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West Lothian Council is set to restart spending on home improvements as soon as the coronavirus restrictions are eased. Almost all council improvement programmes were stalled in the first lockdown last spring and only essential repairs were carried out.

South Lanarkshire Council has agreed to freeze the area’s Council Tax at 2020/21 levels as the local authority's budget for 2021-22 was approved by elected members yesterday. Council leader John Ross described the budget as a good deal for South Lanarkshire and highlighted how more than &

Midlothian Council has decided to defer a planned rents increase for council tenants due to the impact of the Covid -19 pandemic on households in the area and the expected recession. The council had initially planned a 3% rent increase as part of the Rent Setting Strategy 2019/20 – 2021/2

A new £15 million fund has been announced by the Scottish Government to support affordable lending services. The money will support Credit Unions and Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs) which offer financial help to those who have poor credit and are often turned away from hig

Edinburgh-based energy supplier People’s Energy Company is calling on Chancellor Rishi Sunak to provide more help for people struggling with fuel poverty in his Budget on March 3. The firm also wants to see further support for renewable energy programmes, including more funds for hou

Legislation which will help cut emissions, reduce fuel poverty and create green jobs by accelerating the deployment of heat networks has been passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament.

NatWest Group has issued a €1 billion affordable housing social bond, the first of its kind by a UK bank. The issuance reinforces NatWest Group’s July 2020 commitment to provide £3bn of funding to the UK’s affordable housing sector by the end of 2022.

The Scottish Parliament’s housing committee will hear this morning that rent increases during the pandemic prove the need for rent controls.

A leisure club in Glasgow’s Finnieston district is to make way for three residential blocks consisting of 195 flats.

Plans to build 581 new homes in Kincardine, along with a public park, have been submitted to Fife Council.

Plans for a major build to rent development on the banks of the canal near Speirs Wharf in Glasgow have been refused by councillors.

Glasgow-based contractor and manufacturer CCG (Scotland) Ltd has successfully completed its latest planned maintenance contract on behalf of Maryhill Housing with the installation of high-performance fire doors.

East Lothian Council members yesterday approved an amendment tabled by the Administration to freeze rent on council properties for the year 2021/22. Councillors also approved a capital budget of almost £30 million for 2021/22 for modernising existing council housing & investing in new coun

Wellhouse Housing Association (WHA) marked Random Acts of Kindness Week last week by delivering sweet treats to home-schooled pupils around North East Glasgow, spreading some cheer during the current lockdown.

Rosie Gollan, an Edinburgh-based solicitor at law firm Womble Bond Dickinson, looks at the Building Safety Bill and its implications in Scotland. Following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, the UK Government has been reviewing and taking steps to reform our building and fire safety regimes.