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Significant investment to help communities prosper following the Covid-19 pandemic, increased social care funding to improve and expand services and funding to reduce the carbon footprint of Scottish Borders Council and help deliver savings has been approved in the council budget. Over £95 mil

A total of 774 low income and digitally excluded households across Scotland have been supported to get online by Link Group.

Residents in Aberdeenshire will see a 3% rise in their Council Tax for the new financial year 2022/23 as councillors seek to balance budgets in the face of growing demand on services and increases to costs. It means that a Band D property will be £1,339.83, a rise of £3.90 per month (if

The Scottish Government’s national fuel poverty scheme, Warmer Homes Scotland, has now reached a significant milestone with 25,000 homes across the country supported to heat their homes more affordably.

Despite facing the most challenging budget to date, Perth and Kinross councillors have agreed a below-inflation Council Tax rise and investment to support education, families, communities, economic wellbeing, the environment and infrastructure. Recognising the impact the pandemic and inflation has h

Proposals for new homes for rent alongside facilities for the wider community at New Mart Road in Chesser have been submitted to the City of Edinburgh Council.

Scottish homelessness charities have joined a host of third sector organisations across the country to declare their opposition to the UK Government’s Nationality and Borders Bill.

A decision into proposals to demolish a listed Art Deco building and build new flats near the Forth and Clyde Canal at Anniesland has been delayed to allow objectors to be heard.

Riverside has been named the top housing organisation in Britain for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender equality by LGBT rights charity Stonewall. The housing association, which owns and manages more than 75,000 properties across the UK, placed 12th in Stonewall’s 2022 Top 100 Employers Li

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) will have the final say on whether to approve an application to build flats in place of a former Aberdeen printworks. Aberdeen Capital Investments had its proposals for the former Scottaspress premises in Maberly Street initially thrown out by c

Council leaders in Edinburgh have reaffirmed their support to refugees fleeing their own countries despite confirming that more than 200 Afghan refugees in the city are still in temporary accommodation waiting for permanent housing.

Further contacts for new build council houses that will deliver more affordable homes for rent, new jobs and local investment have been approved by North Lanarkshire Council.

The UK Government has confirmed that it will repeal the 1824 law that criminalises rough sleeping and begging in England and Wales.

Stirling Council will purchase 12 new homes for social rent in St. Ninians to help meet demand for social housing in the area. The local authority has already purchased 34 houses from Ogilvie Homes at its residential development at Newpark Farm, St. Ninians, which are now occupied by council tenants

More than eight in ten adults in Scotland are concerned about the impact of energy bills on their household budgets.