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A letting agent has been removed from North Ayrshire Council’s landlord register after flouting rules protecting the deposits of tenants. The council’s licensing committee heard that Colvin Houston Ltd breached rules on tenancy deposits 51 times.

Aberdeen City Council has broken ground on a £13.5 million housing development at Manor Walk. The former playing fields in the Middlefield area will be home to 80 new council properties and will feature a mixture of flats and houses.

Kingdom Housing Association and Citizens Advice and Rights Fife (CARF), through the Macmillan Fife Welfare Benefit Partnership, have launched a new partnership aimed at supporting tenants in Fife affected by cancer. Norah Smith, director of housing and care at Kingdom, said: “We recognise that ten

Bryan Powell By Bryan Powell, private landlord support officer at Shelter Scotland

Councillor O’Neill and Ms Constance chat to Syrian refugees during a visit to The Welcoming Equalities secretary Angela Constance and President of COSLA Councillor David O’Neill have praised the efforts of communities and councils across Scotland after confirming that more than 1,000 Syrian refu

A new eBuildingStandards system that streamlines applications through one web portal has gone live. eBuildingStandards follows the launch of the improved ePlanning service in January, and signals the latest development in streamlining public services in the digital age. This new service makes it qui

Caroleanne from Simon Community Scotland's Newlands service and Richard from The Bike Station A practical attempt to tackle homelessness took place at a bicycle recycling workshop this week under the watchful eye of a charity marking its 50th birthday.

Bield's Westport sheltered housing development in Linlithgow is looking for social activity assistants to help organise opportunities for social interaction within the development and the wider community. Emma Sowerby, manager at Westport, said: “Social activity assistants and lunch club assistant

Scottish social landlords are continuing to perform well across almost all of the standards and outcomes of the Scottish Social Housing Charter with nine out of ten tenants satisfied with the homes and services their landlord provides, a new report has found. The national analysis of landlords’ pe

Pat Cahill The three Scottish housing organisations owned by Sanctuary Group have formally merged to operate as Sanctuary Scotland.

Photo Credit: Google Maps A new Scottish Government publication into deprivation has identified Ferguslie Park in Paisley as the most deprived area of Scotland.

The area outlined in red shows where the eight new houses at will be situated Argyll Community Housing Association (ACHA) has confirmed it will be going on site next month to build eight new family homes in Glenshellach.

CIH is in a unique position to look at how housing policy is changing across the UK. With a policy presence in each nation it can take a look at the big picture. So what’s happening, what’s different, and what’s the same? Jon Barnes takes a look at the findings of CIH’s recent briefing for m

Caledonia Housing Association has been shortlisted for the Service Business of the Year accolade by the Courier Business Awards. The Association is one of three finalists in the category in which businesses must not only demonstrate a strong customer focus and high customer satisfaction but be commi

Derek Mackay The Scottish Government’s Council Tax Reduction scheme is giving support to almost 500,000 low income households across the country, new figures have found.