Quarterly affordable housing supply statistics are used to inform progress against Scottish Government affordable housing delivery targets, in which the ambition is to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032, of which at least 70% will be for social rent and 10% will be in remote...
In 2016 the Scottish Government set a laudable but challenging target of 50,000 new ‘affordable’ homes to be completed by 2021, 35,000 of which were to be for social rent. Since then, the combined efforts of the local authorities and Registered Social Landlords...
Brick by Brick has a target of half of its housing being ‘affordable’. It is unclear how the status of such housing would be affected were it to be sold off. Government retreat on planning reform raises ‘rabbit hutch’ fears The government is set to revise its...
Shona Robison asserted the Scottish Government had built 117,000 new homes since 2007. The Scottish Government’s commitment is, working with partners, to deliver 110,000 affordable homes by 2032. Of this total, the target is that
“We accept the CCC’s recent re-articulation that this parliament’s interim 2030 target is out of reach.”—Màiri McAllan Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy, April 18th2024 The move is a significant climbdown from a government which was one of the first in the...
The Scottish Government has set ambitious climate change targets, with Scotland’s 2019 Climate Change Act enshrining in law a target for net-zero emissions of all greenhouses gases by 2045 at the latest – and an interim target of a 75% reduction by 2030. Not only are Scotland’s...
A site currently promoting awareness and debate of how the poorest students in Scotland face the highest government debt: "essential reading for a critical commentary on the funding of Scottish higher education" Wonkhe
‘Call for Ideas’ is taking us in an innovation-led direction. Our government and city’s like Edinburgh need to champion and embrace private development to facilitate this. We should be rewarding landowners and developers who want to go green with mor...