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Glasgow-based NIXON has been appointed to work with Southside Housing Association (SHA) to survey more than 3,000 of its properties.

Formal consultation is under way to enable Caledonia Housing Association to action its £30 million regeneration plans for homes and services in the Bellsmyre area of Dumbarton. This formal stage of consultation will conclude on 7 February 2020 and once feedback has been considered, will lead t

North Ayrshire Council has become the first local authority in Scotland to adopt a new Simplified Planning Zone (SPZ) which aims to stimulate development on a prime housing site.

The Advanced Industrialised Methods for the Construction of Home (AIMCH) has published a research report to help the housebuilding sector better evaluate productivity and respond to future demands.

The Scottish Government’s Building Scotland Fund (BSF) has topped £100 million of financial support for housing, regeneration and industrial and commercial developments throughout the country.

An Edinburgh jobcentre is one of those to benefit from a share of a £3 million grant from the UK Government to support homeless people. The jobcentre in Edinburgh already works alongside charity Crisis to provide aid to those experiencing homelessness.

Scottish landlords are now facing a ten-month legal delay to evict tenants who refuse to pay rent, new research has revealed. Official figures uncovered by Aberdein Considine show that the average eviction now takes over 300 days following a legal shake-up by the Scottish Government.

A team from homelessness charity Ypeople were invited to participate in Street Cones' 'The Road to Change' workshop last month. After learning about the work Street Cones does, Ypeople snapped up the chance for a few staff and people it supports to head to Stirling for the day to part

Halliday Fraser Munro has submitted plans to demolish three warehouses in Aberdeen to make way for 33 apartments.

A new application has been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council in an attempt to transform a vacant Turriff bank into flats.

Government plans to improve standards of temporary accommodation across Scotland are a step in the right direction but may not go far enough to help those most in need, according to a senior homelessness case worker.

An expert commentator on civic licensing has warned of a “flood” of licence applications for short-term lets in Scotland that could reach tens of thousands. Stephen McGowan, partner and head of licensing in Scotland at UK law firm TLT, was commenting in response to the Scottish Governmen

This year marks 30 years of service for Cunninghame Housing Association group chief executive Frank Sweeney. After holding several senior positions within the housing association sector, Frank joined the then Three Towns Housing Association in January 1990 as its director. In 1990, the Association c

Sanctuary has handed over the last of the 132 homes built on the site of St Mirren FC’s former Love Street stadium with an old Buddies ball boy among the recipients. The £17 million development has created a new community and brought life to an area that was Paisley’s heart and sou

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has just completed the final phase in a 32-unit new build in the village of Connel, north of Oban. The completed development was officially opened by Highlands and Islands MSP John Finnie.