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Planning permission has been granted for a hotel, offices and 350 homes at the former Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) site on Edinburgh's Dundas Street.

The outcomes of the prestigious 2020 SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration were announced last night at a virtual celebratory presentation event streamed live via Vimeo. Having postponed the annual sit down dinner in the Grand Central Hotel in December, SURF delivered a virtual Awa

Plans to convert the former Mariner Hotel in Aberdeen into housing have been pushed forward by councillors.

Plans to fill a Tollcross gap site with flats and ground floor commercial units have been drawn up and submitted to Glasgow City Council. Permission is being sought for a four-storey building at 1042 Tollcross Road.

West Dunbartonshire Council has agreed to write off irrecoverable debts owed to the council after "exhausting all avenues" for collection. The money includes uncollectable miscellaneous debt of £83,000 dating back to 2017, of which more than £15,000 is due by residents who died with

An investment of over £5 million over the next ten years will help tackle flooding in Fife.

A company in Columbia has found a novel use for the husks discarded when coffee is roasted by turning them into building materials.

Ambitious new measures aimed at widening responsibility for homelessness prevention could stop people from losing their homes and make Scotland a world leader in ending homelessness, according to a new report from an independent group of experts.

Glasgow City Council has approved plans by Wheatley Group for 254 homes for a site in Calton.

More than £100 million is to be spent improving housing across South Lanarkshire in the next financial year. The huge investment will see 504 new homes being built as part of the council’s commitment to deliver 1,000 new homes. More than 500 new homes have already been delivered, with fa

Plans for ten new affordable homes in the north-east village of Insch have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. Developer Drumrossie Land Development Co Ltd applied for permission for the homes on land At South Road in Insch last May. The firm is working alongside Castlehill Housing Association o

The extra £100 million funding announced by the Scottish Government for affordable housing during 2021–2022 has been welcomed by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA). Announced by finance secretary Kate Forbes this week, the new funding brings t

Wheatley Group has helped tenants access an extra £9.4 million of unclaimed welfare benefits they were due. The group provides a free benefit advice service to ensure all tenants are getting every penny they are entitled to.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) is continuing to work in partnership with Abundant Borders to encourage the use of its community gardens in both Duns and Ayton. With the uncertainty over any lifting of restrictions due to Covid-19, it has been impossible to create a month-by-month plan of act

Beginning in late 2019, the Scotland Prevention Review Group has taken forward the work of the Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group (HARSAG) and the subsequent Scottish Government / COSLA Ending Homelessness Together Action Plan, to recommend new legal duties on councils and public bodies to