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Aberdeen City Council is inviting landowners and developers have been invited to register their interest in providing high-quality council homes in the city.

Services are set to be enhanced in South Lanarkshire which aim to increase the number of long term empty homes being brought back into use. A report to South Lanarkshire Council’s housing and technical resources committee confirmed that over 1,100 properties were registered as long term e

A short video has been launched to mark a century of council housing in North Lanarkshire.

Linthouse Housing Association and main contractor CCG have successfully completed a third phase of housing renewals as part of a suite of works undertaken throughout 2019. The organisations have worked together for two years; undertaking an ambitious stock improvement programme to over 450 propertie

The untapped energy potential from Scotland’s parks and greenspaces could provide low carbon heat for homes and reduce the nation's carbon footprint, research published today by greenspace scotland has revealed.

Katherine Metcalfe compares building safety regulations north and south of the border. The UK government announced last month that a new building safety regulator for England, under the auspices of the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), will be formed as part of a package of measures to improve high

A new phase of retirement homes officially opened last week at the Hugh Fraser Retirement Estate, formerly the Crookfur estate, in Newton Mearns. Wellbeing charity retailTRUST is at the forefront of the development.

Rural Housing Scotland is holding its annual conference in Birnam on February 28. In the opening session of the conference, journalist and campaigner Lesley Riddoch will be asking 'What happens if we stop managing decline in our rural areas and instead start tacking the structural obstacle

Chamberlain Bell Developments has submitted plans to Angus Council to fully restore the listed buildings at Strathmartine Hospital.

Developers have lodged plans to deliver new apartments on the site of a former Glasgow convent.

Development firm Cater Group has unveiled plans for new apartments on the site of a former bakery in Aberdeen.

The City of Edinburgh Council has paved the way for record investment in affordable homes with the setting of a new three-year budget. The council will make required savings of £35 million over the next 12 months and planned savings of around £87m over the next three years, while targeti

Eildon Housing’s plans to deliver more green homes in the Borders moved another step closer this week. The first of three Passivhaus homes at Springfield Place in St Boswells will complete in March and a further ten-home development at Westruther has secured planning permission.

Southside Housing Association has submitted plans for a 120-flat development in Pollokshields. Set to replace the existing five and six-storey 1960s blocks of flats, the properties would form phases two and three of the masterplan for the St Andrew’s Drive, Shields Road, Maxwell Drive and St J

LAR Housing Trust has completed a tendering process for its £20 million construction framework. The design and build framework, which will last for a four-year term, is split into two lots and generated considerable interest in the sector.