News

Routine indoor visiting of care home residents by relatives, friends and carers will be able to resume in Scotland from early March with care providers supporting residents to have up to two designated visitors each and one visit a week for each visitor. With a wide range of protections now in place

Growing awareness of environmental issues will encourage builders and developers to make new homes ever greener in the coming years and decades. Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, identifies four main areas by which tomorrow’s homes will reduce their envi

Work has started on the first new homes to be built at the development in East Lothian with more good news to come later this year, according to developer Hargreaves Land. Blindwells, which is located less than 10 miles east of Edinburgh, has outline planning permission for 1,600 homes. Hargrea

The Scottish Government has withdrawn its planned legislation on short-term lets from the Scottish Parliament to allow for draft guidance to be developed.

Alastair MacNish is to stand down as chair of Wheatley Group later this year. Mr MacNish, who joined the board of the housing, care and property management group in 2012 and has been chair since 2015, will step down at Wheatley’s AGM in September. H

The City of Edinburgh Council has set a balanced £1 billion-plus budget for the next financial year with Council Tax and rents for council house tenants frozen at 2020/21 levels. 

Two housing associations have revealed they are in discussions over plans that could create the UK’s largest residential landlord. Sanctuary Group, which manages 100,000-home across the UK, announced to the stock market yesterday that its board has agreed to enter into due diligence

Hart Builders is to work with Midlothian Council to deliver 265 new homes in the region in support of the council’s Local Housing Strategy. A total of 49 of the new homes have already been completed and handed over to the local authority, despite the closure of construction sites for a si

Hillcrest is among a trio of social housing organisations to sign up to support the development of HACT’s social value roadmap. The Association joins alongside CHP and Yorkshire Housing.

A neighbour in a kilt joined Dunedin Canmore staff in clearing away snow to make sure a tenant in Dunfermline could get her Covid jab. Dunedin Canmore’s environmental team were busy clearing a path in Bleachfield Court last Friday for a woman who was worried she wouldn’t be able to leave

Planning permission has been granted for a hotel, offices and 350 homes at the former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) site on Edinburgh's Dundas Street.

The outcomes of the prestigious 2020 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were announced last night at a virtual celebratory presentation event streamed live via Vimeo. Having postponed the annual sit down dinner in the Grand Central Hotel in December, SURF delivered a virtual Awa

Plans to convert the former Mariner Hotel in Aberdeen into housing have been pushed forward by councillors.

Plans to fill a Tollcross gap site with flats and ground floor commercial units have been drawn up and submitted to Glasgow City Council. Permission is being sought for a four-storey building at 1042 Tollcross Road.

West Dunbartonshire Council has agreed to write off irrecoverable debts owed to the council after "exhausting all avenues" for collection. The money includes uncollectable miscellaneous debt of £83,000 dating back to 2017, of which more than £15,000 is due by residents who died with