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Caledonia Housing Association has started work on a new Dundee housing development that will provide 30 new homes for social rent in the city. Developer GMC Ventures had already overseen the demolition of old industrial units at the site at Coldside Road, just off of Strathmartine Road. It is the fi

Hillhead Housing Association’s Welfare Rights Service have been granted £18,800 from Cash for Kids to support children of low income families of Hillhead & Caledonia Housing Associations in the Hillhead/Harestanes area of Kirkintilloch. Cash for Kids was chosen as a key partner of th

The former Playdrome site in Clydebank is set to be transformed into a housing development after a £5.675 million sale.

For the latest episode of the Scottish Housing News Podcast, Jennifer Higgins, the managing director of Connect Modular, part of the Wee House Group, and Andy Kennedy, the project manager for the £13 million Hillcrest development at Dundee’s Victoria Dock, join Jimmy Black and Kieran Fi

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured an Approval of Matters specified in Conditions (AMSC) planning consent from South Lanarkshire Council for the provision of 203 private new homes in Hamilton.

Scottish Borders Council’s new Council Plan, setting out key ambitions and priorities for the year ahead, will be considered by elected members at a meeting on Tuesday 22 February.

North Lanarkshire Council said a range of investments to support people and communities through Covid recovery and the cost-of-living challenge have been from and centre of the approval of its budget for the upcoming year. The council’s Recover NL programme has been boosted by nearly &pou

Stirling Council is to invest more than £18 million in housing across the region's communities over the coming financial year.

Councillors in Glasgow have agreed a budget that focuses on pandemic recovery, communities and supporting households most vulnerable to a cost-of-living crisis. Measures include a £25 million local infrastructure fund to tackle potholes, repairs and improvements; extra staff to carry out neigh

Plans to fill in a Fife quarry pond to make room for a mixed-use development comprising holiday lodges and a cafe/bistro have been rejected by councillors. DDR (UK) Limited had been seeking planning permission in principle at Prestonhill Quarry in Inverkeithing.

Councillors will be asked to approve a proposal to designate the City of Edinburgh Council area as a short term let (STL) control area at the local authority's planning committee next week.

Partick Housing Association and Hanover Scotland could be set for a major planning boost next week regarding their joint proposal to demolish a listed building and build new flats near the Forth and Clyde Canal at Anniesland.

One of the UK’s largest community-led nature restoration projects has taken a big step forwards, with its crowdfunder surging past £100,000 after a £20,000 donation from charity Rewilding Britain. The community of Langholm in Dumfries and Galloway is seeking to raise £2.2 mil

Householders in Inverness who meet the eligibility criteria for the Inverness Common Good Fund’s Winter Payment Scheme are to benefit from a one-off extension to the scheme and an increased payment. Members of the Highland Council’s City of Inverness Area Committee have agreed to extend

A new report published by the Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Homes (AIMCH) has concluded that using sustainably sourced timber panelised MMC methods to build new homes rather than masonry products can reduce the carbon impact of construction.