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Scottish Greens have welcomed changes to the Scottish Government’s planning bill which they say will help tackle Scotland’s housing crisis by making land for housebuilding more affordable, however housebuilders have called the measures “premature”. Housing spokesperson Andy Wightman MSP said

Councillor Sandra Macdonald at the site of a new affordable housing site at Lang Stracht Aberdeen City Council has published its Housing Performance Report 2017/18, highlighting areas of progress and opportunities for improvement.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has issued a short FAQs document for advisers in Scotland’s housing sector which sets out the support on offer for dealing with discrimination issues. The Commission has recently re-launched its ‘EHRC Adviser Support’ service which provides high

Landlords will be forced to acquire full planning permission to lease homes by the night on websites including Airbnb after changes to the Scottish Government’s Planning Bill were agreed by MSPs. Holyrood’s local government and communities committee agreed an amendment from tabled by Scottish Gr

Judith Robertson A Scottish Human Right Commission housing rights project could be expanded after a pilot scheme in Leith yielded improvements in housing conditions for local residents.

The housing development team at West Dunbartonshire Council have been nominated for three awards for the work they are doing in the area. The team’s commitment to involving tenants and service users has been highlighted for the third year in a row at the TPAS (Scotland) National Good Practice Awar

(from left) Paul Cox, Gowrie Care service user; Karen MacKinnon, Maggie’s Dundee cancer support specialist; Tom Fotheringham, Gowrie Care service user and Michael McGuire, Gowrie Care support worker Two Gowrie Care services recently held a coffee morning in Dundee to raise over £200 for Maggie’

Retiring Steve Barron was presented with a Quaich Retiring Highland Council chief executive Steve Barron received tributes from councillors across the chamber yesterday as he attended his final meeting of the council.

Eric Curran Eric Curran at DM Hall on the changes in the surveyor sector which he has witnessed firsthand over the last 40 years.

The old Nesting school is now owned by a local community group. Photo: Shetland Islands Council A local community development group has take over the former Nesting School - the first time property has been obtained from Shetland Islands Council using new asset transfer legislation.

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has persistently dismissed evidence that Universal Credit is causing hardship for claimants and refuses to measure what it does not want to see, according to a committee of MPs. A report from the public accounts committee has concluded that the introduction

Members of Angus Housing Association with DJ Laing Homes managing director, Karen Nicoll Angus Housing Association and DJ Laing Homes marked the latest stage in their partnership building new homes for rent when they handed over the keys to a new 3 bedroom home in Carnoustie to a delighted new tenan

Getting into the spirit of the event are Unite union student accommodation officers (clockwise from bottom) Libby Stephenson, Kerry Watson, Jennifer Finley and Sophie Bayliss One hundred supporters of homelessness charity the Rock Trust slept out in Edinburgh’s St Andrew Square Gardens with nothin

Nile Istephan Nile Istephan and Ewan Aitken are among a group of experts from the private and third sectors to have been appointed to a Regional Enterprise Council (REC) by the Edinburgh and South-East Scotland City Region Deal.

Rodney Whyte By Rodney Whyte, partner and property and planning specialist at law firm Pinsent Masons