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Social Bite co-founder Josh Littlejohn and HFS chief executive Nicola Barclay announce a new charity partnership which will see members of the HFS team sleep out in Princes Street Gardens Industry body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced its support of the work undertaken to end homelessness thro

Homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust is giving festive shoppers the opportunity to help save a life this winter by purchasing ethical Christmas trees. Sustainably grown in Scotland, shoppers can buy a Grade One Nordman fir tree, and the funds raised will directly support the charity’s Care

The partnership between ANCHO and Cairn Housing Association has begun in earnest after it received final consent from the Scottish Housing Regulator and the Financial Conduct Authority.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has launched a new plan which sets out its support and promotion of British Sign Language (BSL). Unveiled on October 31, the plan will see the Regulator make its information more accessible to BSL users and have registered BSL/English interpreters available for meeting

Sanctuary's Andrea Campbell and Lindsay Forrest with the CIH Scotland Excellence award Sanctuary’s £60 million transformation of Glasgow’s Anderston has been formally recognised with CIH Scotland’s Excellence In Regeneration award.

Around 100 new council homes are to be built in the Tannahill area of Ferguslie Park after plans were confirmed for a £14 million new build development. Construction of the new homes is expected to start in 2020, with funding from Renfrewshire Council and the Scottish Government.

LAR chief executive Ann Leslie LAR Housing Trust is set to complete another development in Aberdeen, its seventh in the area.

Price protection for 11 million customers on poor value default tariffs will come into force on 1 January 2019, Ofgem has confirmed. Ofgem has set the final level of the price cap, following the regulator’s statutory consultation published on September 6, at £1137 per year for a typical dual fuel

The Highland Council has published updated guidance on financial contributions required from new developments towards new infrastructure and services. The Developer Contributions Supplementary Guidance now forms part of the council’s development plan which is used to determine planning application

East Renfrewshire Council has launched an ambitious gas heating replacement programme, which will see over £1 million invested across the area. The programme will install modern heating systems in hundreds of council homes, replacing out-dated electric storage heating and gas-fired boilers with mor

Councillors have deferred a decision on plans to build 121 homes in an Aberdeenshire village amid concerns over local infrastructure. Barratt North Scotland had proposed the development of 109 houses and 12 flats on a site near Park Place in Newtonhill.

Community groups are being invited to bid for up to £5,000 to help transform their local area as part of West Dunbartonshire Council’s Community Budgeting initiative. There has already been significant investment in a broad range of community-led projects across West Dunbartonshire as part of thr

Jeff Fairburn Housebuilder Persimmon has announced the departure of its chief executive Jeff Fairburn amid the long-running controversy over his £75 million bonus package.

The third quarter of 2018 has seen four new clients sign up to HUB Manager to oversee their asset management and SHQS/EESSH compliance process which takes the total number of assets under management to 33,000 and means that over 10% of all Registered Social Landlords in Scotland are now using HUB. â

North Lanarkshire Council has included recently approved additional projects to provide more, modern and affordable new homes for the region’s residents into its next Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) which has now been submitted to the Scottish Government. The SHIP for 2019-20/2023-24 aims