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New homes can be built more efficiently if all of those involved – councils and housing associations, designers, planners, regulators and builders – sit down together at the beginning of every project, a report has found. CSIC chief executive Stephen Good and housing minister Kevin Stewa

Work has officially completed on a project to bring much-needed quality and affordable social housing to Elgin.

A trio of high-rise flats will be demolished in Airdrie to make way for new housing, signalling the first major step in North Lanarkshire Council’s ambitious regeneration plans. The three blocks of eight-storey towers at Holehills in Airdrie - Cheviot, Merrick and Pentland courts which held 13

New Gorbals Housing Association (NGHA) has received an award from The National Lottery Community Fund to help further develop a community budgeting project in the area. The £147,689 awarded will help the Gorbals Ideas Fund to develop, and fund the existing community budgeting officer post for

Elderpark Housing and Linthouse Housing Association held a hugely successful Burns Supper which brought the community together to celebrate the Bard. It was the eighth year the supper was laid on for tenants and the first time Linthouse and Elderpark organised it jointly.

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) tenants have helped to set up a food bank to provide emergency support to people in crisis. GHA’s office in Barmulloch runs a small food bank – called a ‘Take it or Leave it Box’ - where tenants in hardship can get help.

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) is planning to deliver new affordable homes in the Glencruitten area of Oban after a development masterplan was approved by the local authority. Argyll and Bute Council’s planning committee last week gave the green light to a masterplan for a develop

The Paisley Centre shopping facility could be repurposed into a new residential quarter under radical new plans to reimagine the town and reverse Scotland’s declining High Streets. How the Paisley Centre entrance could look if the centre was repurposed as a new residential quarter

The number of first-time buyers in Scotland rose to 33,558 in 2019, an increase of more than 90% from 17,580 a decade ago, according to the latest research from Bank of Scotland.

Housing minister Kevin Stewart has called for urgent action to resolve an issue which has seen homeowners unable to sell or re-mortgage their homes following the publication of cladding advice from the UK Government.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is calling on people who rely on electricity to heat their homes to seek advice on how they can save on their energy bills as new figures show a jump in the number of electric-only households in fuel poverty.

Glasgow City Mission has introduced a scheme to allow dogs to stay with their owners through the night at its Winter Night Shelter.

Dundee City Council has approved plans to build eight new homes on brownfield land in Dundee.

Springfield Properties is set to deliver nearly 350 homes across two developments in Moray after planning refusals for both applications were overturned by the Scottish Government. Councillors had decided against applications for 316 homes at Ferrylea in Forres and 26 affordable homes Bain Avenue in

Glasgow City Council is to team up with Govan Housing Association to tackle the condition of pre-1919 homes in the city's Ibrox and Cessnock areas.