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Councillors have approved plans for the development of 175 homes at Leathan Fields in Portlethen. Stewart Milne Homes will build the new homes, 46 of which will be affordable houses, beside Hillside School.

Gourdon-based Fotheringham Homes has signalled its intent to build 70 homes on land at Johnshaven.

Scotland's coastal towns such as Arbroath, Montrose and St Andrews are under threat from rising sea levels, according to leading researcher Professor Jim Hansom.

Osprey Housing has appointed Simpson Buglass and Raymond Edgar to its board as long-term board member Mike Scott also steps up to take the role of non-executive chairman, while Stuart Robertson becomes vice chair. Mike Scott said: “We are delighted to welcome Simpson and Raymond to O

The £4.5 million Third Sector Homelessness Fund is now open for applications. The grant programme is designed to help Scottish charities innovate and transform their homelessness services in line with the Scottish Government’s Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan.

Glasgow City Council is to establish a new Alliance to work towards its aim of achieving a 75% reduction in rough sleeping by the end of the year and ending it completely by 2030.

Legislative measures are required to improve housing outcomes for women and children experiencing domestic abuse, according to CIH Scotland.

New homes can be built more efficiently if all of those involved – councils and housing associations, designers, planners, regulators and builders – sit down together at the beginning of every project, a report has found. CSIC chief executive Stephen Good and housing minister Kevin Stewa

Work has officially completed on a project to bring much-needed quality and affordable social housing to Elgin.

A trio of high-rise flats will be demolished in Airdrie to make way for new housing, signalling the first major step in North Lanarkshire Council’s ambitious regeneration plans. The three blocks of eight-storey towers at Holehills in Airdrie - Cheviot, Merrick and Pentland courts which held 13

New Gorbals Housing Association (NGHA) has received an award from The National Lottery Community Fund to help further develop a community budgeting project in the area. The £147,689 awarded will help the Gorbals Ideas Fund to develop, and fund the existing community budgeting officer post for

Elderpark Housing and Linthouse Housing Association held a hugely successful Burns Supper which brought the community together to celebrate the Bard. It was the eighth year the supper was laid on for tenants and the first time Linthouse and Elderpark organised it jointly.

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) tenants have helped to set up a food bank to provide emergency support to people in crisis. GHA’s office in Barmulloch runs a small food bank – called a ‘Take it or Leave it Box’ - where tenants in hardship can get help.

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) is planning to deliver new affordable homes in the Glencruitten area of Oban after a development masterplan was approved by the local authority. Argyll and Bute Council’s planning committee last week gave the green light to a masterplan for a develop

The Paisley Centre shopping facility could be repurposed into a new residential quarter under radical new plans to reimagine the town and reverse Scotland’s declining High Streets. How the Paisley Centre entrance could look if the centre was repurposed as a new residential quarter