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Glasgow-based construction firm City Building has added another prestigious award to its accolades after receiving its third Queen’s Award for Enterprise. City Building took home the Promoting Opportunity Award, a category recognising businesses and organisations delivering social pr

Places for People's Engine Yard development in Edinburgh has been shortlisted at this year’s Inside Housing Awards 2021.

Heat networks have not been widely adopted in the UK due to a lack of regulation and resulting lack of consumer confidence. They also require significant upfront capital costs. As Scotland is the first nation within the UK to bring out legislation in this area, Sarah-Jane McArthur and Sara

Regeneration business Peel L&P has submitted an initial planning application into its proposed delivery of 1,100 homes, a 200-bedroom hotel plus a 2,500 sqm for a mix of leisure venues at Glasgow's Yorkhill Quay. The land, located on the Northern banks of the River Clyde in the West End of Glasg

More than three quarters (86%) of housing providers thought that the social housing sector lags behind other industries in terms of digital engagement according to a report published by Scotland’s Housing Network. The network carried out research to provide insight into the current perceptions

A public consultation will be conducted into plans for 61 new homes in Bathgate. Persimmon Homes East Scotland has lodged a Proposal of Application Notice to West Lothian Council regarding its housing, commercial and retail plan for land at Simpson Avenue / Leyland Road in Wester Inch.

Osprey Housing Group chief executive Glenn Adcook is set to retire after nearly 50 years working in the housing sector. Glenn, who joined the north east social landlord in 2011, becoming CEO in 2017, will step down by the end of the year.

Kingdom Housing Association (KHA) has unveiled an ambitious development programme that will see it aim to deliver an estimated 2,003 affordable new homes over the next five years.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has removed Thistle Housing Association from the register of social landlords following the directed transfer of its homes to Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association.

CIH Scotland national director Callum Chomczuk reflects on what is missing from Housing to 2040. Last month saw the publication of Housing to 2040, a 20-year strategy full of welcome ambition about the future of our sector and the role of housing in improving society at large.

A new £1.85 million development of Perth & Kinross Council homes has been completed at Ardler Road in Meigle. The 12 new homes for affordable rent have been built to the highest standard. All windows and doors are double-glazed with an energy rating of A+ and they are well insulated to kee

Cumbernauld-based housing developer McKernan Homes has secured a £1.93 million funding package from Bank of Scotland to help build a new eco-friendly development in Dennistoun, East Glasgow.

Under One Roof has appointed Mike Heffron as its new chief executive. Following the registration last year of Under One Roof as a charitable organisation, Under One Roof now has a full-time employee who will be responsible for phase two of its long-term plan to expand the support it gives to tenemen

Mast Architects has shared some images of its recently completed development on Nethan Street, which was handed over to Elderpark Housing Association earlier this year.

Eviction actions initiated in Scotland's social housing sector fell to their lowest in the decade prior to the coronavirus pandemic, new statistics have revealed. Figures in the newly-published Civil Justice Statistics for Scotland found that between April 2019 and March 2020, evictions from so