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Winchburgh Developments Limited (WDL) has sold a prime waterfront site to J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) PLC to deliver 64 new apartments and houses overlooking the new Winchburgh canal marina.

Plans have been submitted for 24 homes on the site of an existing car park on Meadow Place Road in Edinburgh.

A five-storey block of flats plagued by anti-social behaviour is to be demolished next year to make way for a new care village in Anstruther. 

Highland Council has agreed a new thirty-year vision for the future of the region to promote through the Scottish Government’s new National Planning Framework.

Plans to convert a former Bridgeton job centre into flats have been rejected by Glasgow City Council.

Ypeople CEO Janet Haugh discusses meeting the challenges of this year, and how the charity plans to keep the support of those who need it most as its priority. There’s a classic song from the Sixties called ‘You Don’t Miss Your Water (Till Your Well Runs Dry)’ which beautiful

The Scottish Government has said it will invest nearly £1.6 billion to directly support up to 5,000 jobs and tackle fuel poverty as part of its plans to drive Scotland’s green recovery and end its contribution to climate change. Part of an enhanced Green New Deal, the investment wil

A new report from Scottish Women's Aid has revealed the devastating effects that COVID-19 - and measures to address the pandemic - have had on those experiencing domestic abuse and on the specialist services working to support survivors. 

Four of the UK's biggest housing developers are being investigated by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) over concerns they may have broken consumer protection law in relation to leasehold homes.

The number of first-time buyers in Scotland is at a seven-year low, falling over a third (35%) since last year, according to the latest data from Bank of Scotland. 

In the latest article in the ongoing Our Housing Heritage series, Scottish Housing News discusses the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. In the absence of social housing, families across the UK in 1915 were at the mercy of private landlords who could hike rents and evict tenants at will with little restr

The first phase of modern new homes for West Dunbartonshire Council on the site of a former primary school in Clydebank will be handed over to tenants this month.

Along with colleagues across and beyond the housing sector, staff at the University of Stirling are hugely saddened at the passing of our colleague and great friend, Alan Ferguson.

Caledonia Housing Association has refurbished one of its buildings in Perth to provide accommodation for local support agencies and charities.

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) is providing assistance to those who are struggling with fuel poverty by offering fuel vouchers to local residents.  Using funding secured from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund, via Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), HHP c