Aberdeen City Council

The second phase of a major council housing development in Aberdeen has been completed – with more than half the properties now occupied.  

A collective of tenants, residents, registered social landlords and local authorities in the North East celebrated the launch of a strategy and action plan over lunch with social housing tenants, residents, staff and partners.

Aberdeen City Council is to map out a programme of works for an “ambitious residential-led mixed use development” in the heart of the city.

A homelessness prevention project is under way to investigate ways to improve the performance of section 11 notices in the north and islands of Scotland. Whenever a landlord raises proceedings to end a tenancy, by law they must serve to the relevant local authority a section 11 notice, to allow the

Affordable homes are to be developed in Aberdeen city centre after offices at Exchequer House were acquired by developer Swan Group. Previously used as commercial offices, the four floors above the currently occupied ground floor has recently received planning permission for a 37-unit development.

A new affordable housing development which will inject 67 good quality affordable homes into the city’s housing stock has been officially opened by minister for local government, housing and planning Kevin Stewart MSP. Constructed by Stewart Milne on behalf of Hillcrest, the development at Cou

The number of people left homeless as a result of domestic violence has almost tripled in Aberdeen over the past five years, according to new data. Figures from Aberdeen City Council revealed there were 258 incidents in which people fled their homes after violent or abusive disputes in 2017-18,

Aberdeen City Council has said it will review its practices after a padlock was placed on the door of a flat while an undiscovered dead man lay inside. Michael Stewart, 32, was discovered dead in his property on Friday 8 March by police carrying out a welfare check at the request of his mum. He had

Proposals to create new council housing on sites at Summerhill, Kincorth, Torry, Dyce and Greenferns are among those to have moved forward as part of ambitious plans to significantly increase the supply of social housing in Aberdeen. The plans were at the heart of the Housing Revenue Account budget

Councillors have approved plans for around 300 homes in Aberdeen. Developers First Endeavour LLP will build 283 flats across four five-storey blocks at Wellshead Road in Dyce.

Aberdeen City Council has launched a new empty homes service with support from the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP). A full-time specialist empty homes officer will be employed to help track down owners of empty properties and work with them to return them to the housing stock, for instance b

Elderly tenants of Langstane Housing Association have received an apology from Aberdeen City Council for failing to deliver a grit bin as promised. The council agreed last September to install a grit bin close to the Seaton Walk residents after being approached by local MSP Kevin Stewart.

Council planners have recommended that plans for around 300 council homes in Aberdeen should go ahead. Planners gave the nod to a revised proposal from First Endeavour LLP to build 283 flats at Wellshead Road in Dyce across four five-storey blocks, the Press & Journal reports.

Thirteen blocks of flats in Aberdeen are to be demolished due to long-running subsidence issues. Aberdeen City Council's city growth and resources committee accepted a recommendation from officers to demolish flats in Erroll Place and Erroll Street, near King Street.

Stakeholder groups have been given an outline of the funding challenges facing Aberdeen City Council as it prepares to set the 2019/20 budget. The budget will be decided at a meeting of full council on March 5 – with a range of measures to be considered to bridge a funding gap of between &poun