The chief executive, chair and board of Hanover Scotland has celebrated the organisation’s 40th anniversary. Over the 40 years since it was created, the housing association has been at the forefront of providing innovative care and housing to meet varying needs and supporting residents to expe
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Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has announced the beginning of pre-construction and enabling works for a development of 295 new homes at its Spencer Fields development in Inverkeithing. The development, which will deliver 74 affordable homes in partnership with Fife Council, has also been designed to pr
An annual football festival hosted by Cairn Housing Group has taken place and gets even bigger and better each year. Now in its seventh year, the Cairn Cup is supported by the Cairn Community Fund and organised by volunteers from Cradlehall Football Club in Inverness.
The new owner of Dundee construction services firm McGill is to revive the company’s specialist homes division. Chief executive Graeme Carling, who is one of Scotland’s largest private landlords through Carling Property Group, said the move would complement his knowledge of the residenti
Around 13% of new homes across Scotland are currently missing out on full fibre technology, according to digital network operator Openreach. The firm called on the 60-plus Scottish homebuilders at a conference at BT Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh to make sure their home buyers are not among the 3,
A group of pupils from Glasgow have been helping to combat loneliness and isolation in their community by donating their time at a local retirement development. Third year students from St Andrew’s High School MCR Pathways Programme have been lending a hand at Bield’s Coxton Gardens as p
Residents are being asked to comment on a bold new vision for way the city delivers health and social care services. The Edinburgh Integration Joint Board has launched an online consultation as it seeks feedback on its new draft Strategic Plan.
Schemes to create jobs and protect the environment are set to benefit from a new fund to help social enterprises which will be backed by £17 million of investment. The money from The Scottish Social Growth Fund will enable social enterprises, charities and voluntary groups to delive
Plans to build more than 600 new homes in one of Glasgow’s key regeneration areas have moved a step closer to becoming reality.A masterplan for the site in Hamiltonhill received planning permission in principle in December. And now, developers behind the £90 million mixed-tenure project
The Scottish Housing Regulator’s intervention at Thistle Housing Association is to continue with the governing body now willing to work alongside the statutory appointments to address its governance non-compliance. The Regulator used its statutory powers to appoint a manager and
Improved value and outcomes are on the cards for tenants across Scotland as housing associations enter their data into the Sector Scorecard for the third year running.
Construction is now under way on 31 new council houses in Seamill following a ground-breaking ceremony last week.
Morrison Construction has begun work on a new housing development for the Highland Council and Highland Housing Alliance in the heart of Inverness.
Shelter Scotland director Graeme Brown reviews progress on housing and homelessness since 1999. 1999 seems both close and very distant now. It’s hard to recall the days when housing debate for Scotland, at a parliamentary level, used to be squeezed into an annual 90-minute slot and the very, v
As part of an ongoing commitment to ‘Give Something Back’ to its tenants and communities, Fife Housing Group recently organised a free day out for a group of local families.