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The Social Housing Safety Network Scotland is delighted to announce that you can now book your place at the ‘Tenant & Resident Safety for Social Housing Providers’ Annual Conference 2025! When is it?....... 19th & 20th November 2025

Home Group Scotland has completed its first major retrofit programme.

A planning application has been submitted to Midlothian Council for the redevelopment of the former Pomathorn Mill site in Penicuik, a brownfield site identified for residential use in the adopted Midlothian Local Development Plan.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has made a key appointment in its residential valuation team in Aberdeen with the recruitment of Paul Delaney as an associate. A graduate of Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh in 2004, where he earned an Honours Degree in Building Surveying with Building Pathology and P

West Developments has appointed Muir Timber Systems as the timber frame supplier for its latest private housing development at Balruddery in Angus. The project will deliver three identical detached homes, each featuring one and three quarter storeys and a room-in-roof design.

A joint venture between Gylemuir Capital and Housing Growth Partnership (HGP) has reached practical completion of their purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) property in Dundee. 

Shelter Scotland has welcomed Elena Whitham MSP as the newest member of its committee. Ms Whitlam brings a varied and diverse wealth of professional and personal experience to the charity’s ongoing fight for home.

Scots are being targeted by scam text messages claiming that they are about to miss out on help with their heating bills, according to a leading charity. Advice Direct Scotland, which runs the national consumer advice service consumeradvice.scot, said anyone receiving such a message should delete it

The social landlords of Drumchapel have teamed up to launch Dolly Parton's Imagination Library initiative across all of G15. 

Applications are now open for the 2025–26 Voluntary Sector Development Fund (VSDF), which helps employers cover the cost of essential qualifications for social care staff.

Homes for Scotland (HFS) has welcomed the First Minister’s renewed commitment to addressing Scotland’s housing emergency and working more closely with the sector to boost housing delivery across all tenures. In a vital high-level meeting this morning, senior leaders from across the home

Colleagues from Fife Housing Group and P6 pupils from Fair Isle Primary School in Templehall, Kirkcaldy, recently came together to host a community event for residents of local care homes. The event was part of an initiative called Rising Community Voices, which sees the social landlord partner with

Renfrewshire Council is to replace the gas supply in two of its council housing high-rise blocks with an innovative networked ground source heat pump solution, which will be the largest installation of its kind in Scotland. Residents at the two multi-storey blocks in Gallowhill, Paisley will see the

A new advice service has launched to improve support for people with sensory loss across the Forth Valley, aiming to make it easier for those with hearing or sight loss to access guidance on issues such as debt and benefits. The Forth Valley CAB Sensory Loss Advice Service (SLAS) is a collaborative

Hillcrest Futures’ Angus Young People’s Services brought the local community together on Wednesday 30 July with a free Family Party in the Park at Steele Park, Forfar.