Scottish Housing News
2024年12月20日 · Blackwood Housing and Care is set to embark on a new strategic journey, after announcing Jason MacGilp as its incoming chief executive. The leadership transition comes as Simon Fitzpatrick departs after a two-year tenure.
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2024年12月20日 · Miller Homes has agreed to buy English housebuilder St Modwen Homes. The deal sees Miller Homes acquire 19 live sites, totalling around 3,500 plots for new homes, and a further five strategic sites, growing its business in the West Midlands, East Midlands and South regions and entering the South Wes
Scottish Housing News
2024年12月10日 · In the latest article in the ongoing Our Housing Heritage series, Scottish Housing News discusses the Glasgow Rent Strikes of 1915. In the absence of social housing, families across the UK in 1915 were at the mercy of private landlords who could hike rents and evict tenants at will with little restr
Rent controls and new duties at centre of new housing bill
2024年3月28日 · The Housing (Scotland) Bill will introduce an ‘ask and act’ duty on social landlords and bodies, such as health boards and the police, to ask about a person’s housing situation and act to avoid them becoming homeless wherever possible.. It also reforms provision for people threatened with homelessness up to six months ahead and includes provisions for tenants experiencing domestic abuse.
Housing crisis set to deepen even further as Scottish Budget passed
2024年2月28日 · The Budget includes more than £1.3 billion for the Wellbeing Economy, £1bn for the road network, around £2.7bn for public transport and active travel, almost £556 million in the Affordable Housing Supply Programme, more than £400m for energy efficiency upgrades and to promote the circular economy, and an increase of £128m to the education and skills budget.
Sector responds to new home delivery figures as new research …
2024年6月26日 · According to the latest Scottish Government figures released yesterday, there were 3,378 homes completed by housing associations in 2023-24 which represents a 33% drop from the previous year’s total of 5,016 homes.. Figures also showed that the number of homes started and completed in 2023-24 were down in every sector including local …
New statistics show ‘worrying’ drop in housing starts but ‘welcome ...
2023年1月25日 · Quarterly statistics on housebuilding and affordable housing supply, published yesterday by Scotland’s Chief Statistician, revealed there were 21,825 all-sector new build homes completed in Scotland in the year to end of June 2022. This is an increase of 9% (1,806 homes) on the 20,019 completions in the previous year.
More than a quarter of Scotland’s households in housing need
2024年1月22日 · A comprehensive survey into the housing needs of the population has found that more than a quarter (28%) of households in Scotland do not live in accommodation that adequately meets their needs.
CIH Scotland publishes new paper on what the housing sector …
2024年2月7日 · The Scottish Government is expected to introduce a new Housing Bill ahead of the Parliament’s summer recess which is anticipated to cover some of the commitments set out in Housing to 2040 and the draft rented sector strategy, A New Deal for Tenants.. While the detail of the Bill is still being developed, it is expected to include:
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Wemyss and March Estates, together with land-promoter Socially Conscious Capital, has been named by The King’s Foundation as the 2024 winner of its prestigious, UK-wide 'Landowner Award' for its visionary approach to development at Longniddry in East Lothian.