City Of Edinburgh Council

The work of the Edinburgh Poverty Commission has been shortlisted for a national award as the city aims to end poverty in Scotland’s capital by 2030. The group, which worked together throughout 2019 and 2020, is in the running for the ‘Community Involvement’ category of the Local G

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has secured detailed planning permission from the City of Edinburgh Council for the provision of 80 homes through the development of further land off Kirkliston Road, at South Scotstoun, South Queensferry.

Housing developer Cullross and Port of Leith Housing Association have lodged plans with the City of Edinburgh Council to build 11 apartments at Telford Drive, Edinburgh. If approved, the flats will be built on the site of a disused convenience store, Urban Realm reports.

Increased funding for local authorities to deliver more affordable homes has been welcomed but will not be good enough to deliver the number of permanent homes needed across the country, according to Shelter Scotland.

A consultation has been launched on a proposal to convert the Cowan's Close depot on the south side of Edinburgh into new specially-designed wheelchair accessible homes. The City of Edinburgh Council's cleansing depot is set to close under a review of council sites.

Forth Ports has submitted revised plans for its Western Harbour housing development at the Port of Leith, significantly reducing the consented number of car parking spaces on-site alongside other incentives to reduce carbon emissions and plans to create an environmental education centre.

Proposals to create Scotland’s largest ‘net zero’ housing development in Edinburgh have been granted approval by city planners.

As part of its community benefit programmes for the City of Edinburgh Council, Urban Union has teamed up with Muirhouse Housing Association (MHA) to provide over £15,000 in ongoing support to the Muirhouse Millennium Centre in the north of Edinburgh since the onset of the pandemic in March 202

More than 250 families have moved into quality affordable homes thanks to an initiative developed by the City of Edinburgh Council's mid-market rent partnership and Scottish Futures Trust. Now in eight sites across the city, Edinburgh Living's 250th tenant moved into their new home in Craigmill

A major consultation has been launched on how Edinburgh will tackle climate change.

More than 300 households living in the private rented sector have been prevented from becoming homeless in just over a year thanks to the help of the City of Edinburgh Council’s Private Rented Service (PRS) Team.

A strategy has been developed to find ways for Edinburgh residents to meet their daily needs within 20 minutes of their homes by walking, using public transport, wheeling or cycling. On Thursday, members of the City of Edinburgh Council's policy and sustainability committee will consider a high-leve

The City of Edinburgh Council is to pilot an initiative that will offer homeowners the chance to sell their homes back to the local authority if they are struggling to pay for shared repair responsibilities. The plan coincides with a programme of repairs works at mixed tenure blocks in Dumbryde

Residents in the Canongate area of Edinburgh's Old Town will benefit from a range of conservation and energy efficiency improvements on track to reduce energy consumption and carbon emissions by over 50%.

The City of Edinburgh Council has set out a city-wide approach to reducing its greenhouse gas emissions as part of new plans being considered by councillors to tackle climate change.