Lar Housing Trust

LAR Housing Trust has been granted planning permission for what it describes as its most ambitious project to date.

Housing charity LAR has welcomed a debate that highlights the need for more organisations to copy its loan-funding model to develop good quality affordable rented accommodation in Scotland. LAR was very interested to read ideas put forward by think tank Common Weal in Scottish Construction Now 

LAR Housing Trust has appointed Clark Contracts to Lot 2 of its £20 million construction framework. This lot of the framework, which will run for the next four years, covers the design and build of complex residential projects, which might include restricted and challenging sites and existing

LAR Housing Trust has submitted plans to transform a fire damaged B-listed tenement building at Glasgow Green into 45 affordable flats. The roof of the former hotel at Greenhead Street, which was known as the Inn on the Green, was destroyed by fire in 2014.

LAR Housing Trust has completed a tendering process for its £20 million construction framework. The design and build framework, which will last for a four-year term, is split into two lots and generated considerable interest in the sector.

Councillors have been asked to reject plans for 30 affordable homes in the west of Aberdeen.

Housing minister Kevin Stewart MSP officially opened LAR Housing Trust's biggest housing development to date following work carried out by Clark Contracts. Westwood House in the west end of Edinburgh is housing charity LAR’s first commercial to residential conversion and its lar

LAR Housing Trust’s bid to deliver affordable homes on a site in East Lothian will go ahead after a Scottish Government Reporter dismissed the local authority’s planning refusal. The housing charity’s proposal for four houses and 22 flats on an empty site in Prestonpans was refused

LAR Housing Trust has teamed up with Carnoustie Links Development Ltd to lodge plans to build new affordable homes in Aberdeen.

LAR Housing Trust has strengthened its board with the appointment of one of the best known figures in Scotland’s legal scene as a trustee. Former Burness Paull chair, Philip Rodney, has joined the housing charity’s board as the organisation targets further growth across Scotland.

Housing charity LAR has spoken of its disappointment that after a planning application for affordable homes was rejected by East Lothian Council. A bid to deliver four houses and 22 flats on an empty site in Prestonpans was refused by members of the local authority’s planning committee.

Fife-based housing charity LAR Housing Trust has appointed Clark Contracts for a multi million pound project in Edinburgh. The firm is to convert Westwood House, an empty office building on the city’s Gorgie Road, into 47 mid market rental flats.

A housing charity which was set up two years ago to provide much needed mid market rental properties across Scotland has completed its biggest ever deal for a development in Edinburgh. LAR Housing Trust has purchased Westwood House on the city’s Gorgie Road for an undisclosed sum.

Regional managing director Simon Phillips (right) and business development manager Euan McDermott Esh Border Construction has announced a raft of new multi-million pound framework partnerships within Scotland's social housing sector.

LAR chief executive Ann Leslie - image credit Mike Wilkinson A housing charity set up to help tackle a shortage of mid-rent homes across Scotland is issuing a fresh appeal to builders and developers in the Lothians to offer properties for sale to help it build up its portfolio of homes.