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A decision by East Dunbartonshire Council to reject a new housing development in Milton of Campsie has been overturned by Scottish Ministers. An application by CALA Management/Ashfield Land to build 57 new homes on a greenbelt site near Birdston Road was refused planning permission in January on gro

The result of an independent poll commissioned by Clydebank Housing Association (CHA) has revealed that 94% of its tenants are satisfied with the overall service they receive. Research Resource carried out a face-to-face tenant satisfaction survey with 430 (40%) of CHA tenants.

(from left) Craig Thompson (Hillcrest energy advice worker), Euan Hird (Hillcrest energy advice worker), Colin Martin (Police Scotland), Angela Martin (Hillcrest tenant support services admin) and Emily McCulley (Hillcrest tenant participation officer) Members of the energy advice team at Hillcrest

Owners of Craigie’s Farm and Café, John and Kirsteen Sinclair, shake hands with Iain Gordon, chief executive of Bethany Christian Trust, which has been chosen as the business’ official charity partnership for the next three years Craigie’s Farm and Restaurant is planting seeds of hope by part

West Dunbartonshire Council has been named the Best Public Sector Employer in the UK in the 2017 UK Top Employers for Working Families Awards. The council won the prestigious national award for its flexible and family-friendly policies at a special awards ceremony in London.

Jeane Freeman More than a quarter of a million individual low-income households have received awards totalling £132.6 million from the Scottish Welfare Fund since its inception in 2013.

Grampian Housing Association has unveiled plans to transform the site of a former Aberdeenshire school into affordable homes. The proposals to create 27 rented homes for families and individuals at the C-listed Old School site in Ballater will be unveiled to the public next month.

The confidence of employers in the Scottish construction industry has taken a hit as fears over future work prospects grow, according to the latest Scottish Construction Monitor. The quarterly survey of the membership of the Scottish Building Federation (SBF), which represents hundreds of building c

Fanchea Kelly The Care Inspectorate has awarded five star reviews for two of Blackwood’s services in Aberdeen.

Horizon Housing Association has published a University of Stirling research report on a pilot study of effectiveness in letting adapted social housing. The study successfully designed and tested a research method for evaluating the effectiveness of letting procedures for adapted housing, using a co-

Clyde Valley Housing Association received planning permission to convert the former Carnegie Library in Coatbridge into residential flats last year Property owners in Coatbridge are being invited to apply for grants under the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) to fund external improvement

Residents are being invited to submit their views on the Highland Council's draft Local Housing Strategy. The initiative sets out aims for housing in the region over the next five years. Members of the public have until August 18 to submit their views.

An Edinburgh project that provides English language lessons to Syrian refugees More than a quarter of all Syrian refugees who have arrived in the UK in the past two years have settled north of the Border.

A new £150 million fund has been launched to help make households in Great Britain warmer, healthier and cheaper to heat. The Warm Homes Fund will be run over 3-years and will provide capital funding for the installation of affordable heating solutions in fuel poor households who do not use mains g

Plans to transform a B-listed former nursing home into flats have been approved. Kirkton House, near Kirkton of Skene, is to be turned into 17 flats, under the plans from developer Kirk Harrison, the Evening Express has reported.