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The Cruden Group will purchase electricity which always comes exclusively from renewable sources after it signed a three-year enhanced green energy supply contract with ScottishPower.

River Clyde Homes’ (RCH) new development at the former St Stephen’s High School site in Port Glasgow includes its first specially designed dementia-friendly homes. The 24 flats will be specially adapted to provide a dementia-friendly environment for customers who may be experiencing earl

A new Housing First Pilot Project has been launched in Dumfries. The Housing First concept offers permanent accommodation to the most vulnerable and complexly disadvantaged people as quickly as possible and provides ongoing support to help them recover from any needs they may have, such as mental he

The 100th tenant to receive keys to a brand-new house at South Lanarkshire Council's biggest housing development says it is her dream home.

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.