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Proposals by Abertay Housing Association to build 31 affordable homes in Dundee have been recommended for approval. An application was lodged last year seeking permission to build affordable housing on vacant land that sits between Clepington Road in the north and Kingspark School to the south.

Age Scotland has launched a nationwide search for its inaugural older people’s Community Champion as the charity opens nominations for its 2025 awards. For the first time, this year’s awards will include a Community Champion category to celebrate small acts of kindness, generosity and su

East Lothian Council has made good progress towards achieving targets set out in the Local Housing Strategy 2024-2029, including delivery of new affordable housing units and a reduction in homelessness cases, councillors have been told.

Places for People has joined forces with Dunbar-based charity The Ridge to deliver a groundbreaking project aimed at empowering local residents and tackling social challenges.

Langstane Housing Association property surveyor Chloe Beech has been shortlisted for the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations' (SFHA) NextGen Leader Award, a key highlight of the organisation’s 50th anniversary celebrations. The NextGen Leader Award recognises outstanding young professi

In the last couple of weeks, Almond Housing has welcomed a new customer care manager and a community engagement officer to the team. Both are replacement roles but represent a change in approach for the organisation, from a more old-fashioned housing support stance to one of customer support.

Over the coming year, dedicated teams of cleansing staff from the City of Edinburgh Council are making their way around the capital with the aim of sprucing up each neighbourhood and ward.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) and the network of Scotland’s Citizens Advice Bureaux (CABs) are to receive £6 million thanks to independent funder Foundation Scotland.

After a decade of challenging misperceptions around the quality, safety, and potential of Scottish timber, BE-ST has launched the Mass Timber Centre of Excellence - a milestone in the journey to making UK-grown mass timber a mainstream, high-value construction solution. Sam Hart, associate dire

More homes are needed to tackle recruitment challenges in health and social care, schools, policing, forestry and farming throughout the south of Scotland, according to new research.

After GWSF’s David Bookbinder pondered the wider implications of the City of Edinburgh Council’s decision to suspend housing list lets in favour of homelessness allocations, Homeless Network Scotland has issued a response. Three weeks ago, Edinburgh Council took the decision to susp

Marking today’s anniversary of the declaration of a housing emergency in Scotland, the Everyone Home collective has criticised failures over the last year and is calling on all political parties to commit to concrete action with one year to go until the Holyrood election. Today, we stand at a

Proposals to develop Edinburgh’s Caledonian Brewery into a low-carbon residential development have been recommended for approval.

Lintel Trust has awarded a £1,000 Small Grant to Aberdeenshire Council’s Sheltered Housing Tenants Forum to enhance digital connectivity and social engagement for sheltered housing tenants across the region.

Scottish local government body COSLA, which was founded in 1975, celebrated its 50th year with senior politicians and invited guests from across the public sector and third sector at the Scottish Parliament last week. Sponsored by Ariane Burgess MSP, the reception welcomed around 200 guests to the S