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Around six million people with disabilities in the UK will receive their one-off £150 disability Cost of Living payment from 20 September, the government has confirmed this week. Those being paid a qualifying disability benefit will be paid automatically from 20 September, with the vast majori

Miller Homes has announced a new 61-home community in the Highstonehall Park area of Hamilton. The new development marks Miller’s tenth in the Lanarkshire area in the past five years, reinforcing the high demand for new build homes in the region. Sitting on the southern edge of the town, the n

The Scottish Government has announced that thousands of businesses can now apply for up to £15,000 to help retrain and upskill their workforce. The Flexible Workforce Development Fund provides workers in organisations of all sizes with access to training courses through local colleges, the Ope

A new housing project at 68-78 Townhead in Kirkintilloch is underway to transform a vacant office building into eight high quality affordable homes available for rent from Caledonia Housing Association. This is the first restoration development of this type by Caledonia in East Dunbartonshire.

Residents of Coronation Gardens were greeted by Angus councillors and officers in Montrose as they moved into their new homes at Coronation Gardens. Representing a £1.4 million investment in council housing, the development makes use of vacant land at Forties Road that was part of Rosehill Res

Construction firm City Building is leading the charge on reducing the construction industry’s carbon emissions by upskilling its workforce on renewable and sustainable building technologies. The company, a 50/50 joint venture between Glasgow City Council and Wheatley Group, has been suppo

New figures show Scotland’s public finances are recovering from the coronavirus pandemic faster than the UK as a whole. The Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) 2021-22 statistics show Scotland’s deficit fell by 10.3%– compared to a drop of 8.4% for the UK.

Developers have lodged plans to create a residential project for self-build plots on land at the edge of Bridge of Allan. Magnus Beresford Ltd & Keir Estates Ltd have submitted a PAN (proposal of application notice) to Stirling Council regarding more than two acres of land at Lecropt.

An empty listed building in Bridge of Allan could be transformed into flats after plans for a care home at the site failed to gain planning approval. Mansion Holdings Properties (1) Ltd has submitted a listed building consent application to Stirling Council for the early Victorian property at 1

An "ambitious and transformational" plan for the future of the Cairngorms National Park has been unveiled that aims to deliver increased affordable housing to help young people to stay in the area. Launched yesterday by Lorna Slater MSP, minister for green skills, circular economy and

Glasgow's Liveable Neighbourhoods are set to reduce the city's car dependency by transforming streets into safer, more attractive spaces where everyday needs can be met locally and where people travelling actively and by public transport are prioritised. The climate crisis and recent pandemic have b

A £4 million package to help support communities with spiralling energy bills and the cost of living crisis has been approved by North Ayrshire Council’s cabinet. The wide-ranging measures will focus on providing extra payments to more than 3,000 families on low income while developing a

Midlothian Council has agreed a target of 20 wheelchair-accessible homes to be built in the county annually. Half would be social housing delivered by either the council or its partners while the other ten would be private sector homes.

Midlothian Council is facing a budget gap of £14.4 million for 2023/24, rising to a projected £27.1m by 2027/28. In a financial update presented to a meeting of the full council on Tuesday (August 23), councillors were advised that the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review

The establishment of a new cross-party Climate Change and Sustainability Forum was approved at yesterday's full East Lothian Council meeting. In 2020 East Lothian Council published its Climate Change Strategy which sets out the council’s commitment to tackling the Climate Emergency at a local