Dundee City Council

Kevin Stewart MSP with David Zwirlein and Angela Linton from Hillcrest Minister for local government and housing, Kevin Stewart MSP, was in Dundee yesterday to visit the site of a new affordable housing development which will bring 163 new homes to the city.

Josh Littlejohn MBE launching the sleep out event Around 600 of Scotland’s most vulnerable rough sleepers are to be provided with homes and continuing support to sustain their tenancies under an imitative launched by social enterprise Social Bite.

The Blackness Road flats have been approved for demolition. Image credit: Google Street View A Dundee City Council report recommending the demolition of 26 flats was “seriously misleading” and highlights a lack of consultation among the affected tenants, according to the city's former housing co

Councillors in Dundee are to discuss plans for the latest £1 million phase of an external wall insulation (EWI) programme on another 120 homes throughout the city. The neighbourhood services committee will hear on Monday that the work at Barnes Avenue will provide warmer, more energy efficient home

Councillors in Dundee have approved a 3% rise in council housing rents to assist the ongoing regeneration of the city’s housing estates. The rent increase, which will amount to an average of an extra £2.13 per week, was unanimously agreed at a meeting of the local authority’s policy and resourc

Dundee City Council has warned that it could be faced with having to make nearly £70 million of savings over the next three years. A Financial Outlook 2018-21 report, set to be discussed by councillors next week, outlines projections that may be required to achieve a balanced budget, based on possi

(from left) Gerry Watson, investigation officer, Dundee City Council Anti-Social Behaviour Team, Jill Richmond, Dundee LPA Community Safety Unit D Division, Police Scotland, Louise Butchart, assistant housing manager, Hillcrest Housing Association and Neil Sneddon, team manager, Integrated Substance

A street name that disappeared when two Dundee multi storey blocks were built could be resurrected if councillors back the move next week. Russell Street was wiped from the map in the late 1960s to make way for Bucklemaker and Butterburn courts at the top of the Hilltown.

A joint Dundee City Council and Angus Council project to bring long-term privately-owned empty homes back into use has been nominated for a national award. The councils' shared services empty homes project is shortlisted in the Outstanding Service category at the Howdens Scottish Empty Homes Champio

Dundee City Council has allocated land belonging to 19 former schools for housing, the Dundee Evening Telegraph reports. Of the 24 schools lying vacant in the city, 19 of the sites are listed for housing, mostly in the North East, Strathmartine and Lochee council wards.

Blocks of flats in Dundee's Murrayfield Drive and Whitfield Avenue are set to be demolished next month after being vacated last year, the Dundee Evening Telegraph reports. Residents in the area have already been advised that the demolition will take place in November.

A near £350 million construction programme for the next five years is set to be outlined by Dundee City Council. The local authority’s capital plan takes in projects including the Waterfront and V&A Dundee, schools, an additional young persons’ house, affordable housing and the Regional Per

Plans for new homes set to be delivered at Dundee's Derby Street Dundee City Council has increased its new build social housing target to 1,000 properties by 2020/21 and has pledged to review the use of section 75 agreements to help deliver the new homes.

Almost 100 homes in Dundee could be in line for major upgrades if councillors approve a pair of tenders next week. Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services committee will be asked to agree to £750,000 of work to kitchens, bathrooms, central heating and window replacement by the council’s co

Jamie Hepburn Projects that help homeless people find and stay in work are some of the schemes that will share a £2.5 million fund from the Scottish Government.