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The Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland has made the case for the planning function in each authority to be given statutory powers to be consulted in strategic decision-making processes. In a letter to every Scottish Cabinet Secretary ahead of the imminent publication of the Scottish Governmentâ€

Orkney Housing Association (OHAL) has won a national award for Best Practice in Involving Customers at the Tenant Participation Advisory Service (TPAS) National Good Practice Awards. The award was picked up by the Association’s energy officer Robert Leslie for a project to devise easy-to-use heat

(from left) Councillor Judy Hamilton, executive spokesperson for housing and building service at Fife Council; Catherine Coutts, Castlehill Housing Association; Katie Taylor, Grampian Housing Association and presenter Sean Batty North East tenants and housing professionals are celebrating after bein

(from left) Liz Campbell (chair of westercommon community involvement group), Marie Anderson (Queens Cross tenant and Flourish house member) Jim Martin (Flourish house member) A unique new community café opened its doors this week offering fresh food and employment opportunities to a north-west Gla

Aspiring designers, engineers and inventors have just one week remaining to enter a ‘Dragons Den’ inspired event which has become a magnet for global talent. The annual Blackwood Design Awards attract both gifted amateurs and seasoned professionals to showcase innovations to change the lives of

A major new study by influential think tank the Fraser of Allander Institute has outlined the scale of City Building’s contribution to the Glasgow economy. The report, which is published this week to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the arm’s length contractor being established by Glasgow City

Dr Beth Watts Dr Beth Watts argues that the growing focus on innovative responses to homelessness must be balanced with a commitment to approaches we already know work.

The team behind Social Bite is working with EDI Group, City of Edinburgh Council and other homelessness charities on Scotland's first homeless village. The social enterprise hopes to raise £500,000 by Christmas to build 10 purpose-built homes in Granton by next summer, which will house up to 20 hom

Nicola Barclay Homes for Scotland has welcomed new figures from the Council of Mortgage Lenders (CML) showing more loans advanced to first-time buyers in Scotland during the third quarter of 2016 than any other since 2007.

Judith Sutherland, Helen Gauld and Ronnie Boyle Langstane Housing Association has been announced as an award winner at the 2016 TPAS Scotland awards for the Tenant Participation Champion of the Year 2016: Organisation and a Langstane tenant was runner up for the Individual Tenant/Resident award.

Lintel Trust, part of the Link group of social enterprises, held a successful Digital Participation event with support from ng homes and Queens Cross Housing Association.

TPAS Scotland dished out their National Good Practice Awards, sponsored by Fife Council and supported by the Scottish Government, at a celebration Gala dinner in St Andrews. The awards ceremony was held at the Fairmont Hotel on Friday during TPAS Scotland's annual conference.

Cloch Housing Association has begun work on a £1 million project to upgrade 36 flats in Aberfoyle Road Greenock in conjunction with Everwarm. The refurbishment of the three blocks of flats mainly involves insulation improvements, including the rendering and re-roofing of the blocks and enhancements

Ore Valley Housing Association (OVHA) has closed a deal with the European Energy Efficiency Fund (eeef) on a £4.6 million project to develop wind turbines and replace 200 heating systems for OVHA homes. This is eeef’s first community based transaction within the UK and the result of a four-year l

Plans have been unveiled to invest £163 million into building affordable homes in the Scottish Borders. The new five-year Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) will be discussed at a Scottish Borders Council meeting on Tuesday, 29 November.