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Parkhead chief executive Jim Strang Parkhead Housing Association celebrated its birthday at its 40th Annual General Meeting on Scottish Housing Day last week.

Frances Beattie, chair of Larkfield, with new committee member Suzanne Gallagher Larkfield Housing Association celebrated its achievements over the past year at its Annual General Meeting last week.

Victoria Nixon Renters in Edinburgh have topped a list of unclaimed tenancy deposits with the city having twice the number of unclaimed deposits than Glasgow, and three times more than Aberdeen.

(from left) Peter Cameron (West Lothian Council), Craig Jardine (West Dunbartonshire Council), Graham McDowall (River Clyde Homes), Clive Feeney (SPA), Susan Wilson (Cairn HA), Josh Littlejohn (guest speaker from Social Bite), Zoe Fance (South Ayrshire Council), Audrey Faulds (South Lanarkshire Coun

Linkwood View residents with children from Magic Roundabout The first retirees to move into a brand new housing complex for older people in Elgin received an extra special warm welcome when children from the local after school club visited for the afternoon.

The private rented sector now accounts for 15% of all households in Scotland The proportion of households in Scotland’s private rented sector (PRS) continued to grow last year as the social rented sector remained steady, according to new findings.

More and more social tenants in Scotland are struggling to pay the first month’s rent in advance as a result of welfare reforms, making it even more difficult for them to find and keep a home, according to two leading housing organisations. Shelter Scotland and the Scottish Federation of Housing A

It was all change on the Abertay Housing Association committee last week as the Association held its twenty first AGM at Fintry Parish Church in Dundee. Following the formal business of the report from chair Dorothy Taylor and a presentation of annual accounts, the event saw five committee members s

Gill Henry, head of business development at The Cruden Group and project director of the Social Bite Village In February of this year, Gill Henry, head of business development at The Cruden Group, agreed to take on the role of project director for the Social Bite Village in Edinburgh.

Provost of North Lanarkshire, Councillor Jean Jones, officially opens the latest completed housing development at Oakdene Avenue, Tannochside The official opening of the new council housing development in Tannochside, the eighteenth development delivered by North Lanarkshire Council, was marked with

Tenants have recently moved into brand new Perth & Kinross Council homes at Glenearn Road in Perth. The new modern blocks, which contain four one-bedroom flats and four two-bedroom flats, welcomed their first occupants this week.

An alliance of ten organisations from the planning and placemaking sector in Scotland has launched a new campaign to help influence new planning guidelines ahead of the upcoming Planning Bill. The Scottish Alliance for People and Places, which includes COSLA and the Scottish Federation of Housing As

Henry McLeish Former First Minister and town planner Rt Hon Henry McLeish on the launch of the Scottish Alliance for People and Places.

(from left) Elaine Byrne, director, Scotland’s Housing Network; James Coutts, service development and support manager, East Lothian Council; Ilene Campbell, chief executive, TIS East Lothian Council has achieved a Gold accreditation for scrutiny from TIS in partnership with Scotland’s Housing Ne

Andrew McFarlane Andrew McFarlane makes the case for UK-wide regulation to make sprinklers mandatory in all new build houses.