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(from left) Back row: Claycot Park residents Bill White, Helen Farrell, May Coutts, Mary Aitchison, Joan Gordon, Liz Mouat and Robert Mouat. Front row: Glyemuir Primary School nursery pupils Jayden, Evie, Olivia, Eve, Rosie, Sophie, Sadie, Finlay, Ari and Struan A six-week pilot project is aiming to

Barratt Homes’ Mill Brae development A home is likely to be the biggest purchase a person will ever make. As such, it’s perfectly understandable that buyers will want every assurance their home is the quality investment they’ve worked so long and hard for.

Residents are being invited to submit their views on the next Local Development Plan (LDP) for the Cairngorms National Park. A 15-week consultation has been launched on the Main Issues Report, which sets out the Park Authority's ideas for how things should look in the future.

Plans have been unveiled to build 120 new affordable flats at an empty site at Dundee’s City Quay. Edinburgh-based JM Architects has submitted a proposal of application notice (PAN) to Dundee City Council for the homes along with parking facilities on an area of land to the west of Thorter Row and

A street food market which will offer employment opportunities to local homeless people is set to open in Glasgow later this month. Having spent the last three years operating the pop up restaurant Section33, which last year asked its customers to donate to homelessness charity Simon Community Scotl

Barry White The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) is calling on the housing industry and Scotland’s councils to work together to further increase housing supply.

Ian Morrison, chief executive of Whiteinch and Scotstoun Housing Association Whiteinch and Scotstoun Housing Association has set up a social enterprise company employing six people to handle all its close and back court cleaning and provide concierge services for its sole multi-story block.

George Walker The Scottish Housing Regulator has highlighted the need for landlords to consider tenants’ ability to keep paying rents in the longer term when setting rents.

ACHA chair, Jim Milne, new tenants Lucy Williams Bale and Brian McMahon with their daughter Maisie and Eleanor Smith’s daughter and son Ceris Smith and Aidan Dunley, accompanied by Councillor Robin Currie and ACHA’s chief executive, Alastair MacGregor Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA)

Gary Haldane, Kingdom Housing Group head of ICT Housing association staff from across Fife attended a joint training event organised by Fife Housing Association Alliance to increase their knowledge of how digital solutions can be applied to services and projects to benefit tenants.

People involved in the Govan Modulus Project Govan Housing Association was recently acknowledged in the House of Commons by an early day motion which was sponsored by MP Christopher Stephens.

Stephen Neill By Karen McQueen, deputy chief executive, Whiteinch & Scotstoun Housing Association

Delegates at the Eydent Housing Conference Over 100 delegates from Ayrshire RSLs were joined for the third Eydent Housing Conference by colleagues from Ayrshire local authorities, as well as RSLs from Renfrewshire and Glasgow.

Phil Buckle, chief executive of Electrical Safety First An electrical safety charity has welcomed moves to introduce five yearly safety checks in the private rented sector (PRS) but has called for them to be extended to all social housing properties.

Josh Littlejohn MBE alongside Scottish Rugby participants in Edinburgh’s West Princes Street Gardens (from left: Graeme Beveridge, Josh Littlejohn, Gordon Lyon, Darren Burns and Al Kellock) Prominent figures at Scottish Rugby will come together on Saturday 9 December for Social Bite’s Sleep in t