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Liz McGinniss (left) and Anne Marie Brown Craigdale Housing Association director Liz McGinniss has tendered her resignation and left the association after 26 years.

West Dunbartonshire Council has achieved the national housing standard for more than 9,400 of its homes after a successful £81 million investment. The project, which is the largest scale housing investment in the council’s history, included replacing 1,700 bathrooms and 800 kitchens and upgrading

Developers have won planning permission to transform an ageing Perthshire Catholic school into council flats. The B-listed St Stephen’s building in Blairgowrie closed its doors six years ago when classes moved into the town’s community campus.

The UK government’s spending watchdog has criticised the Department for Work & Pensions (DWP) for its failure to anticipate problems in its implementation of welfare reform. The National Audit Office has called for the DWP to use the hard lessons it learned from implementing its recent program

Alex Neil Many people accessing benefits are living in constant fear that further cuts will push them into "crisis situations", a new study has found.

The High Court has ordered that a judicial review challenge to the benefit cap and its impact upon disabled people and their carers should proceed to a full hearing, and that this hearing must take place urgently. The secretary of state for work and pensions, Iain Duncan Smith, unsuccessfully argued

Tenant scrutiny is increasingly a ‘talking point’ for housing in Scotland with the country having its own unique history in respect of the development of tenant engagement, tenant involvement and tenant participation. The Scottish Social Housing Charter, the regulatory regime and existing requir

(from left) Alan Duncan, River Clyde Homes’ board member; Nicole with Jay and Kristopher; Albert Henderson OBE, River Clyde Homes’ board member A Port Glasgow family has moved into their new River Clyde Homes property after 10 months of watching it being built from the window of their old house.

Dr Martin Wersing House prices in Aberdeen could hold the key to predicting the future price of oil, according to academics at the University of Aberdeen.

A Dundee community health boss has been appointed to the new chief officer role with the city’s integrated health and social care partnership. David Lynch, general manager of the Dundee Community Health Partnership since 2005, will take up his new role from today.

Dundee energy contractor Sustainable Energy Scotland (SES) has called in administrators after mounting debt and market volatility. Managing director Callum Milne told The Courier that the voluntary step to bring in Begbies Traynor, which has resulted in the loss of 40 jobs, had been taken with “re

A survey of consumers who have joined the Big Energy Switch has revealed that rural regions are being hit hardest by the energy affordability crisis in Scotland. The survey data, collected from the 13,000+ consumers who have joined the campaign paints a grim picture of energy affordability in rural

Work has started on the first phase of a much-anticipated affordable housing development which is set to bring 37 quality new homes to the Alness community by May next year. The £4.7 million Dalmore development will be delivered on behalf of Albyn Housing Society and the Highland Council by O’Bri

By Adam van Lohuizen, senior economic analyst at Shelter The impact of the cuts already made by the coalition government has been severe. And the government has pledged to make a further £12 billion reduction in welfare spending by 2017-18. But the task of making these cuts has got a whole lot hard

A CGI of the Montrose Woods homes Skye based house builder R.House has launched its largest multi-unit development to date with four units dedicated to social housing.