Perth-based housebuilder A&J Stephen has warned it expects to lose money in the current financial year due to delays in development sites coming forward. The family firm, which currently has developments in Perth, Glenfarg, Inverness and the outskirts of Aberdeen, trebled its profits last year.
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Allanwater Homes will shortly deliver a new development of 95 homes in the Hillfoots village of Alva. A selection of three to five bedroom, semi-detached and detached, eco-friendly homes will be included in the first phase of the development, which has been named Silver Glen.
Work has started on two projects which will provide 60 new affordable housing in Edinburgh. The homes – 19 for mid-market rent in Morrison Crescent and 41 for social rent in Beaverbank Place – are being built for Dunedin Canmore, part of Wheatley Group, by Glasgow-based contractor and ma
The UK Government is to scrap its plans to extend a benefits cap to 15,000 families with more than two children. Work and pensions secretary Amber Rudd told Sky News that families with a third child born before April 6, 2017, will still be able to claim £2,780 worth of annual Universal Credit
The public are being invited to view latest proposals by Hallhill Developments Limited for a residential and recreational development at Hallhill in Dunbar. Since commencing in 1999, the Hallhill landholding has delivered around 1,000 houses with approximately 300 currently under development.
A Loretto Housing tenant has received more than £21,000 in backdated benefit payments thanks to the work of the Association’s welfare benefits advisor. Karen Gribben, from Lanarkshire, received the payment after Loretto helped her claim Severe Disabled Premium she didn’t know she w
A document which outlines the eight principles that will guide Scotland’s new social security system is to be considered for approval by the Scottish Parliament. Created by people with experience of the existing social security system, the newly-published ‘Our Charter’ outlines in
The First-tier Tribunal for Scotland Housing and Property Chamber has provided the following stakeholder communication regarding private rented sector cases and residential tenancies.
A new mobile-friendly website helped Scottish Construction Now to a record year in 2018 with daily newsletter subscribers increasing by almost 1,000 to just under 8,500 and website users jumping by 6,000 a month — up from 39,000 to just over 45,000. The figures confirm Scottish Construction No
Another milestone in North Lanarkshire Council’s house building project has been marked as the 600th tenant to move in to one of its homes. John and Pauline MacFarlane and their son Stuart moved in to their new build home at Cairnhill, the site of the former Alexandra Primary School.
Three Clydebank Housing Association colleagues participated in the Sleep in the Park event last month to raise money for homelessness.
CIH Scotland has taken over the role of secretariat for the Scottish Parliament’s Cross-Party Group on Housing. Cross-Party Groups (CPGs) are open to all and provide an opportunity for members of all parties, outside organisations and members of the public to meet and discuss a shared interest
A reduction in grant funding and additional pressures mean the Highland Council is facing a £31.2 million budget gap for 2019-20, the local authority has warned. Detailed analysis of the Scottish Government’s funding settlement, which makes up the vast proportion of the council’s b
As the Fuel Poverty Bill continues to make its way through Parliament, CIH Scotland’s policy and practice manager Ashley Campbell reflects on the need for cross party commitment to achieve real changes. On 16 October the National Records of Scotland published its annual statistics showing how
An appeal against an Aberdeen City Council decision to reject a planning application for additional properties at a CALA Homes site has been upheld by the Scottish Government. The housebuilder’s plans to deliver 16 homes at its Craibstone development were rejected by the local authority last y