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Developers have unveiled plans to build 62 homes on the site of a former Dundee school. Persimmon Homes North Scotland has lodged proposals with Dundee City Council for the old Kingspark School site in Gillburn Road, Kirkton after acquiring the site for £3.3 million in December.

Planners have set out a timetable for the production of a new Aberdeenshire Local Development Plan (LDP), which provides a planning blueprint for the area. Just months after the adoption of the current plan, work has started on the pre-planning phase of a four-year project to produce the next one.

Developers have submitted plans to build homes on the site of a former Dundee hospital. Kirkwood Homes hopes to build 18 detached houses on a new street extending from the junction of South Drive and East Road in Liff.

Around 12,000 mainstream social tenants across Scotland aged under 35 could collectively face an annual rent affordability gap of up to £8.6 million when a UK government cap on housing benefit into force, according to a new report. Under proposals by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Loca

Brian Logan Bield Housing & Care has outlined some details from its new Business Strategy that will secure its long-term future and ensure it can continue to provide high quality housing and associated services for older people in Scotland.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has pledged to set up a state-owned not-for-profit energy company in Scotland to offer cheaper power to homeowners. The SNP leader told the party's conference yesterday that the company will sell energy to customers at "as close to cost price as possible".

Local authorities who do not use their house building funding face losing their allocation altogether, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has warned. Delivering her 2017 conference speech to SNP members yesterday, the party leader repeated the Scottish Government’s commitment to delivering 50,000 affo

Glenn Adcook, chief executive at Osprey; Alex Drummond and Rachel Ross from Bank of Scotland, which provided the private finance, and Gary Walker, chief finance officer at Osprey Osprey Housing has taken possession of the first phase of properties at a new development in Aberdeenshire.

The site of the proposed development at Hopeman Moray councillors have unanimously voted against the building of 22 homes in Hopeman.

An online, mobile friendly ‘I Need Help’ button has been launched which aims to provide immediate help for people in crisis and facing homelessness in Scotland. When someone accesses the button via their mobile phone or online, the geo-positioning enabled tool points people to their nearest help

The Maryhill team which tackled the clean up at Ruchill allotments Staff at Maryhill Housing are stepping up their efforts to give something back to the communities in which they work.

A community group with ambitious plans to repopulate a Scottish island has become the latest organisation to benefit from right to buy powers. Scottish Ministers have given consent to The North West Mull Community Woodland Company to register its interest in purchasing the Isle of Ulva in the Inner

The private rented sector (PRS) has tripled in size since the advent of devolution and its reversal is a goal that Holyrood should “triumph not fear”, a new report has argued. New data on the experience of households in Scotland analysed by think tank Common Weal has revealed that the PRS contin

A plan which will underpin the development of thousands of new affordable homes in South Lanarkshire is being submitted to the Scottish Government after being approved by councillors. Members of the housing and technical resources committee approved South Lanarkshire Council’s new Strategic Housin

Pictured at the new development are (from left) Duncan McIntyre (Midlothian Council planning & implementation officer), Alison White (Midlothian Council head of adult and social care), Kay Gillespie (team manager at the Richmond Fellowship), Councillor Stephen Curran (cabinet member for customer