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A key to unlocking the UK’s housing crisis lies in tackling the under-occupation of family homes where there are more than 15 million ‘surplus’ bedrooms, according to a new report from the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation (CSFI).

Procurement solution provider Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) has secured its landmark 100th partner. SPA partner organisations – such as councils, housing associations, universities and emergency services – delivered more than £160 million worth of projects in 2018-19 alone th

Businesses across the country have now been awarded more than £100 million through the Scottish Government Business Support Fund. The scheme, announced by cabinet secretary Fiona Hyslop at the end of April, has to date helped more than 2,500 businesses and 4,160 self-employed people.

Plans to convert the empty offices at Dalian House into flats have been given the green light by Glasgow City Council. Dalian House, the former NHS Glasgow headquarters at Charing Cross, will now be converted into 67 apartments.

A special fund to help council tenants worried about rent arrears during the coronavirus crisis has been put in place by North Lanarkshire Council.  The council has set up £300,000 worth of funding to help those tenants whose financial circumstances have been disrupted during the pandemic

A report has been launched into a project in which four local authorities and seven housing associations, funded by the North and Islands Homelessness and Housing Options Hub and managed by Scotland’s Housing Network, explored enhanced practices in relation to section 11 notices.

Councillors have unanimously rejected the latest plans to develop hundreds of flats at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Quarry.

Guillermo Rodríguez-Guzmán from the Centre for Homelessness Impact introduces the newly developed Housing Costs Calculator which aims to help city leaders plan for the transition from emergency homelessness accommodation.

Spectrum Properties (Scotland) Ltd has submitted plans to convert an empty job centre building in Bridgeton into 49 flats. 

The Scottish Government has approved plans for flats at a former Perth hospital after the local authority failed to rule on the application.

Councillors in Aberdeen have approved plans to build a new three-storey block of flats and agreed to determine separate proposals for a new community of more than 100 homes at a later date.

A recent decision issued by the Belgian Data Protection Authority has some ramifications for RSLs who appoint a member of staff as their Data Protection Officer (DPO), says Daradjeet Jagpal. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) recently celebrated its second birthday. Many RSLs appointed a

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has confirmed the support firms should give to mortgage customers who are either coming to the end of a payment holidays or who are yet to request one amid the continuing coronavirus crisis.  The FCA is also reminding customers that if they can afford to re

Almost £3 million of community partnership funding has been awarded to third sector and other community organisations in East Lothian for 2020/21.

The Lord Provost’s Charitable Trust Aberdeen COVID-19 crowdfunding appeal has raised almost £240,000 in less than a month, thanks to another staggering £50,000 donation from The Seven Incorporated Trades Widows’ Fund Charity.