{"id":75932,"date":"2025-08-18T17:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75932\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:25:10","slug":"jedburgh-pilot-establishes-garage-to-homes-template-august-2025-news-architecture-in-profile-the-building-environment-in-scotland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/75932\/","title":{"rendered":"Jedburgh pilot establishes garage-to-homes template : August 2025 : News : Architecture in profile the building environment in Scotland"},"content":{"rendered":"

August 18 2025<\/p>\n

\t\"Jedburgh<\/a> <\/p>\n

A garages-to-homes initiative in the Scottish Borders is transforming disused spaces into desperately needed new housing, the first initiative of its kind in Scotland.<\/p>\n

Scottish Borders Housing Association has spearheaded the project, inviting housing providers from across the country to the launch event at Butler Court, where four accessible and energy-efficient bungalows were unveiled.<\/p>\n

The project architect is Russell Edwards of Edwards Architecture, working with garage-to-home regeneration specialist HUSK, which provides each home with air source heat pumps, PV solar panels, a fire suppression system, and A-rated EPCs.<\/p>\n

Russell Edwards, managing director of HUSK, commented: \u201cThe Garages to Homes model allows us to reuse existing structures in a sustainable way, providing high-quality living spaces while reducing waste and construction time.\u201d<\/p>\n

Butler Court is soon to be joined by another three homes on two separate sites on Lothian Road and a further six homes in Hawick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"August 18 2025 A garages-to-homes initiative in the Scottish Borders is transforming disused spaces into desperately needed new…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12471,6225,6485,6486,22279,2307,1120,96,38908,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-75932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-architecture-in-the-uk","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-august-2025","tag-britain","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-jedburgh-pilot-establishes-garage-to-homes-template","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}