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Housebuilder Barratt Homes Scotland has received the maximum 5-star rating in the new Home Builders Federation (HBF) annual New Homes Customer Satisfaction Survey.

Bancon Homes has been accredited with a ‘Gold Award’ and ‘Outstanding Award’ for customer satisfaction. The awards, run by specialist market research company In-house Research Ltd, are based purely on customer feedback.

The opening of a new £50 million Scottish Government fund to help transform thousands of hectares of vacant and derelict land across Scotland signals a commitment to tackling the legacy blighting communities, according to the Scottish Land Commission. Scotland has almost 11,000 hectares of vac

The Highland Council has extended the deadline for views on the new Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan until 5pm on April 30. The Main Issues Report sets out possible ways of delivering more affordable housing, directing development to more sustainable places, better matching infrastructu

Providing a package of essential furniture to someone in need creates £6472 of social value according to a report published by End Furniture Poverty. The charitable campaign worked with social value experts ‘morethanoutputs’ and Liverpool City Council to carry out the study, which

It's been a year this month since we entered lockdown for the first time in the face of the coronavirus pandemic and I’m sure none of us imagined this would be the case when we left our offices to work from home in March 2020. Many of us who are able to are still working from home. At Kingdom,

Govan Housing Association's plans to deliver new affordable homes at Water Row in Govan have been submitted for planning.

Scotland’s transition to net-zero emissions by 2045 must be a “national mission with social justice at its heart”, according to the Just Transition Commission (JTC), the independent commission set up to advise the Scottish Government on how to manage the move fairly. In its final r

Charles Turner, chief executive of Thenue Housing, has sent his congratulations to Scottish Housing News on our 20th anniversary on behalf of the whole Thenue team.

Caledonia Housing Association is moving full steam ahead in its ambitious £30 million regeneration of Bellsmyre area of Dumbarton. Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, The Vale of Leven, Helensburgh and Lomond, visited the site to witness the major demolition works of the old unpopular tenements

Wheatley Group is stepping up its support to help refugees and asylum seekers settle into life in Scotland with the development of a new welcome pack. The pack will help refugees access information and advice on their rights, choices and housing options, including tenancy agreements translated

East Lothian Council has appointed Wendy McGuire as its new head of housing.  Ms McGuire is currently East Lothian Council's service manager for housing strategy and development.

While there is much to commend in the Scottish Government's Housing to 2040 strategy, Shelter Scotland's assistant director for communications and advocacy, Gordon MacRae, said its stated goals represent a shortfall in the minimum number of social homes required to address housing. The Scottish

From this week, the homes of 50,000 UK households will be upgraded with green improvements from a £562 million fund, reducing carbon emissions and supporting thousands of green jobs across the country.

Osprey Housing has added to its rural Aberdeenshire portfolio with tenants moving into three new builds in Inverurie. The houses — two two-bedroom and one three-bedroom — are in Portstown and offer residents state-of-the-art design while also boosting the town’s social housing prov