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A sod-cutting ceremony has taken place to mark the start of a new North Lanarkshire Council housing development in Bellshill, which will see 29 new affordable homes for rent built in the heart of the local community.

Stirling Council’s in-house build team has completed the construction of 11 new affordable houses at Catherine Street in Bannockburn. The new energy efficient properties were constructed with the support of Scottish Government grant funding and will be fitted with solar panels as well as batte

A ground-breaking project to install one of the country’s most innovative and sustainable heating systems at the Clyde Gateway regeneration programme has been completed in partnership with Scottish Water Horizons. The state-of-the-art district heating network at the Clyde Gateway site in Glasg

Bulb, the UK’s seventh largest energy provider, has announced that it will be entering special administration.

The Scottish Government’s housebuilding strategy is at risk of being derailed by chronic shortages of skills and labour, a senior construction industry expert has warned. Ryan Gilluley, managing director of cost and claim consultants GCM Ltd, said several projects have already been hampered by

Older people in Scotland deserve more choice over specialist housing and care options, according to a new group established by ARCO and Sovereign Property Partnership. Currently, older people in Scotland have less than a tenth of the provision available to them compared to New Zealand, the USA, Cana

Business leaders, public sector and community representatives came together yesterday to discuss the housing crisis in Badenoch & Strathspey with Kate Forbes, the Highland MSP who is also cabinet secretary for finance and economy, and Shona Robison MSP, cabinet secretary for social justice,

The Highland Council is working in partnership with the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership to proactively bring privately-owned empty homes across the Highlands back into use. With funding support from the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership, the council has been able to employ Jonathan Henderson as its

Gas network company SGN has published a roadmap for how hydrogen can play a leading role in delivering the Scottish Government’s target of one million homes with low carbon heat by 2030. The research, published with global consulting and engineering advisor Wood, sets out a transformational an

Policies governing the development of Scotland’s cities, towns and rural areas until 2045 are to be scrutinised across several Scottish Parliament committees. The fourth National Planning Framework sets out the Scottish Government’s strategy for Scotland’s long-term development and

An online tool designed to help people in Scotland to boost incomes, cut costs and save money is one year old today. Moneymap.scot, launched on November 23 last year by Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS), is the only tool of its kind in Scotland enabling people to self-help by identifying ways to help e

The Scottish home building sector’s top honours for this year have been revealed, with Barratt and David Wilson Homes awarded Home Builder of the Year and Wheatley Group awarded RSL of the Year by trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS). Announced virtually for the first time, with the programme f

A new round of a £2 million fund that will help social landlords to support tenants who are struggling with fuel poverty has now opened for applications.

An official sod-cutting ceremony has been carried out in Drymen, Stirlingshire to mark the start of one of Scotland’s first social housing developments to be built to Passivhaus standards as Cruden Building (West) builds 15 affordable and innovative new homes on behalf of Hanover (Scotland). T

The transformation of a former derelict pub site in Paisley into 36 new-build flats has been completed by building and construction firm The JR Group.