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Wellbeing and social care charity LinkLiving launched its first Christmas appeal, Sponsor The Sparkle, this week and is inviting businesses to sponsor a lit Christmas star on the charity’s Fife base at West Bridge Mill in Kirkcaldy.

Plans have been submitted for a narrow block of ten apartments on a brownfield gap site in Glasgow's West End. HJV Consultants has enlisted Elder & Cannon Architects to draw up plans for the seven-storey building at Kelbourne Street.

A property developer plans to add to the regeneration of Aberdeen city centre with the acquisition of 181 Union Street.

The process of planning and paying to build renewable energy schemes in Scotland needs to be simpler and less costly to better tackle the climate challenge, according to a senior lawyer who is advising on a number of schemes across the country, as well as acting for landowners. Susan Law, a partner

A regional prosperity framework (RPF) for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region was yesterday endorsed by Fife Council. The RPF is the plan for building the economy of the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region, looking at a range of important issues, setting an app

Lister Housing Co-operative has appointed John Rankin as its new chief executive due to the imminent retirement of its current director Alistair Cant. Mr Rankin joins with a wealth of social housing experience, most recently as head of business support within Viewpoint Housing Association. Prio

Scottish Housing News' #COP26SHN showcase of the social housing sector's efforts to help tackle the climate crisis continues with Andy Moseley, senior policy officer at the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, who makes the case for utilising empty homes as a critical tool in terms of minimis

North Ayrshire Council is to build 1,625 new homes across every part of the region by 2027 as part of a newly-approved Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

Tollcross Housing Association has been granted planning permission to deliver 43 new homes near Tollcross Road. The vacant brownfield site, in Altyre Street, south of Trainard Avenue, was most recently used as an overflow car park for the 2014 Commonwealth Games after three-storey residential f

Plans to build 1,200 new houses across Fife by 2024 have been agreed by councillors.

Councillors in Glasgow have agreed that a large area of land at Carmyle can be developed for housing. Initial plans lodged by AS Carmyle Ltd and New City Vision (Carmyle) Ltd in 2017 called for the redevelopment of land next to River Road, Kenmuir Road and Clydeford Road. Since then,

PhD researcher Khadijah Naeem from Royal Holloway, University of London, highlights how the Covid-19 disproportionately impacts ethnic minorities in overcrowded households.

The Inner House of the Court of Session has refused a reclaiming motion by a development company ordered to pay over £200,000 to a project management firm it contracted to manage a development in Aberdeen after being found in breach of contract.

Future steps the Scottish Government should take to deliver a lasting legacy for the energy transition have been outlined in a new publication launched today by industry body Scottish Renewables.

Supply chain disruption, material price inflation and a shortage of skilled labour continued to intensify during the third quarter of 2021, which could challenge strong workloads led by new infrastructure schemes underway across the United Kingdom, according to a survey by the Royal Institution of C