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A new housing development for older people in Moray which puts into practice the latest design and research to bring health care back into the community has been handed over to Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association. The new development at Varis Court, on Leask Road in Forres was developed in partne

Laura Fairlie By Shelter Scotland private landlord support officer Laura Fairlie

Jamie Hepburn MSP was joined at South Street by environmental Modern Apprentices, Changing Lives trainees, Wheatley and GHA staff and board members Ninety apprentices and trainees, including people from disadvantaged communities, are learning how to make Scotland’s neighbourhoods cleaner and green

Dame Elish Angiolini QC Parkhead Housing Association has announced that the Rt Honourable Dame Elish Angiolini QC will deliver the 3rd annual John Wheatley Lecture in October 2017.

Council house tenants in Moray are to be consulted over the level of rent increase for the next three years. In 2013 councillors agreed to raise rents by 4.5 per cent over the following two years followed by a 5 per cent increase for the eight years thereafter to help fund new house building

Hew Edgar Prior to the highly anticipated Planning Bill White Paper, RICS in Scotland has worked with ICE and RTPI to devise five shared priorities for planning in Scotland, writes Hew Edgar.

The Scottish Government has announced changes to Modern Apprenticeships will it said provide more flexibility for employers, including those in the public sector, while also widening access for rural communities, people with disabilities and experience of care. The measures were announced by ministe

Lochgelly has beat off stiff competition from Linwood, Gourock and Auchterarder to be named Scotland's Most Improved Town 2016. The Fife town scooped the title at the Scottish Urban Regeneration Forum (SURF) awards ceremony in Glasgow on Tuesday.

Craigdale Housing Association held another successful Christmas party for tenants earlier this month at Christ the King’s church hall in Glasgow. Everyone enjoyed a three course meal, drinks and entertainment was provided by RS Sound & Light and even Santa’s Elves made an appearance.

(from left) Simon Massey, Valerie Harty, Patricia Jackson and Derek McCulloch Scottish law firm Gillespie Macandrew has made charitable awards worth a collective £28,000 to two Scottish charities which work with children and young people.

Glasgow City Council has approved the disposal of 16 sites across the city to allow for the construction of approximately 750 new social homes. Areas to benefit from this decision include Baillieston, Barlanark, Bridgeton, Castlemilk, Cranhill, Drumchapel, Easterhouse, Kelvinbridge, Milton, Partick,

An affordable housing development in Dumfries and Galloway Eighty new affordable homes will be built in Dumfries as a result of a £6.8 million investment in charitable bonds.

Proposals for a new development that will provide retirement and affordable housing for older people in Milngavie have been submitted to East Dunbartonshire Council. Developer McCarthy & Stone proposes to build 49 retirement apartments, with access to a shared homeowners’ lounge and landscaped

Deals have been agreed to build hundreds of much-needed new homes in Midlothian and the south east of Edinburgh. Shawfair LLP has confirmed that housebuilders Bellway Homes and Miller Homes, with the support of Midlothian Council, will deliver a mixture of up to 358 new homes for sale and affordable

A new West Lothian Council housing development has been completed in Bathgate. The homes on the site of a former pub at Glasgow Road form part of the local authority’s new house building programme, which will see 1,000 new homes built by 2017 across each of the nine council wards.