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The housing allocations’ policy used by three of the biggest social housing landlords in Perth and Kinross has been updated. Perth and Kinross Council, Caledonia Housing Association and Hillcrest Housing Association operate a Common Housing Register (CHR) to improve access to social housing and ad

Housing and care provider Bield is looking for enthusiastic volunteers to help reduce isolation and increase community involvement of tenants in Glasgow. Bield’s Lochar Lodge requires two volunteers to help devise and deliver weekly programs of social activities for the tenants, both in the develo

Plans to build 600 homes between Bridge of Allan and Causewayhead have been refused by Stirling Council. Proposals submitted by Graham’s The Family Dairy, which included plans for 600 homes and a new primary school at Airthrey Kerse, were rejected by councillors by 12 votes to eight (with two abst

Plans to offer a home in Orkney to Syrian refugees took a further step forward last week as councillors recommended that two properties currently held for student accommodation be used to house the two families that could be resettled here. A number of housing options were put forward at a meeting o

People living in Castlemilk can now make use of a new state-of-the-art digital learning centre providing free internet and computer access at their local library. The computer learning centre at Castlemilk Library is the first ‘Click & Connect’ centre to be opened in one of Glasgow’s libra

Nearly 190 community-led projects providing a range of support to people across Scotland will receive a share of £10.8 million funding. The People and Communities Fund will be allocated to 185 projects in 2016/17, which are addressing inequalities in disadvantaged communities.

The management board of Caledonia Housing Association has approved a rent increase of 1 per cent for the year 2016/17 following considerable deliberation and an extensive consultation exercise. The board was consciously aware that the current economic climate remains very challenging for the Associa

Cases involving the eviction of tenants from a rented property in Scotland rose in 2014-15 for the second year in a row, according to the latest figures. The Scottish Government civil justice court statistics revealed that the number of eviction orders in the social housing (local authority and regi

Local authorities across Scotland are calling on politicians from all parties to launch a revolution in local democracy within the first few months after May's Holyrood election. The Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) wants to harness the power of a more locally democratic way of doing

Hanover Scotland Housing Association’s efforts to ensure it has family-friendly policies have been recognised after it reached the final of Family Friendly Working Scotland’s (FFWS) Top Employers For Working Families awards. Hanover offers a range of flexible, family-friendly policies and benefi

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has appointed “independent experts” to review its own governance with the aim of making the charity a model within the sector for progressive governance. The move follows a difficult few months which have seen the departure of chief executive Margaret Lynch and the

New legislation that will modernise the private rented sector (PRS) was passed last night by the Scottish Parliament. The Private Housing (Tenancies) (Scotland) Bill will create simpler tenancies, offer stability and security to the 700,000 tenants who call the private rented sector home, and ensure

Third sector funder Social Investment Scotland (SIS) has announced 11 board and committee appointments. In a move that signals its intent to expand the sector SIS announced that the appointments include former Bank of Scotland and Lloyds Banking Group senior director Eric Gibson and former chief exe

Progress was made towards a new Argyll and Bute housing development yesterday. Councillors have approved a planning application for a new bonded warehouse, the first step in a distillery and residential housing development, at Polphail village, Portavadie, as well as a masterplan which will guide th

The Scottish Government is consulting on a number of options to achieve savings for the Scottish Household Survey (SHS) in 2017 and beyond. The annual survey, which has run since 199, provides detailed national and local authority level data on people in Scotland.