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Elderpark Housing delivered a double dose of fun for local youngsters this week. The Association supported a 2km junior parkrun in Elder Park, Govan for kids aged four and over.

West Dunbartonshire Council has amended its Buy-Back Scheme to include additional properties which are not former local authority homes.

A Scottish trade body has urged Scotland Excel to insist on the use of project bank accounts (PBAs) for its new £1.5 billion social housing construction framework. Speaking after Scotland Excel’s recent Glasgow conference, Fiona Hodgson, CEO of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing

A report assessing West Dunbartonshire Council's housing service has highlighted a number of positive improvements in the past year.

Energy regulator Ofgem has written an open letter calling for fairer treatment for customers who are left in debt when energy companies collapse. Since the beginning of 2018, 14 energy companies have exited the domestic energy market. In this event, a Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) is appointed, and

FM Group has submitted plans to build apartments at the location of a proposed north east golf course designed by American golfer Jack Nicklaus.

Services for tenants provided by local community-controlled housing associations have again outperformed those of other social landlords, according to the latest Charter report from the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF). Produced for GWSF by Scotland’s Housing N

Lanarkshire Housing Association (LHA) recently welcomed minister for business, fair work & skills Jamie Hepburn along with Clare Adamson MSP to its Motherwell office to hear more about an innovative sponsorship scheme for apprenticeships. In conjunction with New College Lanarkshire (NCL), t

Ahead of the Homes for Scotland annual conference, Nicola Barclay discusses the need for housing, the social and economic benefits of home building and the constraints facing the industry. For the first time since 2008 and the global recession, housing completions in Scotland have exceeded 20,000 pe

A new assisted living development at Andrew Nisbet Place, Hurlford, has been completed and is now welcoming new residents.

North Lanarkshire Council's housing services is celebrating its hat-trick of awards for best practice and delivery of innovative projects at the CIH Scotland 2019 Excellence Awards. The three successful projects were: Access to Opportunities, which won the Excellence in Delivering Homelessness Servi

Scottish politicians are helping to tackle homelessness this winter by showing their support for an ethical Christmas tree campaign. Caring Christmas Trees is a unique social enterprise that has been running for 17 years which supports the work of homelessness charity Bethany Christian Tru

Human Appeal, a Muslim-faith charity based in Greater Manchester, has launched its third-annual 'Wrap Up Glasgow' campaign to help ease the suffering of homeless people this winter.

Ofgem has issued two energy providers with provisional orders for failing to demonstrate their renewables obligations. The regulator has ordered Nabuh Energy to pay £872,200.62 plus interest and Breeze Energy to pay £486,232.06 including interest.

Persimmon has highlighted the progress of its drive to improve quality and customer care which has seen extra £140 million spent on work in progress during the first half of this year. The “substantial additional investment”, which follows criticism of construction standards by new