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Alex Rowley Scottish Labour is to use an upcoming Holyrood debate to call for a new target to eliminate fuel poverty after the Scottish Government failed to meet its pledge to eradicate the problem.

The winners of Scotland’s annual awards for excellence in housing were announced on Friday night at an awards dinner sponsored by Utilita at Double Tree by Hilton in Glasgow. The Team of the Year Award was awarded to North Lanarkshire Council for its Syrian resettlement project, while Campaign of

Homes set for Blackbyres Road in Barrhead Plans have been unveiled to build 120 new affordable homes in East Renfrewshire over the next three to five years.

Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has completed 10 new homes in Connel near Oban. The development provides a mixture of family homes for rent and will be named after the late Harry Powell, who passed away this year and was a stalwart of the local community, giving over 50 years voluntary s

Cartsdyke Apartments River Clyde Homes is unveiling a new look for Cartsdyke Apartments, the 12-storey block in the east end of Greenock.

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has been awarded £340k from the Scottish Government as part of the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes Capital Acceleration Programme (HEEPS-CAP). HHP will use the funding to carry out room-in-roof insulation to 68 homes before April 2017.

LinkLiving Ltd has successfully secured grant funding from the Department for Work and Pensions to run eight employability courses during 2017. Awarded from the Flexible Support Fund, the money will be used to provide 13 weeks’ employability support to 80 unemployed people aged 25 and over in both

Councillor David McBride West Dunbartonshire Council has published a report to update tenants and customers on its housing performance.

(from left) Bill Banks Kingdom chief executive, Ian Campbell chair Kirkcaldy Foodbank and Freya Lees Kingdom chair Kingdom Housing Association has made a £300 donation to Kirkcaldy Foodbank to assist the charity in its mission to ensure that nobody in the Kirkcaldy area goes hungry in times of cris

(from left) Joe Doherty, John Anderson, Rt Hon. Tricia Marwick, Lawrie West, Elisabeth Cranfield Homelessness charity Frontline Fife welcomed the Rt Hon. Tricia Marwick as its new patron at its 2016 AGM and Lawrie West as its new chair.

A Scottish letting agency has been recognised for its ongoing commitment to placing ethics and social change at the centre of its business model after being named Social Enterprise of the Year, the top prize at this year’s Social Enterprise Awards Scotland. Glasgow-based Homes for Good is a brand-

A retirement housing development in Haddington is looking for a volunteer to provide valuable computing support for its tenants. Bield’s The Butts development is looking for a volunteer who will be involved in the popular ‘Silver Surfer’ project which helps tenants get to grips with modern tec

Moray Hunter Over 500 sleeping bags are being sought by a Scots homelessness charity as part of a wider appeal urging the general public to donate rucksacks and handbags full of essential items, such as food, clothes and toiletries.

Tenants who were facing eviction from their homes in Leith are being allowed to stay after a deal was agreed to sell the properties to Places for People Scotland. The Trustees of the Miss Agnes Hunter Trust, which owned the flats in Lorne Street, had been looking to sell the 92 properties since Octo

Housebuilder Springfield Properties has entered a new partnership with Dunedin Canmore to deliver 80 new homes in Edinburgh over the next three years. The family business has been working on the £20 million Muirhouse development in the Capital since 2013 and has already handed over 122 homes to a n