Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has appointed a new chair following its 23rd Annual General Meeting last week. After nine years of dedicated service, five of them as chair, Robin Hill has stepped down from SBHA’s board of management. He is succeeded as chair by Ian McDonald, a Char
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The Salvation Army has urged all political parties in Scotland to make preventing and ending homelessness a central pledge in their manifestos for next year’s election campaigns after new figures painted a mixed picture of progress and growing pressures on housing and support services. The lat
The former chief medical officer of Scotland was one of two star turns at Barrhead Housing’s 2025 Annual General Meeting. Sir Harry Burns, born and raised in Barrhead, was joined by Peter Kelly, chief executive of the Poverty Alliance.
NHBC is supporting the Association for Rental Living (ARL) to deliver a webinar examining the processes and challenges associated with unlocking brownfield sites for mixed tenure development.
Two Edinburgh multi-storey council housing blocks could be demolished after the cost of planned refurbishment works increased by tens of millions, city council officers have revealed. A report going before councillors this week states that refurbishing Oxcars Court and Inchmickery Court in Muirhouse
The amount of vacant and derelict land in Scotland has fallen by more than a quarter since 2016, according to the latest annual survey. New statistics detailing the amount, characteristics and location of vacant and derelict land in Scotland and local authority areas in 2024 found that of 335 sites
Briar Homes has been granted planning permission by Fife Council for a £40 million residential development in the village of Kennoway.
Bridgewater Housing Association held its 28th Annual General Meeting (AGM) on Wednesday, 10th September 2025, welcoming members and guests to its offices in India of Inchinnan. Despite ongoing sector-wide challenges, the Association reported another strong year of progress, innovation, and community
Nine out of 10 tenants of Scotland’s biggest social landlord are happy with the service they receive, according to a new city-wide survey. The latest findings have emerged from a tenant satisfaction survey of Wheatley Homes Glasgow tenants from April to August this year by independent consulta
Hillcrest’s Tenant Services Teams, which include the multi-award-winning Hillcrest Energy Advice Team (HEAT) and the Financial Wellbeing Team, have achieved an outstanding milestone, nearly doubling their annual target by securing almost £5 million in financial gains for tenants. This im
Young superstar fundraiser, Aleks Crosby, is all set to take on his fourth Kiltwalk in aid of Sight Scotland, a charity he has grown up around through his dad’s work as a rehabilitation and mobility officer. This year, Aleks will be joined on the Edinburgh Wee Wander by his dad, Kieran, his tw
A former care home in Balfron may soon be replaced by new housing. Strathendrick Care Home, which was declared surplus to requirements by the Clackmannanshire and Stirling Integration Joint Board in 2021, is the focus of fresh development plans.
Forty-two public sector bodies are to benefit from a bumper rebate pot worth £563,104. Now in its eighth year, the long-running rebate initiative has returned more than £4.8 million to public sector partners, rewarding their investment in housing, community infrastructure, energy efficie
Angus Council has approved a new policy regarding the installation and use of wood burners, stoves, open fires, and other open-flued appliances within council-owned properties and tenancies.
Eleni Diamantopoulou and Calum Raine from Womble Bond Dickinson delve into Scotland's ambitious plans to enhance energy performance standards in housebuilding, aiming to create a more sustainable and environmentally friendly future.
