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Linda Lee (left) receiving her long service award from Bield chair Susan Napier Dedicated staff members have been honoured at Bield’s 2017 AGM for their service to the housing and care provider for Scotland’s older population.

Members of Hawthorn Housing Co-operative in Possilpark celebrated their 30th anniversary with a community cinema experience on Scottish Housing Day last week. Patrons to the cinema enjoyed popcorn and images of the area from over the last 60 years. These images showed the transformation that the com

Housing minister Kevin Stewart has today announced £90,000 to support pilot projects to assist people wanting to build their own homes with a new Challenge Fund. Speaking at the closing event of the Festival of Architecture in Edinburgh, Mr Stewart will confirm the new fund will be open for applica

More than 40 homes have been unlocked in by East Dunbartonshire Council's Corporate Fraud Team. Throughout 2016/17, the team received 248 reports of alleged fraud; up 27% on the previous year.

Angus Council is placing more choice in the hands of people looking for social housing after agreeing to move from a register based on a traditional points-based allocation to a system of choice based lettings. Instead of matching people to available properties the decision by the local authority’

(from left) Aaron Hughes, Ann Budge, Gary Locke, Josh Littlejohn, Simon Murray, Leeann Dempster and Brandon Barker Edinburgh’s biggest football clubs will come together on December 9 to Sleep in the Park and raise money for homeless people across Scotland.

John Cole CBE Housing minister Kevin Stewart has announced two leading experts as the chairs of the groups that will take forward a review of Scottish building standards in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

A development of 115 new homes in the Leith area of Edinburgh has been granted planning permission with a number of the units designated for affordable housing. The approval of Barratt Homes’ planning application will result in a mix of one, two and three bedroom apartments and colony homes to the

Image of the Grenfell Tower fire courtesy of Natalie Oxford via Twitter Glasgow City Council has been criticised in the Scottish Parliament, after it emerged that the extent of the combustible cladding used in the city should be known by Friday.

Thirty new legal members and 19 ordinary members have been appointed to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland and assigned to the Housing and Property Chamber. The announcement follows a recruitment round by the Judicial Appointments Board for Scotland (JABS), which invited applications from any suit

More than 600 new homes will be built by Angus Council and local housing associations in the county over the next five years, with the support of a £25 million Scottish Government funding package. The announcement this week came as the council’s communities committee approved the Local Housing St

Proposals to overhaul the planning system in Scotland are unlikely to have any positive effect in meeting the demands and aspirations of communities and the development industry, councillors have told the Scottish Government. Aberdeenshire Council’s infrastructure services committee (ISC) has writ

Homeless Action Scotland (HAS) has today announced its support for Shelter Scotland’s Homelessness: Far From Fixed campaign ahead of the two organisations giving evidence to a Scottish Parliament committee on homelessness. HAS is the latest high-profile group to sign up to the campaign after the A

Kingdom Housing Association, together with Curtis Jones Property Developments, has announced its intention to apply for planning permission in the coming weeks for a £4.5 million affordable housing development at Aberdour Road, Dunfermline. The proposal is for some 42 flatted homes for mid-market a

With homelessness moving towards the frontline of Scottish politics, Adam Lang says delivering a ‘Housing First’ model needs sustained support as part of a whole system response and should not be mistaken for a silver bullet. The recently published Programme for Government outlined a pledge to r