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Stirling Council has agreed the key priorities to be delivered within the five years of its term (2022-2027).

Pauline Hollinsworth is to leave her position as director of property services at Yorkhill Housing Association after 43 years of service at the landlord. Pauline has spent her entire career with Yorkhill Housing Association. Starting off in admin in 1980, she has worked her way through housing

The cost-of-living crisis and unsettled market conditions have led Stewart Milne Group to pause its efforts to seek its housebuilding business, despite a number of “fruitful discussions” with potential bidders.

Practical completion has been achieved for Glasgow’s largest Passivhaus-certified housing development at Springfield Cross.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) and CIH have criticised the Scottish Government for reducing its funding for the Affordable Supply Programme as part of its 2023-24 Scottish Budget yesterday.

Councillors in Edinburgh have approved the appointment of two chief officer roles into the council’s senior leadership team. Dr Deborah Smart will join as executive director of corporate services and Derek McGowan as service director housing and homelessness.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has now started on the first of 134 new homes at its new Farrier Fields development in Edinburgh.

Investors in People has awarded Wellhouse Housing Association with a silver accreditation. IIP said the award means that the right principles are in place but more than that, it means people and leaders are making active efforts to make sure that there’s real consistency and everyone in t

A major landmark at one of the UK’s most sustainable new housing developments has been reached with the ‘topping out’ of Rowanbank Gardens in Corstorphine, Edinburgh. Structural building work on the final phase of Artisan Real Estate’s 126-apartment development has now been c

Blackwood Housing and Care has appointed a new chief executive following a rigorous recruitment process led by external advisors. Simon Fitzpatrick will be promoted internally to lead the independent living specialist, which has 600 staff and operates more than 1500 properties across 28 local author

A development by housebuilder Scotia Homes featuring new homes all heated from non-fossil fuel sources has been recognised as one of the most sustainable in the UK.

CCG (Scotland) has commenced work on a new planned maintenance contract in Drumchapel with Cernach Housing Association.

An application to demolish a former brass foundry in Glasgow to make way for an eight-storey apartment block is to be decided by the Scottish Government.

Developers are launching £60 million plans to revive a vacant site in Aberdeen city centre. Levelling Up Real Estate wants to create a “buzzing hub of homes” on a huge patch of wasteland left empty for a decade.

A family-run plumbing business has been fined £4,000 after a blind man fell into an open manhole at a sheltered housing development in Banchory.