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Families getting a Scottish benefit to help them buy healthy foods are being urged to check their balance on their prepaid card.  Best Start Foods, a payment of up to £42.40 every four weeks, helps eligible pregnant women, parents, families and carers with children under the age of three

Construction work has begun on the second phase of affordable homes in South Queensferry.

Residents of four Glasgow neighbourhoods have identified projects that could maximise the social, economic and environmental benefits of where they live.

TC Young has been awarded the top ranking for social housing in Scotland in the Legal 500. Legal 500 has been benchmarking law firm excellence since 1987 and conducts detailed research before ranking firms. 

Wheatley Group and its contractors are helping a teenager from Baillieston fulfil his dream of becoming an architect. Arran Love, 17, has just started studying for a degree in Architecture at Strathclyde University with the help of a £1500 Wheatley Foundation education bursary.

Plans to build 175 homes at Craigie Hill Golf Club, alongside the reconfiguration of the golf course and the creation of a new sports and community hub, have been submitted to Perth and Kinross Council.

Aberdeen City Council tenants are to be given the chance to have their say on proposed rent increases.

Kingdom Housing Association has won Best Affordable Housing Development (less than £10m) for its Balgove Road development in Gauldry. Situated at the edge of the rural Fife village, the 30 new homes for social rent are built to Passivhaus and net zero carbon standards and create Kingdom’

Perth and Kinross councillors have approved plans for 29 homes on the site of the former Gartwhinzean Hotel in Powmill. Kera Scotland Ltd submitted the proposal for a mix of two- and three-bedroom homes, including seven affordable houses, on the site of the hotel, which was demolished after a devast

Community Land Scotland has called on politicians to establish a legal right for young people to live in the community where they grew up, highlighting an "acute" shortage of affordable housing in rural areas.

Plans have been submitted to rebuild five terraced houses in East Kilbride that were destroyed by fire last year. The proposal by Sedgwick International aims to reconstruct the Whitelee properties in a similar style to their original form, with two central 1.5-storey homes and three two-storey prope

The JR Group has given its support to a number of local community groups and schools around Hawick.

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has published its annual report and accounts for 2023/24, highlighting the challenges facing the social housing sector.

Fife Housing Group has successfully retained its Investors in People (IIP) Platinum Accreditation. For over three decades Investors in People has been acknowledged internationally as a leading people accreditation, assessing over 50,000 organisations in 66 different countries. With a framework desig

Clark Contracts has been re-appointed to Scotland Excel’s £1.5 billion New Build Residential Construction Framework. The contractor has been appointed to all 5 lots of the framework which covers both the traditional build and design and build, of various sizes of housing developments acr