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London’s largest housing association L&Q is set to end the use of Fixed Term Tenancies (FTTs) and instead offer open-ended assured tenancies as its preferred tenure type in a move set to provide greater security to its residents. The association will also move 8,500 existing fixed term ten

Avant Homes Scotland managing director David Knight (left) and Falkirk West MSP Michael Matheson A new starter home range by Scottish homebuilder Avant Homes has been welcomed by Michael Matheson MSP as a successful example of young people being supported onto the property ladder, as it revealed nea

Graeme Brown More people than ever before have been helped with bad housing and homelessness issues with young adults and private renters still bearing the brunt of Scotland’s housing crisis, Shelter Scotland has revealed.

(from left) chairperson James Knowles, vice chairperson John Fraser and treasurer Jenny Greener New office bearers have been appointed at Langstane Housing Association as the RSL held its 40th Annual General Meeting this week.

Incoming chair Helen Barclay and outgoing chair Jim Craigie James Craigie has retired from the role of chairman at independent living provider Abbeyfield Scotland after a decade of dedicated service on the Board.

Councillor Sandra Macdonald at the site of a new affordable housing development Aberdeen City Council has agreed funding plans for hundreds of affordable housing over the next five years and has also mapped out priorities and actions on housing supply, homelessness, housing support and fuel poverty.

Larke Adger West Granton Housing Co-operative (WGHC) chairperson Lorna Brown has announced the appointment of Larke Adger as its new CEO.

Mary O'Connell, housing development officer (right) chats with Viola Jones (left) and Donna McCutcheon at the Open Day Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) opened its doors on September 19 to celebrate Scottish Housing Day, inviting its tenants along to find out more about how the organisation

Lee Ridley performing at the Blackwood AGM Britain’s Got Talent winner Lee Ridley has performed a special show to help promote the work one of Scotland’s leading providers of care and specialist housing for people with disabilities.

Scottish Borders Council is to explore the potential of merging with NHS Borders to create a single public authority for the region. The proposals would see the combined council and health board take charge of 9,000 staff and more than £400m in public funding.

The link between inadequate housing and poor physical and mental health that costs the NHS £2.5 billion a year is among the key themes of a new publication from NHBC Foundation. This relationship with health is explored in ‘40 facts: homes, housing and house building today’, which looks at a ra

Edinburgh is due to outstrip Glasgow within the next 15 years to become Scotland’s biggest city, the chief executive of the Scottish capital’s council has said. In the opening keynote presentation at a Built Environment Networking event, Andrew Kerr said that Edinburgh’s population is due to g

Councillors have named Grampian Housing Association and community group the Torry Development Trust as preferred bidders to regenerate a former primary school site in Aberdeen. First built in 1878, the granite Victoria Road school in Torry has been the subject of numerous development plans since it

The chairman of Osprey Housing (OH) has highlighted a year of significant development activity that will mean the organisation reaches its 2021 new build target across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire well ahead of schedule. Speaking at the housing association’s AGM yesterday, held to coincide with

Hillcrest Housing Association and Bield Housing & Care celebrated Scottish Housing Day yesterday with a visit from Kevin Stewart MSP. The housing minister was welcomed to the old Eastern General site in Edinburgh which provides 231 affordable homes for the city. As well as a tour of the Hillcres