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Legislation to ban developers from using combustible cladding on high-rise buildings has been laid before the Scottish Parliament today. As reported by Scottish Housing News earlier this month, the Scottish Government wants to ban the use of combustible materials on all new residential and &lsq

Blackwood has drafted in game developers to give a fun and interactive twist to living and working in a trio of its communities. The team at Hyper Luminal normally create entertainment games for Xbox, PlayStation and iPhone - but were challenged to gamify everyday life and encourage thousands o

New plans have been drawn up for a block of flats on the site of a former health centre on behalf of New Gorbals Housing Association.

Inverclyde-based housing association River Clyde Homes has launched a financial wellbeing advice newsletter to help its customers through these challenging times.

The cost of living crisis is fuelling demand for advice and information that, in some cases, have not seen since the early weeks of the Covid-19 pandemic, new data from Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has suggested. The charity’s monthly data report for February 2022 reveals that the online adv

Heimstaden Bostad AB has agreed to fund and acquire PLATFORM_’s 464-home residential project in Edinburgh for £124.4 million.

Trust Housing Association has recently completed a refinancing exercise, securing £22 million of bond finance from bLEND Funding Plc to support the delivery of its three-year business strategy, the Time is Now. bLEND is an A2 rated Social Bond programme providing bond finance to housing associ

Glasgow City Council has rejected plans for a block of flats beside the Forth and Clyde Canal near Firhill.

Initial plans have been submitted for a new office block and flats development at Site 6 of the Dundee Waterfront.

The Scottish Government has overruled Perth & Kinross Council to give permission to Ogilvie Homes to build a new housing development in West Kinfauns. Ogilvie Homes initiated an appeal after failing to secure permission for 15 homes at Walnut Grove.

Barratt Developments Scotland - which includes Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Oregon Timber Frame Ltd – is donating £50,000 to charities fighting homelessness across Scotland. Five charities spanning the length and breadth of Scotland have received a share of the funds, which will

Thousands of Scots are not seeking help with debt and money worries due to a “misplaced sense of shame”, the country’s national advice service has warned.

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has published three updated factsheets for tenants and social landlords about complaints and significant performance failures. The factsheets give information to tenants about making a complaint about a social landlord, and about how to contact the regulator abou

Following the closure of its offices in Aberdeen and Elgin in March 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Langstane Housing Association is pleased to announce that its doors are now re-opening to tenants and the general public. With effect from Wednesday 20th April, the association's Aberdeen office, b

Stewart Milne Group has put its housebuilding business up for sale after its founder and main shareholder decided to retire nearly half a century after founding the Aberdeen-based company. Stewart Milne, who is executive chairman of Stewart Milne Homes, said the time is right to spend more time with