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Residents across North Ayrshire can see for themselves how the local authority is at the cutting edge of developing homes for the future.

Permission is being sought to demolish a disused Glasgow City Council building in Cranhill and build affordable flats.

Residents of the Isle of Colonsay have launched a crowdfunding to raise £25,000 towards the costs of building community-owned affordable homes on the island. Island residents hope the campaign will gather enough support and funds to help them build four new homes to rent out long-term and keep

Local people in Ferguslie Park will have the opportunity to make their good ideas a reality as the Tannahill Centre launches its fund aimed at supporting local people deliver projects that support their community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past three months a group of local people h

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have released a landmark new report which sets out a bold new vision for the Church of England to lead by example to help solve the housing crisis, including delivering more affordable homes on its own land.

Moray Council has agreed increases in charges for housing services for the coming year, including house and garage rent, and grass cutting. Even with the agreed 3% increase in rent, which over 58% of tenants who responded to the consultation voted for, Moray Council continues to have one of the lowe

Scottish Borders Council will next week discuss a proposal to freeze Council Tax at the current level, which is the sixth lowest in mainland Scotland, for 2021/22. This follows confirmation that the Scottish Government will compensate local authorities who choose to freeze Council Tax in the next fi

Routine indoor visiting of care home residents by relatives, friends and carers will be able to resume in Scotland from early March with care providers supporting residents to have up to two designated visitors each and one visit a week for each visitor. With a wide range of protections now in place

Growing awareness of environmental issues will encourage builders and developers to make new homes ever greener in the coming years and decades. Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, identifies four main areas by which tomorrow’s homes will reduce their envi

Work has started on the first new homes to be built at the development in East Lothian with more good news to come later this year, according to developer Hargreaves Land. Blindwells, which is located less than 10 miles east of Edinburgh, has outline planning permission for 1,600 homes. Hargrea

The Scottish Government has withdrawn its planned legislation on short-term lets from the Scottish Parliament to allow for draft guidance to be developed.

Alastair MacNish is to stand down as chair of Wheatley Group later this year. Mr MacNish, who joined the board of the housing, care and property management group in 2012 and has been chair since 2015, will step down at Wheatley’s AGM in September. H

The City of Edinburgh Council has set a balanced £1 billion-plus budget for the next financial year with Council Tax and rents for council house tenants frozen at 2020/21 levels. 

Two housing associations have revealed they are in discussions over plans that could create the UK’s largest residential landlord. Sanctuary Group, which manages 100,000-home across the UK, announced to the stock market yesterday that its board has agreed to enter into due diligence

Hart Builders is to work with Midlothian Council to deliver 265 new homes in the region in support of the council’s Local Housing Strategy. A total of 49 of the new homes have already been completed and handed over to the local authority, despite the closure of construction sites for a si