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New plans to deliver 49 apartments in Glasgow’s West End have failed to gain planning approval.

Aberdeenshire Council has approved plans for 32 homes at the new Banchory eco-village. The self-sufficient settlement will be built on farmland off Harestone Road to the rear of the Tesco store at the entrance to the town.

Work to build the world’s first 100% green hydrogen-to-homes demonstration network in Fife is now underway.

A multi-million-pound housing project backed by football legend Graeme Souness has been thrown into question after an archaeologist issued a stark warning about the destruction of historic buildings.

Plans have been submitted to modify a former Aberdeen homeless hostel into self-service apartments. The former Aberdeen Cyrenians base on Crown Street is in line for the transformation.

The Scottish Child Payment will be doubled to £20 per week per child from April 2022.

Private property owners will be encouraged to lease their properties to local authorities as part of new plans to end homelessness in Wales. Under the Private Rented Sector Leasing Scheme, the landlords will be offered a rent guarantee and additional funding to improve the condition of their pr

An international coalition of construction experts has published the world’s first universal standard for reporting carbon dioxide emissions used in the building and lifecycle of structures – also known as ‘embodied and operational carbon’ within the industry.

A symposium hosted by Edinburgh Napier Business School has submitted proposals to the Scottish Government on how small parcels of land in Scotland can become a key revenue source - while enabling Scotland to meet its ambitious carbon reduction targets. The five-point action plan is based on the curr

Scottish Housing News Podcast co-host Jimmy Black gives his take on today's new episode in which Professor Douglas Robertson tells SHN… if we can’t fix leaky roofs in private flats, how will we ever make them carbon neutral? Meantime, Cllr Anne Rendall reflects on £4.4 millio

Councillors have given their approval to a plan that could deliver more than 350 properties built in Orkney over the next five years.

Nearly 100 much-needed new homes have been built in Inverclyde by Sanctuary Group. The social housing provider has delivered 96 homes for social rent across four sites in Port Glasgow and Greenock.

Former chairman of Eildon Housing Association Bill Wilkie MBE officially opened the brand-new extra care development named after him, with a tree-planting ceremony last week. The impressive state-of-the-art development Wilkie Gardens provides 39 one and two-bedroom flats on what was the de

Riverside Scotland handed over the first homes at the nation’s largest affordable modular housing development with four homes being allocated to military veteran households. The ground-breaking £9.8 million project is being delivered by Riverside Scotland and Connect Modular, part of The

Link Group has earned the prestigious title of housing provider of the year following a win at the 2021 CIH Scotland Housing Awards.