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Mactaggart & Mickel has welcomed Inverclyde Council’s approval of their outline planning application for a residential development in Kilmacolm.

Proposals for the ‘ideal’ legal framework to address homelessness in Great Britain, with potential lessons for other countries seeking to pursue rights-based approaches in this field, have been set out in a new research article. Exploiting the ‘natural experiment’ conditions

The board of Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS) has appointed Martin Avila as the group's new CEO, replacing the outgoing CEO Ian Mitchell. Mr Avila joins from his current position as director at the Kinning Park Complex and will be taking up his new position in early August. He brings a new vi

A community effort to buy former vacant shops in Killin has been launched to bring them back into public use. Killin and Ardeonaig Trust (KAT) wish to register an interest in a Community Right to Buy on the land known as Co-operative for the benefit of the community.

A Dutch couple has moved into Europe’s first 3D-printed house. The house in Eindhoven – the first of five within ‘Project Milestone’ – fully complies with all of the strict building requirements of The Netherlands. Uniquely, the project partners have realized a home wit

The year ahead will see the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) support the national COVID-19 response alongside carrying out a programme of planned regulatory activities. Publishing a summary of its work plans for 2021/22, the Regulator said it will continue to work with the Scottish Government and co

Shelter Scotland has appointed Andy Knox as its national legal services manager. Formerly principal solicitor at Lanarkshire Community Law Centre, Mr Knox's new role at Shelter Scotland will see him providing professional and regulatory management and support to the legal team.

A document that will help guide Glasgow city centre's development over the next three decades, drive economic renewal and meet the challenges of climate change has now been adopted by Glasgow City Council after approval from the Scottish Government.

Angus Council is to accelerate a pandemic-delayed programme of council house repairs. The local authority’s planned stock improvement investment is £2 million behind schedule for the year, largely due to the lockdown.

West Lothian Council has received 13 expressions of interest in the potential redevelopment of Linlithgow’s Vennel site. The opening of the Linlithgow Partnership Centre has resulted in a number of properties in and around the Vennel area in Linlithgow becoming vacant and surplus to requi

The next Scottish Government will face immediate trade union pressure to follow through on urgent reform of residential care, the STUC has warned. In its election care briefing, the organisation said service users and workers have been let down by successive Scottish governments and that improving p

Places for People has hailed the success of its 55 Degrees North development in Edinburgh after all the homes were snapped up by homebuyers.

A building in Glasgow city centre which is the subject of an 11-storey residential development proposal was engulfed in a huge fire yesterday. Eleven fire crews — including two high reach units — tackled the fire on the corner of High Street and George Street which was reported around 1.

Scotland’s construction-led economic recovery is threatened by a combination of sharply rising prices, disrupted supply chains and a chronic shortage of labour as the consequences of a no-deal Brexit coupled with the impact of the Covid pandemic.

Construction firm JR Group has been awarded a contract to build new housing in Kirkcaldy on behalf of Fife Housing Group.