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East Renfrewshire Council has continued its commitment to delivering additional affordable housing in the area with the renovation of a property in Barrhead. The property in Divernia Way previously lay derelict for almost ten years following extensive fire damage. It has now been completely renovate

It was another successful annual North Lanarkshire Council tenants’ conference, with 96% of participants rating it good or very good, and the workshops and having ‘your say’ segments proving most popular. Tenants and residents came along to the conference to hear first-hand about key housing i

The Pentland team has been fundraising for various charities all year Pentland Housing Association housing officer, Yvonne Gunn, is preparing to participate in Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park next week, her second sleep-out event in a matter of weeks.

An 86-year-old from Glasgow, who is a tenant at Bield’s Loch Laidon Court development, recently remembered his fellow veterans on Remembrance Sunday in George Square. Private Andrew Glassford served in the 1st Battalion Black Watch in both Korea and Kenya between 1952 and 1954.

(from left) Back row: Alastair Dee, Colin Macdonald, Gill Henry, Kevin Scott, Nile Istephan. Front row: Cathie Fancy, Kevin Stewart, Councillor Mark Rowley Kevin Stewart, minister for local government and housing, has offered his support to an innovative partnership agreement between Eildon Housing

John McNairney The Scottish Government’s Chief Planner is to withdraw the housing and infrastructure draft planning delivery advice from 1 December 2017.

The Quay Team (Arek Chudak, Artur Lisiecki and Paul Wylie) at the Vennel, one of Edinburgh’s most famous stairwells Quay Community Improvements, a subsidiary company of Port of Leith Housing Association, is celebrating its first anniversary with an impressive list of achievements under its belt, i

Work has started on an Angus Council project to build modern, energy efficient, high quality homes under the gaze of Arbroath Abbey. The 40 new affordable council homes for rent that comprise the Abbey Quarter development replace four blocks of empty council flats that became increasingly unpopular

Jon Sparkes After First Minster Nicola Sturgeon and housing minister Kevin Stewart approved the first recommendations of the Scottish Government’s Homelessness & Rough Sleeping Action Group which will help more people sleeping rough this winter, chair of the Group Jon Sparkes explains more.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has gained a detailed planning consent from the City of Edinburgh Council to build 149 new homes on land off Candlemaker's Park in the Gilmerton area of the city. The 15.8 acre site is a brownfield site on the south edge of Edinburgh that is already identified for housing

Aberdeen City Council has granted a building warrant to demolish houses to allow £30 million proposals to tackle a notorious junction to progress. The warrant, first lodged with the local authority in October, will see 31 buildings flattened to allow the Haudagain roundabout to go ahead.

Minus three degrees (from left) Helen, Susan and Joyce Fairfield Housing Co-operative’s corporate manager Susan Bell, finance officer Joyce Clark and housing officer Helen Ross are the latest housing professionals to sign up to Sleep in the Park in Princess Gardens on December 9.

A vending machine which gives out free food and clothes to homeless people has been launched for the first time in the UK in the run up to Christmas. A new charity, Action Hunger, plans to stock the machine in Nottingham with excess produce donated by supermarkets, such as fresh fruit and sandwiches

Organisations across the social housing sector are being encouraged to take advantage of a free, online marketing toolkit to help promote and increase Direct Debit sign-up rates. The toolkit, launched earlier this year by Bacs Payment Schemes Limited (Bacs), the company behind Direct Debit in the UK

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon visited Streetwork to announce the plans New actions recommended by the Scottish Government’s Homelessness and Rough Sleeping Action Group to further tackle rough sleeping this winter are to be put into place thanks to new funds.