Tomduie Clachan, an RHS Smart Clachan pilot, is a zero-carbon 100% affordable, co-housing scheme that will be the innovation flagship in ongoing efforts to establish Comrie Croft as Scotland’s foremost demonstration and visitor learning centre for rural regeneration and future living. Modelled on a traditional Scottish clachan, reimagined for the 21st Century, Tomduie will demonstratecontinue reading
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European Rural Parliament 2022
In this blog, our Communications Assistant, Kirsten, tells us about her experience when she attended the European Rural Parliament in Poland last month. In September, I was delighted to have the opportunity to join the Scottish delegation attending the 5th European Rural Parliament (ERP) in Kielce, Poland – a gathering of 400 rural people, includingcontinue reading
Sustainable Rural Housing for the Future | Sam Foster
Sam Foster is an architect working with Architype. His experience includes six years at Gaia Architects, nine years running his own practice and two years at Rural Housing Scotland as project manager for community-led affordable housing projects in rural Scotland – all of which focused on low-energy design using natural, non-toxic and low embodied carboncontinue reading
Scottish Housing Day: The Rural Energy Crisis – Q&A with Energy Advisor, Donnie MacKay
From food to heating, cost of living is already disproportionately high in rural and island areas. As energy prices continue to soar, the outlook for rural communities is extremely concerning. Last year, on Scottish Housing Day, we shared two blogs which explored the reasons that rural homes are often far less energy efficient than thosecontinue reading
Planning approved for community-led housing development in Braemar
We are delighted that planning permission has been secured for 15 new affordable homes in Braemar. The community-led housing development, which has received significant financial support from Cairngorms National Park Authority, The Scottish Land Fund and charity loan funder CAF Venturesome, was designed following extensive consultation with Braemar community. Delivery of the much-needed homes, whichcontinue reading
Community views sought as new development officer starts work to deliver Smart Clachan project on Isle of Uist
A development officer has started work for Rural Housing Scotland to take a new housing initiative forward in Uist. Donna Young, from Uist, will be coordinating the delivery of Smart Clachan, a community based housing development to support repopulation, by creating affordable housing and shared facilities. Rural Housing Scotland is working in partnership with Stòras Uibhist tocontinue reading
Smart Clachan initiative offers sustainable housing solution for Uist
Rural Housing Scotland will lead the development of an ambitious new initiative to tackle the interlinked issues of depopulation, demographic change and the climate crisis in Uist. In partnership with community landowner Stòras Uibhist and with funding from Emsée Fairbairn Foundation, Rural Housing Scotland plan to develop Smart Clachan which will incorporate cooperative community-led housing,continue reading
Scottish Housing Day (Part 2) – The realities of trying to improve home energy efficiency in our remote rural and island communities
This year, Scottish Housing Day is focused on the role of housing in the climate emergency. We have released two blogs on this theme. You can read our first Scottish Housing Day blog here. Our homes are responsible for 13% of Scotland’s emissions which means, in order to meet our ambitious net-zero targets, we needcontinue reading
Scottish Housing Day (Part 1) – Home energy improvement challenges in rural and island communities
With COP26 just around the corner, this year’s Scottish Housing Day is focused on the role of housing in the climate emergency. With this theme in mind, we have released two blogs looking at the difficulties rural households can face to implement important energy efficiency improvements. You can read our second blog here. Our homescontinue reading