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Back in November 2019, Aspen People secured the services of Professor Lorne Crerar, CBE, as its non-executive chairman. The firm said that whilst responding to the pandemic and carrying on with the important day-job of filling leadership and senior positions took up nearly all of its time, it didn&r

Barratt Homes has teamed up with the British Interplanetary Society (BIS) to uncover exactly how a fully liveable home would look and operate within the hostile environment of the Moon.

A plan to build flats at the site of the former Fairfield Neighbourhood Centre has been approved by Perth & Kinross Council. Fairfield Neighbourhood Centre closed its doors for the last time at the end of September 2018 after being labelled as unsafe by local authority officials.

The joint venture behind the delivery of a build-to-rent neighbourhood on the site of the former Strathclyde Police headquarters in central Glasgow has secured £80 million of debt funding to finance its construction.

Angus Housing Association has gained planning approval for its resubmission of plans for 21 new affordable homes on a former Dundee school site.

Construction work to create much-needed, high-quality affordable homes for tenants of Caledonia Housing Association moves ahead this week with contractors on site at Muir Road and in the regeneration area of Bellsmyre. Caledonia Housing Association is working with contractor CCG on the £3

Glasgow City Council has approved plans for a site in Cathcart to be used as a residential development.  Officials approved an application seeking planning permission in principle for a block of flats at the junction of Newlands Road and Tankerland Road.

West Dunbartonshire Council has unveiled an updated strategy that will bring at least 100 empty homes across the region back into use.

Aberdeen City Council has received an Outstanding Service award at the 10th annual Scottish Empty Homes Conference.

West Dunbartonshire Council is leading the way with initiatives to ensure tenants are as involved as possible in decision making. In the past four years, a number of enhancements have been made to ensure tenants can be actively involved in Housing decisions that affect them.

Organisers of the 2021 Rural Housing Summit have announced the partner organisations and businesses who will be co-hosting the EXPO networking sessions at this month’s free, innovative, online event. Ecology Building Society, Savills, The Wee House Company, Paved With Gold, Grand Bequest, Soci

Property development company S Harrison has agreed the sale of a second large-scale development site in Edinburgh to residential for rent homes provider Watkin Jones for an undisclosed sum. The site, on the corner of Westfield Road and Westfield Avenue, is close to Murrayfield Stadium

Workloads in Scottish construction fell at a reduced rate at the end of last year compared to the previous two quarters, assisted by a rise in public housing and infrastructure workloads, according to the RICS Construction and Infrastructure Monitor, Q4 2020.

Glasgow-based assistive care technology firm Communicare247 has won funding worth over £130,000 to support the next phase of development of Project Liberty, a new system which will enable the UK’s most vulnerable people to live independently in their own homes and communities for longer.

With Homeless Action Scotland invited to submit evidence at stage one of the Domestic Abuse (Protection) (Scotland) Bill, communications and engagement manager Garry Burns outlines the charity's concerns in relation to the housing and homelessness element of the legislation.