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Plans to deliver around 92 apartments and six ground floor commercial units on the site of a Glasgow car park are the subject of an online consultation.

More than one in every ten private rented homes in England contains a serious threat to health and safety with associated costs to the NHS at £340 million per year, the National Audit Office (NAO) has estimated.

The outcomes of the prestigious 2021 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were announced last night at a celebratory presentation event in Glasgow’s Voco Grand Central Hotel. Representatives of the five category winning initiatives for 2021 were personally congratulated on t

Solar Energy Scotland (SES) has welcomed the call for the Scottish Parliament to back the country’s solar energy industry, in a motion put forward by Fergus Ewing MSP highlighting the need to scale up solar energy deployment to meet the country’s net zero targets. For years, the assumpti

Revised plans to convert the former Department for Work and Pensions building in Dundee into residential properties has been granted planning permission.

Drum Property Group has sold its build-to-rent development in Glasgow to Edmond de Rothschild Real Estate Investment Management’s (REIM).

A policy designed to support victims of domestic abuse living in Dundee City Council housing has scooped a prestigious national award. The Housing Domestic Abuse Policy picked up the Colin Mair Award for Policy Development at the recent Scottish Public Service Awards.

Eildon Housing has secured permission from Scottish Borders Council’s executive committee to build a new development of 57 high quality homes in Chirnside.

East Lothian Council’s planning committee has granted permission for the final new homes at Hallhill in Dunbar and a further 100 homes as part of the wider development at Windygoul South, Tranent. The final phase of the wider development at Hallhill, will see 197 houses and 48 flats delivered

A planning application has been submitted for an expansion of the Aberdeen village of Peterculter first unveiled almost two years ago. The development boundary (Image by Halliday Fraser Munro)

Langstane Housing Association employees have nominated Kacey Seivwright’s fundraiser as their chosen charity to receive a Christmas donation in lieu of sending traditional cards.

South Lanarkshire Council's Housing Service has pledged to significantly reduce homelessness over the next five years. That was the headline commitment outlined to councillors on the housing and technical resources committee yesterday as part of a wider report on work to mainstream equality and dive

Mortgage lenders have announced a voluntary moratorium on possessions from Monday 13 December until Tuesday 4 January 2022. The industry is committed to providing ongoing support to those in financial difficulty as a result of the pandemic, especially those who may be worried about making their mort

Professor Duncan Maclennan from the University of Glasgow discusses how Australia is emerging as a key exemplar of the OECD’s concerns that unbalanced housing markets now impede inclusive growth and the implications for other housing markets.

Around £300,000 has been made available to people across North Ayrshire struggling with rent arrears as a result of the Covid-19 crisis. At a meeting of cabinet, elected members rubber-stamped the new Coronavirus Tenant Grant Fund to provide assistance to private and social-rented tenants.