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Wellhouse Housing Association’s estates team have been praised for their herculean effort in looking after the community throughout the pandemic which included cutting the equivalent of the famous pitch at Hampden 18 times. In eight months the team of Daniel Healy, Jordan French, Dale Russell

An area of land within South Cumbernauld Community Growth Area (CGA) is being marketed for sale for housing by North Lanarkshire Council. The 18-hectare site at Mid Forest has capacity for up to 300 residential units, with 25% to be affordable homes, and the development should include play facilitie

The City of Edinburgh Council has published its response to the recent Scottish Government consultation on short term lets, welcoming the announcement that draft legislation on proposals is expected to be considered by Parliament in December. The report, which will be considered by councillors at ne

Glasgow City Council is set to begin preparatory work on the potential compulsory purchase of the site of the former Talisman public house, should a sale not be agreed with the owners. The site at 149 Balgrayhill Road in Springburn has lain derelict for almost 20 years, and is a visual and environme

A report assessing West Dunbartonshire Council’s housing service has highlighted a number of positive improvements in the past year. The Scottish Social Housing Charter report shows the service continues to perform well in areas including homelessness, re-letting empty properties and complianc

Tulloch Homes has started infrastructure works on its new all-bungalows £10 million development at Culbokie in the Black Isle. Initial site investigation works have just been completed for Glascairn Meadows, a mix of 20 two and three-bedroom bungalows on land adjacent to the village shop.

Planning officers at Glasgow City Council are recommending that councillors reject the latest application to build flats at a disused Finnieston Bowling Club.

Glasgow's Winter Night Shelter will open on December 1st this year with a change of name and a new location. Now known as the Overnight Welcome Centre, the emergency accommodation for people at risk of rough sleeping in winter will be provided in a Glasgow hotel, rather than in Lodging Housing Missi

Just under two months since becoming the first UK local authority to set a target date for ending poverty, the City of Edinburgh Council has unveiled a ten-year delivery plan outlining the actions it will take to help eradicate poverty in the capital by 2030. The End Poverty in Edinburgh Delivery Pl

Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced that funding for the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal will be accelerated as the UK Government reconfirmed its commitment to the deal. As part of the 2020 Spending Review, it was confirmed that the investment into the projects of the Deal would be delivered over

Social Bite has announced the launch of its Festival of Kindness appeal to support those in need over Christmas and the winter months. The mission of this appeal is to raise enough funds to distribute 250,000 meals and essential items in Scotland and throughout the UK.

Scotland captain Andy Robertson has launched his own charity to give young people across the country an equal start in life through football-themed projects and opportunities to support socially deprived and critically ill children. AR26 Charity, named after his long-held shirt number from Dundee Un

Big Issue Invest's Power Up programme has supported 19 social businesses to date with a total of £870,000 investment, according to its 2020 Impact Report. In turn, collectively, the social ventures were able to respond to the COVID-19 crisis by providing meals to high-risk individuals, suppor

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) told MSPs yesterday that it does not have an agenda against smaller registered social landlords and that it is a "myth" to suggest that there is any rush for the organisation to commence statutory intervention within an RSL.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has responded to the Scottish Government’s Draft Infrastructure Investment Plan 2021–2022 to 2025–2026 by welcoming its proposed capital funding increase. Warning, at the same time, that the proposed "investment hierarchy" &nda