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A charity for older people is calling for urgent action to protect vulnerable residents amid rising costs and closures across Scotland’s care sector. The call follows the announcement by Renaissance Care that it plans to close its Levenhall Care Home in Musselburgh.

St Mirren fans are being encouraged to suggest names for five new streets being built on the site of the club’s former stadium. Renfrewshire Council has teamed up with Sanctuary Scotland and St Mirren FC to launch the competition #SaintsStreets.

A public information event is being held by Argyll and Bute Council to give advice on housing issues. The event, in partnership with Helensburgh Community Council, is taking place at Victoria Halls in Helensburgh on February 15.

Roseanna Cunningham The Scottish Government has given its backing to a £4.2 million community bid to purchase an island populated by a handful of people.

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Laurieston Living in Glasgow could soon add more than two dozen new homes to the scope of its ongoing development. Regeneration specialist Urban Union recently submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council which outlined plans for 28 new units.

A project to deliver 14 cottage flats in Stevenston, North Ayrshire, for Cunninghame Housing Association has now been completed. Spread across three blocks, the one and two-bedroom flats offer tailored elderly amenity accommodation for social rent while integrating with an established neighbourhood.

Construction firm CCG (Scotland) Ltd is working on behalf of Govanhill Housing Association to transform Inglefield Street in the south side of Glasgow. Since commencing works in November 2017, the Glasgow-based firm has made excellent progress on the 22-unit affordable housing development which, upo

Councillors in Dundee are to discuss plans for the latest £1 million phase of an external wall insulation (EWI) programme on another 120 homes throughout the city. The neighbourhood services committee will hear on Monday that the work at Barnes Avenue will provide warmer, more energy efficient home

A highly accessible concept house for people with disability or mobility issues was showcased by Blackwood at its AGM in 2015. Image credit: Lewis & Hickey Ltd Creating more modified homes which encourage older people to keep mentally and physically fit for longer could help save the NHS and soc

A plumber has been fined £3000 for causing a gas explosion which blew up a pensioners’ bungalow and trapped its occupants beneath the rubble. Craig Hall left a gas pipe liable to come loose in Robin and Marion Cunningham’s home in Callander, Perthshire, by crucially failing to solder a vital 90

Almost a fifth of people who seek advice from Scottish CABs say they never use the internet, with more than half unable to apply for jobs or benefits online without help, according to new research published by Citizens Advice Scotland. The data is a concern because many social security and justice s

Older and disabled residents in North Lanarkshire will continue to receive help with small repairs and tasks around the home after the council extended the contract for its Care and Repair handyperson service until April 2019. Link Group Ltd, in association with its subsidiary, Horizon Housing Assoc

North Lanarkshire Federation of Tenants and Residents Associations is holding an open meeting on February 17 to look at North Lanarkshire Council's rent restructure and chairperson's meetings and estate walkabouts. The event will provide opportunities to:

A developer and operator of private rented housing has announced a major brownfield regeneration project right in the heart of Glasgow as its first development in Scotland. PLATFORM_, which already has 580 homes under management in the joint venture in key commuter towns and employment hubs across E