Fife Council is hoping interested community groups will come forward to take over the running of some buildings across the region, with support from the council on offer. A review of the council’s estate last year highlighted that many community buildings are under used, no longer fit for purpose
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A near £4 million programme of external wall insulation is to be installed into Dundee City Council homes thanks to the Home Energy Efficiency Programme for Scotland, councillors will be told next week. Members of the neighbourhood services committee will hear that properties in Tullideph, Marshall
All Perth & Kinross Council housing tenants are being invited to attend the annual Tenant Conference 2017 on June 29. The event will be held at the Dewar’s Centre, Perth, from 6pm to 8.30pm.
Plans have been unveiled to demolish a former whisky bottling plant to make way for a new housing estate in Dundee. Stewart House, the former Stewart’s Cream of the Barley plant at Kingsway East, could be replaced with 90 houses under plans by Persimmon Homes and site owner Bruce Linton.
Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has won a legal case against a tenant and their partner who repeatedly engaged in anti-social behaviour at one of their properties in Dunoon. Although a tough line has always been taken on anti-social behaviour, this was the first instance in the Cowal are
At the end of financial year 2016/17, Angus Housing Association has reported record low rent arrears of 1.01%. The performance bucks the trend for most Scottish landlords as rent arrears have generally been on the increase since Universal Credit (UC) and other welfare reforms have been introduced.
Investigative journalism platform The Ferret has revealed that its second crowdfunded investigation will be into housing and homelessness and is holding two meetings next week for input from the public and stakeholders. The subject for the exploration was selected after it topped a recent reader pol
A 29 year old woman has been issued with an Interim Antisocial Behaviour Order that bans her from acting in an antisocial manner in and around her Dunbar home. The Interim ASBO was granted by Edinburgh Sheriff Court on May 23 against Chithara Coetzee of Ashgrove, Dunbar, following an application fro
Over 190 staff from the three associations that make up the Caledonia Housing Association Group have attended a series of data governance workshops as the group prepares for the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in May 2018. The GDPR is a regulation by which the European
An East Ayrshire Very Sheltered Housing Development has helped spark interest in online after a generous donation enabled them to purchase iPads for all tenants to use. The £2,500 donation to Bield’s Warrick and Glebe Courts in Cumnock was made by a former tenant, Mr McGough, who had enjoyed his
Housing and homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has hit out at the “shameful” numbers of rough sleepers dying on the streets of Glasgow after new figures revealed that four homeless people are dying every month in the city. Figures obtained by the Sunday Herald from Glasgow City Council via fr
A group of friends plan to spend a night sleeping rough to highlight homelessness in Dundee ahead of the general election. Mark Parsons, a pharmacist from Broughty Ferry, has rounded up around 15 of his friends and acquaintances to take part in the initiative.
Inverclyde-based housing association River Clyde Homes has launched a campaign to remind customers of the importance of paying their rent. The introduction of Universal Credit has resulted in a single monthly payment for people in or out of work that is paid directly into their bank accounts.
The estimated population of Scotland continued to rise last year to reach a new record of 5,404,700. Figures published by the National Records of Scotland (NRS) show a rise of 31,700 (0.6%) people over the year to the end of June 2016.
A woman has been evicted from her property in lower Port Glasgow after being found guilty of the possession of unlawful drugs with the intention of supplying, from her home, those drugs to other persons. Anne Parker was evicted from the property in Kelburn Terrace on Tuesday 18 April 2017. Ms Parker