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Crown Estate Scotland is offering two tenant farmers the opportunity to buy their farms. Tenants on Auchindoun Estate in Moray and Applegirth Estate in Dumfriesshire are being made the offer as part of a pilot which may be extended.

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has announced that Vodafone Business and Cisco have become SFHA commercial associates, helping to increase the knowledge and experience it can provide members with regarding new digital technologies and mobile connectivity. Through the partnersh

A new community cafe will open next week inside Barrowfield Community Centre in Glasgow which is run by the Willowcare Trust, part of West of Scotland Housing Association.

The 11th Scottish Empty Homes Conference, due to take place on Tuesday 1 February 2022, has been rescheduled to 22 March 2022 to increase the likelihood of in-person participation at the conference. With the theme 'Empty Spaces to Thriving Places', the conference will be held in a hybrid format. A l

Sandra Brydon, director of Home Group Scotland, who has devoted more than 40 years to public and charitable service in Scotland, is calling time on her career this spring.

A £3 million support fund has been launched to help Scots struggling with their energy bills amid a growing cost-of-living crisis. The Scottish Government scheme, which is administered by national advice service Advice Direct Scotland, is designed to prevent households falling into fuel povert

The board of management at Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has approved a £40,000 grant assistance fund for its tenants. The purpose of this fund is to assist any tenant experiencing vulnerability in financial terms between January and March 2022.

New staff joining the social care workforce are to have entry costs paid by the Scottish Government until the end of March. Protection of Vulnerable Groups (PVG) checks and Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC) registration will now be funded to help encourage more staff into the profession and ad

The new chair of the Drug Deaths Taskforce has been announced as David Strang, a former Chief Constable who previously chaired the Independent Inquiry into Mental Health Services in Tayside. Mr Strang was also HM Chief Inspector of Prisons in Scotland. He takes up this new position with immediate ef

A Holyrood committee has backed plans to introduce a licensing scheme for short-term let properties in Scotland.

A newly lodged planning application has called for permission to demolish a lens manufacturing plant in Aberdeen to make way for a block of flats.

Owners of second homes in England who abuse a tax loophole by claiming their often-empty properties are holiday lets will be forced to pay under new measures announced by the UK Government today.

Proposals for a net zero housing development that forms part of the £1.3 billion Granton Waterfront regeneration project in north west Edinburgh have been granted approval by city planners.

Daniel Thompson is to replace Stacy Angus at Osprey Housing Group’s new director of housing following her appointment as the north east social landlord’s chief executive. Daniel joins Osprey — which currently owns and manages more than 1,800 properties across Aberdeenshire, Aberdee

Nicola Dibb and Debra Constance, co-founders of Women In Social Housing (WISH), the networking organisation for women across all elements of the social housing sector, are working with key parties in Scotland to bring WISH to the country for the first time.