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A retrofit credits programme aimed at reducing carbon emissions and enhancing social value through housing retrofits has continued to deliver both carbon reductions at the same time as social impact for social housing residents across the UK. Now in only its second year, HACT and PNZ Carbon sha

A Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) has been submitted to North Lanarkshire Council for the extraction and remediation works of 200 acres of land at Ravenscraig, moving the regeneration of the former steelworks which has “scope to provide over 2,000 homes” into its next phase.

Blackwood Homes and Care has appointed a new head of business assurance. Gillian Anderson has been appointed to drive excellence in assurance, governance, corporate support and customer-focused service delivery across the organisation.

Urgently reversing recent cuts to the Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) budget is vital for the First Minister to meet his policy priorities, CIH Scotland has told the Scottish Parliament. The Scottish Parliament’s Finance and Public Administration Committee is carrying out

Homeless Network Scotland (HNS) has appointed Mhairi Snowden who will take up the post of head of policy and programmes in September. Mhairi joins HNS from the Human Rights Consortium Scotland, where she was eirector, and has a distinguished record of work across public life in Scotland and across t

Social housing veteran Jim Strang has been named interim manager at PATH Scotland. Currently a board chair at Riverside Scotland and a committee member of Shelter Scotland, Jim has more than 40 years of experience in the housing sector. He began his career working for local authorities acr

The average time for a homeless person to be assessed and find a residence has increased to nine months due to Scotland's councils' overstretched resources, according to new figures. Freedom of information requests published by the Scottish Government reveal that it took an average of 270

Funds from the latest round of the Ofgem Energy Redress Scheme have been awarded to 20 organisations who provide energy advice, support carbon reduction initiatives and develop innovative energy-focused services and products.

CIH Scotland has shared the details for a special event to celebrate Scottish Housing Day, which this year focuses on the theme of ‘homes for life.’

Wellbeing Lead is one of those job titles (or sub-headings to a job title is more likely the case) that for many of us didn’t exist five years ago. The importance of wellbeing shot way up the agenda during the pandemic and has fortunately stayed there ever since.

Ash Sheikh, director of sales and marketing at Muir Homes, reflects on the recent cut in interest rates and its effect on the house building market. I am sure I am not the only one who was pleased with the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee’s decision to cut interest rates by 0.

Easthouses Football Club have revealed their team strip for the new season, made possible thanks to a £500 sponsorship deal with Melville Housing Association.

Campion Homes has officially handed over the first accessible homes as part of the new Charleston development in Dundee.

Jimmy Black thinks about wheelchairs, accessible houses, cycling on grass and a conversation with Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP.

Below is a full transcript of episode 60 of the Scottish Housing News Podcast titled ‘Accessible housing (part 1) with Pam Duncan-Glancy MSP’. Listen to the episode here.