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Dumfries and Galloway Council is set to chart the course for sustainable housing development for tears to come with the agreement of its Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

Kingdom Initiatives and the University of St Andrews are celebrating the handover of 22 new affordable homes in the town as the first phase of an exciting new ‘university village’ completes. Working in partnership for the first time, this pioneering project at The Grange will offer much-

Work is underway on a new development of council housing which will provide affordable properties for rent in Cumbernauld.

Subscribers to our sister publication Scottish Housing News passed the 11k milestone last month with 225 new readers of the free daily newsletter for Scotland's dynamic social housing sector taking the subscribers' total to 11,050. Daily subscribers have grown by an impressive 23% in the last year w

Glasgow City Council’s ambition to regenerate the Clyde Waterfront took a further step forward with the topping out ceremony for Dandara Living’s new Granary Quay development at Glasgow Harbour. Situated on the site of former grain warehouses, Granary Quay is a build-to-rent development

The head of a real estate agency which claimed to have sold a flat to a dog has been arrested in Iran. The arrest came after the agency published a video showing a couple signing over their home to a small white dog named Chester, The Jerusalem Post reports.

Environmental services company Recycl8 has been awarded with a six-figure grant from the Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund (LCMCF). This LCMCF is facilitated by Scottish Enterprise as part of the Scottish Government’s initiative, ‘Making Scotland’s Future’, to promote l

Perth & Kinross Council (PKC) has become the first place in the world to use spiral-flow battery technology to reduce its carbon footprint. Designed, developed and manufactured by StorTera, an Edinburgh-based developer of intelligent energy storage solutions, the project aims to develop a protot

At the launch of its development of new homes for sale in South Queensferry, Taylor Wimpey East Scotland teamed up with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to donate £25 for each new home sold and legally completed at Hawthorn Gardens. The latest tranche of £1,525 was donated this mo

The barriers faced by ex-offenders looking to kick-start their lives with a career in construction are at the centre of a Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) survey. CIOB is appealing to built environment professionals to take part in its latest research study, promoting the possibility of reduci

Moving and handling heavy or bulky objects on construction sites is needlessly harming the health of tens of thousands of workers every year, the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has warned. Working in construction is a physically demanding job and many construction workers’ health is sufferi

As the doors and sash windows close on the 11th Edinburgh Traditional Building Festival, organisers at the Edinburgh Traditional Building Forum hailed it a great success.

Dandara Aberdeen is to continue its support of an Aberdeenshire sports and community centre by renewing its sponsorship of its annual 10K road race.

Glasgow City Council has announced £5.57 million of funding to regenerate five vacant land projects after a report confirmed the continued fall in derelict sites in the city. The fall in derelict and vacant land between 2021 and 2022 was 32 hectares (4% of the total), down to 848 hec

Scottish housing minister Paul McLennan visited Hillcrest’s Cove development on Tuesday to mark the official opening of another phase of affordable homes. The Cove development, constructed by Stewart Milne Homes and situated with picturesque views overlooking the sea at Falkland Avenue, repres