News

Scottish households and businesses are set to benefit from a clearer, more reliable framework on how to make homes, offices and places of leisure more energy efficient, as work begins on a new national approach to identify suitable improvements to buildings, including a move to low carbon heating.

South Ayrshire Council has formally agreed to return almost £6 million in education contributions to a housing developer, after ruling that the school‑capacity expansion the money was intended to fund is no longer required.

Places for People (PfP) has become the first housing association to partner with Britain’s walking charity, The Ramblers.

Miller Homes Scotland West has acquired a 7.5-acre site in Hamilton, paving the way for the delivery of 64 energy-efficient homes and marking a significant milestone as the homebuilder celebrates 25 years of building communities in South Lanarkshire. The new development, Maplebrook, reflects Miller

A new draft Highland Council Participation and Engagement Strategy is being issued for comment and input to ensure the strategy reflects the needs of as many people as possible across Highland. The Strategy sets out how the council will engage with and listen to communities in order to inform how it

Almond Housing Association has welcomed HomeAid West Lothian into its building, as the charity opened a new furniture and thrift store in Craigshill. Over the past few years, Almond and HomeAid have worked together on a variety of initiatives, including supporting tenants with household essentials.

Glen Oaks Housing Association has once again achieved the prestigious Customer Service Excellence (CSE) accreditation – a national mark of outstanding service. This year, Glen Oaks secured nine Compliance Plus ratings, including six for tenant participation, engagement, and scrutiny, demonstra

West of Scotland Housing Association has secured planning and listed building consent for the Grade B-listed Station House at 34-36 St Enoch Square to undergo a multi-million-pound conversion into homes for mid-market rent.

North Ayrshire Homelessness Prevention Partnership has launched a joint project that will develop new ways to help prevent homelessness in the private sector.

Communities from Shetland to Dumfries & Galloway have benefited from more than £19 million in government funding to help make social housing more energy efficient and cleaner to heat. Allocations from the latest funding round of the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund show that 27 projects a

Plans to develop a Rural and Island Housing Grant Scheme, with an indicative budget of up to £20 million over four years, have been announced by first minister John Swinney. Designed to help with costs in rural and island communities, the scheme will enable people, including first-time buyers

The City of Edinburgh Council holds no evidence that its Short-Term Let Planning Control Area has delivered any measurable improvement in housing supply, affordability or market outcomes since it was introduced in 2022, the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers (ASSC) has found. In a Freedom

Glasgow City Council has approved the off-market disposal of land at sites in Drumry and Maryhill to Wheatley Group. Approved at the local authority's Contracts & Property Committee last week, the first disposal was for the site of the former Maryhill Hub and adjacent land on Wyndford Road.

A major development in Leith by CCG Homes has been purchased by the City of Edinburgh Council in a £30.5 million deal that will see it repurposed to deliver a much-needed mix of affordable housing tenures.

Preparations are being made ahead of the closure of an Inverclyde temporary accommodation facility, with access to homelessness services now being provided by a 24-hour-a-day phone line. The Inverclyde Centre on Dalrymple Street is currently being wound down as part of a planned shutdown of the buil