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Clarion Housing Group has apologised to its tenants after an ITV investigation revealed squalid conditions inside hundreds of properties on a housing estate in south London.  Families living on the Eastfields Estate in Mitcham have been left to live with severe damp, leaks, rodents and oth

Clackmannanshire Council has been ranked as the best performing local authority in Scotland when it comes to rent loss due to empty properties, as well as a number of other indicators. Having improved its performance across a range of measures in the 2019/20 financial year, Clackmanna

Allanwater Homes has revealed plans to build a 275-home development on the outskirts of Alva. The three, four, and five-bedroom homes – including roads, footpaths, landscaping, drainage and associated works on a greenfield site, are proposed for land on either side of the A91 to the west

A public consultation has opened into proposals for a mixed-use development containing 55 residential flats and ten commercial units on a small plot at Granton Harbour.

Taylor Wimpey has lodged a Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) with Angus Council to add 50 more homes to its Victoria Grange development in Monifieth. The housebuilder said developing a slice of land between the existing site and the A92 is a “logical” extension to the 3

Cater Group's planning application for the former Maryfield House in Aberdeen has now been validated, revealing residential plans for the former care home.

A new report that details the process for evictions in the social housing sector and highlights the work that housing associations and co-operatives carry out to help tenants to remain in their homes has been released today by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA). Last year, as a r

Consulting engineer Will Rudd Davidson (Edinburgh) has completed complex engineering works at Dumbarton Harbour to provide waterfront access for the first time in 150 years and enable the delivery of almost 200 affordable homes.

Tenants have moved into the first phase of new homes on the Isle of Lewis delivered by Hebridean Housing Partnership.

Angus Council is to take ownership of Invertay House and the surrounding grounds in Monifieth to develop new affordable homes. Agreed by the communities committee earlier this year, the development is included in the Angus Strategic Housing Investment Plan, which is a five-year plan setting out

The Scottish Government’s Private Rented Sector Resilience Group should include a role for tenant’s unions, the Scottish Greens have said. The party’s co-leader Patrick Harvie raised the issue in the Scottish Parliament after he said the insecurity of the private rented sector

HMRC was wrong to refuse a backdated claim for child tax credits for asylum seekers who had been granted refugee status, a judge in the Court of Session has ruled in the first successful social security test case for asylum seekers and tax credits in the UK.

North Ayrshire Council has approved a number of funding proposals totalling around £70 million that will help drive its post-Covid-19 regeneration and recovery ambitions. Cabinet members approved over £14m of council investment in Recovery and Renewal projects that will support communiti

Plans to build 185 new homes in a West Lothian village have been granted conditional approval. The new homes will be developed at a site on Barbuchlaw Burn and land south of Craiginn Terrace in Blackridge, south of Craiginn Terrace.

Scottish Water Horizons has launched a new service to support housing developers with remediating unvested water and waste water assets across Scotland.