Scottish Government

Dundee City Council's neighbourhood services committee will hear on Monday how the latest £3.9 million phase of an external wall insulation (EWI) programme will provide warmer, more energy-efficient homes at over 400 properties.

The Scottish Government has announced that it will provide an extra £1 million to community projects which help low-income households to eat, to deal with the additional pressures of Brexit. The provisions for funding will accommodate for a no-deal Brexit, which is likely to push more people i

The ground has officially been broken at a new housing site at Fraser Walk, New Farm Loch in Kilmarnock where 56 new homes for rent will be built.

The Scottish Government announced has launched a new five-year programme to help prepare for the impact of climate change. The Scottish Climate Change Adaptation Programme 2019-24 will help the Scottish Government identify the actions Scotland needs to take to adapt to a changing climate.

Scottish Greens MSP Mark Ruskell has said that the Climate Change Bill must ensure that every family in Scotland has a warm home.

The Scottish Government will provide social landlords with £1.5 million to allow them to work with families and protect them from homelessness.

The Scottish Government has overturned Aberdeenshire Council's rejection of plans to build 113 homes in Tarves, The Press and Journal reports. Councillors at the local authority refused Scotia Homes' plans last year due to concerns over the scale of the development and lack of accompanying amenities

Plans to build new houses for social rent on the former site of Dundee's Whitfield Primary School have been submitted. The plans have been submitted by Angus Housing Association and George Martin Builders Ltd, who intend to build 18 homes on the Longhaugh Road site, made up of 10 houses and eight fl

Melville Housing Association has launched an innovative flooring project to improve the lives of hard-pressed tenants, while simultaneously helping the environment. The Dalkeith-based housing association will deliver the project which uses reconditioned carpet tiles saved from landfill, will be offe

The building at the forefront of the Save Leith Walk campaign was lit up with a projection of how the street could look.

New research commissioned by Aberlour Child Care Trust has revealed that people from the most deprived areas in Scotland are three times more likely to die before the age of 25.

New plans have been submitted by Persimmon Homes to build 71 new homes as part of a development on the former Stewart's Cream of Barlet bottling plant on the Kingsway. Persimmon has attempted to develop the land at the Kingsway site for many years. Its newest application follows Dundee councillors'

North Lanarkshire Council's plans to work with housing developers to buy new 'off the shelf homes' has been given the green light. The council's plans to deliver new affordable housing across North Lanarkshire received a boost on Friday, as the innovative pilot to begin the pilot programme was agree

Edinburgh residents are now settling into their new affordable homes in the Western Harbour development. The new houses were built through the innovative National Housing Trust (NHT) scheme, which forms part of a wider commitment from the Scottish Government to deliver 50,000 affordable and high-qua

Changes requiring landlords to declare whether or not they comply with specific duties have come into force with effect from today. The Scottish Government announced the changes in response to the failure of some landlords to comply with the legal requirements of letting homes to tenants.