The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has reversed its decision to classify housing associations in England as public non-financial corporations, allowing their estimated £70 billion debt to be removed from the UK government's balance sheet. Announced a week before Chancellor Philip Hammond's au
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Pic caption: Michael Melton (left) and Rian Taylor Two of Scottish Borders Housing Association's (SBHA) brightest young people received recognition at the recent Chartered Institute of Housing Excellence Awards.
Young Tenant of the Year Chloe Dunn from Rosehearty (left) receives her award from Cllr Anne Stirling, chair of Aberdeenshire Council’s Communities Committee The first winner of an award in memory of Aberdeenshire Council’s former head of housing has been chosen.
Nicola Barclay Further to an interview in The Sunday Times in which I emphasised that solving Scotland’s housing crisis required a whole-system all-tenure approach, it appears that some people may have misinterpreted my remarks (indeed some misrepresenting them completely), framing them as being â
Campaigners called on the Scottish Government to take further action to improve the energy efficiency of Scotland’s homes in the wake of new statistics showing that an excess of 2,720 people died in winter 2016/17 compared with warmer months. The Existing Homes Alliance said the forthcoming Warm H
Affordable housing, infrastructure and tourism were high on the agenda as councillors on the Highland Council’s Lochaber committee reviewed the area’s local priorities. Originally agreed as local priorities for the area in 2015, plans for ambitious housing development and infrastructure investme
Scottish Housing News talks to COSLA’s new community wellbeing spokesperson Councillor Kelly Parry
Councillor Kelly Parry As Midlothian councillor Kelly Parry settles into her post as spokesperson for community wellbeing at the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA), Scottish Housing News asks about the housing elements of her wide-ranging role.
A massive reduction in UK government grants to social landlords in England is responsible for the deep fall in the construction of social housing over the past seven years, according to the National Housing Federation. The Federation, which represents housing associations, social landlords to over 2
Kevin Stewart The number of affordable homes approved over the year to the end June 2017 has increased by 30% on the previous year, bringing the total number of approvals over the year to 10,612.
Craig Sanderson, Link Group chief executive of Link Group and Councillor Gavin Barrie, the City of Edinburgh Council's housing and economy convener Link Group Ltd has officially opened a development of 15 homes for mid market rent at Annandale Street in Edinburgh.
A new report has highlighted a clear growth in the number of social enterprises in Scotland and their economic impact. Launched at the CEIS Policy and Practice conference in Glasgow this week, the latest Social Enterprise in Scotland: Census 2017 report found that there are now 5,600 social enterpri
Helen Graham, chair at Hawthorn Housing Co-operative and Amanda Dorel, head of SME real estate for Bank of Scotland Hawthorn Housing Co-operative is to build 48 new homes in Possilpark after securing a £2 million funding package from Bank of Scotland.
Aberdeen City Council has agreed to rejoin the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) after a two year absence. Councillors made the decision at a meeting of the full council yesterday as the local authority installed co-leaders for the first time in its history.
Stuart Nicholson, loan investments director at Scottish Widows, LAR chairman Andrew Robertson, housing minister Kevin Stewart and Alan Brennan, relationship director at Bank of Scotland Commercial Real Estate LAR Housing Trust has secured £65 million of funding to boost its portfolio of mid-market
Harry Woodward Harry Woodward writes in a personal capacity about Paul Sng’s documentary, Dispossession: The Great Social Housing Swindle.