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CALA Homes (North) has submitted a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for the third phase of the leading homebuilder’s Craibstone Estate development.

Shawfair LLP director Nick Waugh on the importance of community engagement when building a new town. This year has taught us many things – most of them character-forming as my mother was fond of saying - but one genuinely good thing to have emerged from this pandemic is the curative power

Shetland’s 10-year-old Thomas Leask and Keiko the cat are set to become internet sensations in a new film highlighting why Lerwick’s district heating system means local people can have warmth, fight fuel poverty and save the planet.

Scotland’s least well-off families have seen a marked increase in their income from three Scottish Government benefits, according to an evaluation published today. The evaluation of the three Best Start Grant payments shows that families on the lowest incomes were able to buy essential items f

A total of 1,057 affordable housing supply homes completed in the latest quarter, July to September 2020, an increase of 860 homes on the 197 completions in the previous quarter, April to June 2020. According to the latest statistics released by Scotland's chief statistician, there were about half t

Build and sales activity at Springfield Properties rebounded strongly following the resumption of operations, post lockdown, from late June 2020 with the group expecting total revenue for the first half of 2020/21 to be approximately 17% higher than in H1 2019/20. Announcing its trading update for t

Perth & Kinross Council has created a new fund to help tackle financial insecurity and support households with essential needs and priority debts over the winter. The Financial Insecurity Fund has been created using the Council's share of £20 million provided by the Scottish Government for

Brendan Hall, who led the crew that won The Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in 2009, has praised Caledonia Housing Association’s commitment to employee wellbeing. Speaking at the association's first virtual event for its employees across Scotland, he said: "Wellbeing in the (remote) workpla

Many staff at Govan Housing Association have volunteered to work on Christmas day delivering meals to those most in need.

A new report released by HACT has revealed how social housing organisations responded to the COVID-19 pandemic across the UK. A Sector Together is an anthology of stories, statistics and viewpoints highlighting the action taken by housing organisations to address the plethora of problems brought by

Donald Trump is facing legal action from his New York apartment tenants who allege that he and his family manipulated the cost of apartment improvements to hike the cost of their rents. The group of tenants from rent-regulated apartments that late family Fred C. Trump once owned are filing a class-a

A Santa impersonator in the form of Argyll Community Housing Association's Alastair MacGregor dropped in on Valerie Weight from Oban with a surprise Christmas hamper. Every year ACHA does a draw for four hampers for ACHA members who are £1 shareholders in the charity.

The first residents have been welcomed to Clydebank’s new £14.092 million state-of-the-art care facility at Queens Quay House. In line with coronavirus restrictions, residents from Mount Pleasant House and Frank Downie House moved in over a two day period, and will remain within the

The results of a survey undertaken by Grampian Housing Association show the huge and long-lasting effects COVID-19 has had on many of its tenants and their families. Responses from 43% or 1,136 of tenants provide headline survey results which demonstrate this significant impact on households particu

The Scottish Parliament’s local government committee has agreed to a postponement of new regulations for fire and smoke alarm regulations until 2022.