck Graham and Kevin Clark. The Eastriggs Community Group is a voluntary organisation who formed to fund raise and

Kier Construction has been appointed by hub South West Scotland, on behalf of North Lanarkshire Council, to deliver the new St Kevin's Community Hub, incorporating St Kevin's Primary School and community facilities. The learning, teaching and community campus will be situated close to its existing l

A scheme to encourage people to ride bikes more was officially launched yesterday with a Scottish Government ministerial visit from Patrick Harvey.