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West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) has brought forward detailed plans for 110 new homes on former railway land in Kelvindale, with an agreement in place to add a pedestrian footway to a nearby bridge.

Scotland’s Housing Network (SHN) has joined in partnership with Scotland’s local authorities to manage Scotland’s Housing Options Toolkit. As a result, SHN has appointed Leza Lafferty as learning/development officer and as the main contact for the new Housing Options Toolkit.

Audrey Simpson and John Duncan have accepted leading positions on the board of Partick Thistle Charitable Trust (PTCT) following the resignation of Randle Wilson. The director for Scotland at Home Group, Audrey Simpson was nominated to take on the role of chair, while John Duncan, the inve

Businesses from across the country gathered in Glasgow this month to recognise good practice, innovation and excellence in providing goods and services to Scotland's public sector.

Foster Evans looks at the Scottish housing review post-Grenfell, and what Scotland can learn from the tragedy. On 16 June 2017, 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The primary cause was the spread of fire caused by external cladding, which was only installed to stop the building being an &lsq

Glasgow-based energy services firm Union Technical has commenced work to retrofit more than 300 homes in Dumfries. Work has begun this week on a £1.5 million upgrade of the four-in-a-block sandstone flats at the town’s Sandside Estate, which were constructed in the 1930s.

The complex nature of Scotland’s land ownership along with a variety of sometimes unworkable title deeds and various legislative introductions over the past two decades has meant that more than ever organisations must ensure they have competent and knowledgeable factoring teams who can provide

Elderpark Housing has appointed established property maintenance business Timetra as its new reactive repairs contractor. The company will take over the reactive repairs contract from June 1.

Age Scotland is calling on local authorities to provide a ‘one-stop shop’ to help older people adapt their homes for later life after new research found that the available services across the country are fragmented, inflexible and difficult to navigate. A new report “Making Adaptat

The Scottish Government is consulting on measures that will save businesses time and money by making it easier to install renewable energy equipment.

An in-principle agreement has been reached with housing developers on the removal of unsafe cladding from buildings, the Scottish Government has said.

The £300 million transformation of Candleriggs Square in Glasgow’s Merchant City has reached another significant development milestone with the completion of structural work for a 346-apartment build-to-rent (BTR) complex, forward funded by Legal & General. Candleriggs Development 2

Improving the lives of people with dementia is at the heart of a new 10-year strategy launched by the Scottish Government. The strategy, Everyone’s Story, outlines a vision for dementia policy over the next decade and identifies a number of priorities which would improve the lives of people li

Statutory consumer body Consumer Scotland has published the report of the Scottish Energy Insights and Coordination Group (SEIC) which urges more support for energy consumers.  SEIC was convened by Consumer Scotland following the former First Minister’s energy summit in August 2022, held

Cala Homes (West) has made a cash donation to a major Scottish-born charity to help with its efforts to end homelessness across the city. Following Cala’s first donation of £2,000 at the start of the pandemic, the West of Scotland region is gifting a further £3,000 to Social Bite,