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Plans have been submitted to create 11 serviced apartments and a restaurant at a listed building in central Glasgow. Glasgow City Council has received an application for the apartments on the second and third floor of 54 Union Street.

Today is the last day of hub West Scotland’s Winter Warmer Appeal, with the organisation calling for members of the public and companies to make one last final push and donate to provide children living in poverty with new warm winter jackets and new wellington boots this Christmas. The appeal

Community groups, charities and NGOs are being encouraged to apply for a new £200,000 fund to support Scotland’s green recovery, launched by NatureScot. The NatureScot Better Places Green Recovery Fund will help to identify the local impacts and opportunities of visitor management at nat

Aberdeen Cyrenians is launching its festive light trail today with homes across the city shining a light on homelessness and the vital role of 'home' during 2020.

Wellhouse Housing Association (WHA) has invested over £80,000 in the first phases of work to bring new housing to Greater Easterhouse. The Association has ambitious plans to create an additional 160 homes across three sites in the area. Work has included site investigations and soil testi

Cernach Housing Association has decided to freeze rents in 2021/22 as it continues to assist its tenants during this difficult year. The committee has decided to freeze rents in 2021/22. The committee's decision follows detailed consideration of the impact on the long-term financial projec

Pauline McNeill MSP has stressed the 'urgent' need for rent controls as the Scottish Parliament’s local government committee completes its consultation into the Fair Rents (Scotland) Bill. The Bill, which was rejected by the committee earlier this year, was resurrected following pres

The Scottish Government has published a consultation into proposed rules requiring zero emissions heating systems in all new build homes. The New Build Heat Standard would mean all new build homes must have heating that produces zero direct greenhouse gas emissions, helping to meet climate

Today marks a year since 30 people with their own personal stories of homelessness, from working in the sector and living the experience, came together to form All In For Change. The group is the first such in Scotland combining both lived and professional experience.

A new fund to support charity initiatives that reduce the climate change impact associated with energy use has been launched today by the Ofgem Energy Industry Voluntary Redress Scheme. Managed and delivered by Energy Saving Trust, the Energy Redress Scheme collects voluntary payments from ener

Sixteen of Scotland's brightest and best university leavers have joined Wheatley Group's Ignite graduate training programme.

It was a blooming lovely surprise for Linthouse Housing Association tenant Ella Devoy when the Association dropped by to help celebrate her 90th birthday.

A community group in Glasgow has been praised for its pioneering commitment to support people with disabilities by planning the city’s first openly accessible activity space. Hawthorn Housing Co-operative (HHC) believes that its new outdoor play and fitness equipment plan would provide a massi

Under One Roof (UOR), the highly praised advice website for flat owners and their advisers in Scotland, is set to expand as it becomes a new charity. To date, the website has operated with a voluntary Steering Group managed initially by the RIAS and subsequently by Changeworks, the Edinburgh based e

A high-tech new heating system which will transform the way homes, businesses and public buildings in Clydebank are heated is now operational.