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Most of Scotland's councils have maintained or improved their delivery of vital benefits during the Covid-19 pandemic, despite short-staffing and major disruptions from having to abruptly move to home or remote working. In a report published today, the Accounts Commission, which reports on the perfo

Under One Roof has teamed up with SafeDeposits Scotland Charitable Trust to produce a full webinar programme schedule for private landlords and letting agents in Scotland. The webinar series, which launched in August, has already covered issues such as noise reduction and cladding, an

A student housing shortage has left hundreds of students in Scotland with nowhere to live for the first few weeks of their degree. The National Union of Students (NUS) for Scotland has highlighted that students are being forced to pay sky-high rents, experience homelessness, drop out or defer b

Arc-Tech MU has commenced the installation of multi-utilities at a major regeneration scheme in Granton.

Homelessness charity Cyrenians welcomed Kevin Stewart, minister for mental wellbeing and social care, to the Royal Edinburgh Hospital Community Gardens this week to help mark World Mental Health Day on October 10.

The community-led restoration of the Category B listed former Police Station in Langholm is one of three projects shortlisted in the Housing and Regeneration category of this year’s SURF Awards.

Tens of thousands of unpaid carers will receive a double payment of the Carer’s Allowance Supplement this winter under legislation passed unanimously by the Scottish Parliament. Recognising the additional pressures unpaid carers face as a result of the pandemic, the December payment of the Car

Aberdeenshire Council has granted full planning permission for five new houses including an affordable unit on the site of a former bar in Stonehaven. The buildings at Lairhillock Inn in Netherley will be demolished to make way for the homes.

Councillors have agreed that the residential phase of a major mixed-use project at Inchmarlo can be delivered in the first phase of development despite fears that the hotel element may never materialise.

East Lothian Council’s Planning Committee approved plans for three housing developments this week including an application by East Lothian Housing Association for 27 flats for social rent in Dunbar. The application, which is on the former garden ground at the St Andrews Centre on Bayswell Road

Work has commenced on the construction of 57 affordable homes in a prime location within Midlothian, being built by CALA Homes (East) on behalf of Dunedin Canmore. Comprising 16 cottage flats, 13 terraced homes and 28 apartments, the homes form part of the wider Mauricewood Masterplan in Penicuik an

A public consultation is set to begin into plans for a major new residential development at Chesser in Edinburgh. Announced last month by Watkin Jones Group, the proposed mixed-use brownfield development to the rear of the Corn Exchange will comprise primarily of build-to-rent (BTR) homes, incl

Having spent two decades trying to reduce tenant fuel poverty and make a tiny contribution to slowing the climate crisis, Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association CEO Neil Clapperton thinks he might have found a solution. Maitland Mackie of ice cream fame gifted me two things: two inches on m

Tenants of Queens Cross Housing Association can now call on a free bulk uplift waste service.

The award-winning Queens Quay Heat Pump Energy Centre is providing low-carbon heating to the first phases of the £250 million Clydebank-based development and members of West Dunbartonshire Council, Vital Energi and Star Renewables recently gathered to celebrate the achievement at an official o