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Dundee’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) which outlines the city’s affordable housing priorities over the next five years will be put to councillors for consideration next week. The Scottish Government’s Affordable Housing Investment Programme has contributed over £8

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has showcased great examples of working in partnership with other organisations during the Covid-19 pandemic with the aim of improving the health and wellbeing of their tenants and the wider community. In 2020/21 BHA’s Financial Inclusion team received a

East Lothian Council leader Norman Hampshire outlines the local authority's reaction to the 4th draft National Planning Framework (NPF4). The draft NPF4 provides a spatial strategy and core planning policies to guide where development and infrastructure should go.

Plans for two residential blocks of 34 flats near a Glasgow canal have gained planning permission.

Plans to convert former Stonehaven council offices into flats have been given the go-ahead.

To mark Scottish Careers Week, one MSP is flying the flag for careers in the built environment after visiting one of Scotland’s largest mixed-use developments. Martin Whitfield MSP, a former primary school teacher and Labour Member of the Scottish Parliament for South Scotland, visited Blindwe

The Gannochy Trust’s lifetime neighbourhood in Perth, designed by Glasgow architecture firm Anderson Bell + Christie, has won the Best Healthy Homes Development (rural and suburban) and Best Affordable Housing Development at this year’s Inside Housing Development Awards.

The Highland Council has received funding to provide financial help for tenants in social housing and the private sector at risk of becoming homeless after falling behind with rent payments during the pandemic. The Tenant Grant Fund is in addition to services already available for those struggling w

East Dunbartonshire Council is seeking views on updates to guidance related to the East Dunbartonshire Local Development Plan (LDP). The LDP sets out policies and a framework to guide the determination of all planning applications received by the council.

Guild Homes has submitted plans to Angus Council to double its housing development in West Turfbeg. The developer has pressed the council for a quick decision on the bid, urging that the homes are needed to prevent a new shortage of housing in the town.

The Scottish Government's sporting agency has objected to plans to build new homes on a Kilmarnock football pitch. Sportscotland has voiced concerns over proposals to construct 58 new houses on the Moorfield estate with part of the planned site wiping out a full-size football pitch.

Multi-utilities provider Arc-Tech MU has commenced works at a private housing development in Glasgow.

Councillors in Dundee are being asked to approve more than £4 million of repair work after a review of working practices on roofs installed and inspected by council staff over four years found more than 400 did not meet best practices as set out in the British Standards.

For today's COP26SHN instalment Eildon shares the first-hand experience of tenants after a year and a half of living in its ground-breaking Passivhaus development at St Boswells.

Average rents for two-bedroom properties have increased above inflation in ten out of 18 areas in Scotland compared with 2020, according to official figures from the Scottish Government.