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Scottish Housing : Residential Buildings Scotland

New Housebuilding in Scotland, UK – Building Links

post updated 15 September 2026

post updated 4 September 2021

Scottish Housing Shortfall

Increase from existing 25,000 new houses per year to 35,000 demanded for Scotland. Communities & Sport Minister said the “current rate of new house building – almost 25,000 new houses last year – is simply inadequate”.

It’s essential the majority of this supply is located in dense developments on brownfield land; the planning system also requires immediate root & branch reform.

Latest Residential Development in Scotland

19 Apr 2018
Sighthill Regeneration – Transformational Regeneration Area
Glasgow Housing
Glasgow City Council has signed an agreement with Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) and Keepmoat Homes to deliver more than 800 new homes at the Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) in the city. Keepmoat will work with independent consultancy LDA Design to bring forward the new development.

8 Oct 2020
Residential Market in Scotland News
The residential market in Scotland is bubbling away as buyers escape the lockdown straitjacket, but is it also on the point of creating a price bubble?
– post by Eric Curran

There is, I am sure, a more measured and professional way of saying this, and in more normal times I would instinctively reach for it, but the stark fact of the matter is that the residential housing market in Scotland has gone nuts.
Edinburgh Housing

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Housing in Scotland

Recent key Scottish properties on e-architect:

23 Mar 2017
Homes for Scotland Awards News
Homes for Scotland Awards

19 Apr 2016
St Peter’s School Housing, Partick, south west Glasgow, west Scotland
Design: Collective Architecture

image courtesy of architects office
St Peter’s School Housing in Partick, Glasgow
Collective Architecture submit Planning Application for Conversion and New Build housing development of St Peter’s School, Partick, Strathclyde. The proposals for Partick Housing Association include part conversion of the existing school to deliver 60 new homes for social rent, mid-market rent and supported accommodation.

2 Dec 2015
Ronald McDonald House, Glasgow
Design: Keppie

photo from architects studio
Ronald McDonald House Glasgow
Internally the environment will be light, airy and welcoming with ceilings following the external roofline to provide added drama to internal communal spaces. A calming domestic environment throughout will be achieved through carefully chosen materials and fixtures.

Commonwealth Games Athletes Village, Glasgow
Design: RMJM with various architects

photograph courtesy of City Legacy

Commonwealth Games Athletes Village
Only properties that produce 60 percent fewer carbon emissions than traditionally-built structures are awarded an ‘excellent’ rating. The building envelope is an important part of achieving this because high levels of air tightness at critical areas such as roof eaves and ridge can significantly affect the overall energy efficiency of the building.

image from developer
Glasgow Harbour

Glasgow tower blocks

photo © Adrian Welch

Major Glasgow Housing masterplans

Crown Street Homes
Crown Street
Crown Street Phases 5 & 6 are the final phases of the critically acclaimed New Gorbals redevelopment in conjunction with Redrow Homes. Comprising a total of 203 town houses, flats and duplex apartments, this completion of the New Gorbals masterplan follows on from the success of Hypostyle’s earlier Phase 2B development.

21 Feb 2013
St Andrews Housing, Fife, eastern Scotland
Design: Sutherland Hussey Architects

pictures from Sutherland Hussey architects
St Andrews Housing
Architectural competition to design a new housing development in this historic Scottish town. By inviting several firms to develop proposals, the Client’s ambition was to select a design that can provide high quality contemporary houses and apartments in the rich and complex conservation area.

Glasgow Housing

Edinburgh Housing

Key contemporary Scottish Housing Project

photo © Andrew Lee
Homes for the Future

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Scottish Housing Projects – Selection

Major Glasgow Housing masterplans
Glasgow Harbour

Todlaw Supported Housing, Duns, Berwickshire
Todlaw Housing

Cart Street Housing, Glasgow
Cart Street housing

Springside, Edinburgh

image from architects
Springside Housing – featured on the Edinburgh Architecture site

Recent Glasgow Housing projects – featured on the Glasgow Architecture website

Crown Street Housing

Cochrane Square

Festival Park Apartments

Glasgow Cross

Queen Elizabeth Square

River Heights, Lancefeild Quay

Recent Edinburgh Housing projects – featured on the Edinburgh Architecture website

Donaldsons College redevelopment

Anchor Apartments

New Street Edinburgh – Calton Gate

Scottish Housing – Background
Scottish housing stock generally varies from wee bungalows to sixties high rises; in the Highlands traditional crofts mingle with new properties which often look like they could be from anywhere ie non-indigenous. After the Second World War a massive housing construction commenced in Scotland (& across Europe) with slab blocks and tower blocks mostly located around the edges of the major cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh, and in New Towns in the Central Belt such as Cumbernauld.

glasgow tower blocks – image © Adrian Welch

In the Seventies this major building programme stalled and low-scale dense
housing took its place, mainly built by private housing developers. Styling was generally regressive but in the Nineties some more contemporary Scottish housing emerged. Notable were the Homes for the Future scheme in Glasgow and the Slateford Green housing in Edinburgh. One-off houses such as those by Richard Murphy also encouraged a shift in thinking towards contemporary architecture.

Tower Block
Modern Public Housing in England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland (Paul Mellon Centre)
Stefan Muthesius, Miles Glendinning
Price varies
Hardcover 428 pages (1994) Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300054440

Glasgow Houses

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Housing in Scotland – Selection, no images

George St & Broomlands St housing, Paisley, Renfrewshire
2003
Page & Park Architects
Housing development for Loretto Housing Association

Inchyra Place – housing, Grangemouth
2003
Page & Park Architects
50 houses for Loretto Housing Association

Stanley Mills – conversion + restoration, Stanley, Perth & Kinross
1996-2003
LDN Architects
A Listed
Converted to flats + houses for The Phoenix Trust

Victoria Parade residential development, Dunoon, Argyll & Bute
2003
Elder & Cannon
For Fyne Homes / Queens Cross Housing Association

Scottish House

Location: Scotland.

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