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Highland Council has agreed a number of strategic objectives with the aim of finding solutions to a Highland Housing Challenge.

Minister for public finance Ivan McKee MSP and chief planner Dr Fiona Simpson have issued a letter to stakeholders regarding planning for housing.

A plan to build flats at the site of a former care home in Glasgow has been given the go-ahead. Wheatley Group has been given permission to develop the land at Forfar Avenue, Cardonald, beside a bowling club.

Heung-Min Son, one of Korea’s most famous footballers, is backing the Seoul 2024 Homeless World Cup’s #passforhome challenge and adding his support to raise awareness ahead of the tournament taking place in Korea’s capital in September this year. The Tottenham Hotspur captain, who

A new campaign has been launched to highlight the vital role that design plays in creating successful places across Scotland. Architecture and Design Scotland, Scotland’s design agency for place, launched the Value of Design campaign to showcase how thoughtful design can transform communities,

The inaugural winner of the Accessibility and Inclusion Award, sponsored by Horizon Housing Association, was announced at the Scottish Home Awards 2024. Primrose Place, Alloa, a partnership between Campion Homes and Kingdom Housing Association, became the first winner of the prestigious award which

A manager who embezzled just over £40,000 from vulnerable residents at a social care charity has been imprisoned for 12 months.

Specialist safety consultancy Housing H&S Compliance UK Ltd has released its training calendar for the second half of the year which contains a jam-packed schedule of public training sessions centred around tenant and resident safety. All of the training courses have been developed specifically

A new free eye care clinic for people experiencing homelessness opened this week at Crisis Skylight Centre in Edinburgh, the first such clinic outside of England. The clinic, run by eye health charity Vision Care for Homeless People (VCHP), will operate from the new Wellness Floor at the Skylight in

Housing minister Paul McLennan will today outline measures in the Housing Bill aimed at preventing domestic abuse survivors from becoming homeless. He will tell the Scottish Parliament’s Social Justice and Social Security committee that the legislation, if passed, would require all social land

Students in Glasgow could be faced with paying close to £5,000 more for accommodation than their counterparts in Aberdeen in the next academic year, according to new data from real estate advisor CBRE. CBRE analysed the Purpose-Built Student Accommodation Sector (PBSA) in the UK’s 30 maj

Dundee City Council will not be the next local authority to declare a housing emergency after a bid to make the declaration was blocked for a second time.

MSPs have backed a range of technical updates to the short-term lets licensing scheme in response to engagement with accommodation operators.

Land for sale at Toll Roundabout in Livingston could be sold to Cruden Homes Limited for £4.9 million. The 2.88-hectare site sits on land east of the Toll Roundabout in the Kirkton area of Livingston. The site is allocated for residential development in the West Lothian Local Development Plan

Angus Council is inviting residents, landlords and businesses to have their say on the Draft Angus Local Heat & Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) and Delivery Plan. The Angus Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy is a long-term strategic framework for: