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Mike Galloway The shortlist for Scotland’s premier home building industry awards has been announced as trade body Homes for Scotland gears up for its largest ever ceremony celebrating the sector’s achievements.

Families have been stopped from moving into their new homes at a multi-million pound development in the Borders after traces of deadly gas were detected. STV has reported that work was halted at Easter Langlee in Galashiels, Selkirkshire, after scientists found both methane and carbon dioxide in bor

River Clyde Homes’ Customer Senate has produced its first scrutiny report which looked at how the Inverclyde based housing association re-let some of its empty properties. Almost two years ago River Clyde Homes started a programme called ‘Count Me In’ to give customers a real say in developing

Unemployed people from across Dundee celebrated completing a four week training course that has given them the skills they need to deliver first class customer service in a variety of hospitality roles. Among the 16 participants was Craig Fisher, from Dundee, who has been unemployed for 5 years.

A Day Care service run by Bield has been blown away by the generosity shown by a grateful daughter who left £10,000 in her will as a thanks for all the help it had given her mother over ten years ago. Danette McColl-Stobie left the substantial figure to Munro Court in Glasgow when she passed away t

(left to right) Emma Horne, systems and admin manager at CAN and Robert Carnochan, DGHP Annandale and Eskdale DMC Member An Annan-based project to help people with furnishing their new homes has picked up a grant from Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership’s (DGHP’s) Tenant Community Fund.

Name and location of development: Central Bellsmyre - three sites at Aitkenbar Drive/Auchenreoch Avenue, Penniecroft Avenue and Whiteford Crescent. Housing Association/Council: West Dunbartonshire Council

Name and location of development: Doocot Court, Perth (phases 1 & 2) Housing Association/Council: Hillcrest Housing Association (HHA), Northern Housing Company (NHC) and Perth and Kinross Council (PKC)

Name and location of development: Sandy Loan, Broughty Ferry Housing Association/Council: Delivered under the National Housing Trust initiative

The BBC commissioned two artists, Becky and Louise (also known as Good Wives and Warriors), http://www.goodwivesandwarriors.co.uk/ to create an art work on a gable end in the city to celebrate the Commonwealth Games. Parkhead Housing Association was chosen as the preferred landlord not only because

Fairfield Housing Co-operative is viewed as a regeneration exemplar in the UK with challenging architecture, innovation and sustainability as key drivers. Fairfield has moved on to other regeneration projects in Muirton Park and successful city centre developments with a further 150 homes planned in

'Petals in Metal' Station Road, Cairneyhill – Kingdom Housing Association – completed August 2011

Fife Bench, Fife Housing Association Alliance – Completed 2012 Designers Chris Eckerlsey and William Warren were commissioned to create a distinctive and contemporary bench to be sited in “places where people like to sit”.

Fewer than half of people aged between 20 and 45 are making financial plans to save for a house while the number of those saving for a deposit has fallen, according to a new report. The Generation Rent report from the Halifax found that three-quarters of people in the same age bracket worry they wil

A single mother-of-five has successfully challenged a council’s decision that it had discharged its duty to house her homeless family by offering accommodation in another local authority area more than 50 miles away. The UK Supreme Court ruled that the council had acted unlawfully and quashed the