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The Scottish Land Fund has awarded the Langholm Initiative charity £1 million towards the purchase of 10,500 acres of Langholm Moor in the south of Scotland, which would see the local community creating a vast new nature reserve.

Midlothian Council has approved plans which could see local community groups turn areas of publicly owned land in places like health centres and parks into growing spaces for food.

More than £78 million is to be invested into the construction sector as part of a new Return to Work package to help stimulate Scotland’s economy following the coronavirus pandemic.

Inverness city centre is set to receive an affordable housing boost after plans to redevelop the former Arnotts building in Union Street were given the green light.

North Ayrshire Council has submitted its plans to deliver 18 new homes on the Isle of Cumbrae. Designed by Mast Architects, the development will occupy greenfield land to the north of Millport at St Beya Gardens.

Funding put in place by North Lanarkshire Council to assist people facing rent arrears during the coronavirus outbreak has helped more than 1,000 council tenants. The council made £300,000 worth of funding available to help tenants whose financial circumstances have been disrupted during

Outbreaks of COVID-19 in care homes have raised “serious human rights concerns” under Article 2 of European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) and the right to life, the Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) has stated. The intervention came in response to a letter from Scottish La

Sanctuary Scotland has received nearly £100,000 to support communities through the COVID-19 pandemic. The social housing provider has been awarded £96,000 by the Scottish Government to ensure essential services are available to vulnerable people and those isolated or shielding.

Pensioners in isolation during the coronavirus lockdown have been able to tuck into a weekly nutritional meal generously donated by a local Bield community group. Tenants at Bield’s sheltered housing development, Greenacre Court in Bannockburn, have been served soup and snacks every Tuesday fo

Yeoman McAllister Architects has submitted plans for 25 flats off Station Road in Edinburgh's Corstorphine district.

Children eligible for free school meals will be among those who continue to be supported over the summer through a package of £27.6 million of additional funding from the Scottish Government.

South Lanarkshire Council has secured funding from the Renewable Energy Fund (REF) to support community groups in the area. 

An initiative which matches business offers of support to schools, charities and local community groups in need has made 42 connections in Scotland since the start of the COVID-19 crisis.

While many readers of Scottish Housing News are taking advantage of the flexibility presented by working from home (WFH), our survey has revealed that more needs to be done to ensure employees are equipped to do so on a long-term basis and concerns have been raised regarding the loss of social inter

John Davidson has been named as the new chief executive officer at Almond Housing Association.  Following a robust recruitment exercise, the Association will welcome Mr Davidson to the team in September following George Webster’s retirement.