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Kirsty Wells By Kirsty Wells, head of HouseMark Scotland

Plans have been submitted for hundreds of homes at a brownfield site on the edge of Perth. Glasgow-based consortium Perth City West has outlined proposals for up to 270 new homes on the site of the former Perth Mart off Crieff Road.

The team at Tayside MS Therapy Centre, and the people who benefit from the service, have spoken of their delight at the efforts of four Dundee businesses who cooked up a new kitchen for the centre earlier this month. Tayside MS Therapy Centre is a self-help, self-funding group of people affected by

Rosalind Main & Graeme Brown A multi-disciplinary artist from Edinburgh who recently graduated with a BA in 3D Design has turned her talents to raise funds to help people facing bad housing and homelessness.

Craig Brown launches the Hampden Snore fundraiser People are being given the chance to join Law, Bremner, Souness and Dalglish in becoming Hampden legends by taking part in a pitch-side SleepOut.

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to continue its statutory appointment of a manager and three governing body members at Ferguslie Park Housing Association for at least another seven months. The Regulator made the statutory appointments in February after it identified “serious weaknesses in govern

David Bookbinder The Scottish Social Housing Charter has largely been a success story and should not be subject to major changes, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) has said.

Grampian Housing Association has unveiled proposals to convert a derelict petrol station in Fraserburgh into new homes. Barbour’s Garage has been empty since a grocery shop run from the premises was forced to close down in January last year.

Margaret Turner, chairperson of Forth, with other project group members Forth Housing Association has started the construction of a small development of eight homes in Dunblane without the need of a Scottish Government grant.

Bill Banks, Kingdom chief executive (centre) with the trainees (from left to right) Richard Miller (Development), Morgan Anderson (Human Resources), Michael Mayes (Finance) and Nathan Connolly (Property Services – Plumbing) Kingdom Housing Association has recruited four trainees who, over the next

(from left) Craig Green of Glasgow Kelvin College, with GHA chair Gordon Sloan, centre, and GHA tenant Raymond Fletcher at the opening of the latest free computer learning centre in Toryglen, Glasgow John Wheatley Learning Network, the flourishing partnership between Glasgow Kelvin College and Wheat

Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands. The Scottish Government’s £4 million Highland Self-Build Loan Fund, which launched earlier this year, is extending opportunities for people to self and custom build homes across the region.

A benefits advice service, which has recently been joined by four local housing associations, has helped people with cancer in the Borders access over £11 million in benefits since its launch seven years ago. Developed in partnership with Macmillan Cancer Support, the Borders Macmillan Welfare Bene

(from left) Councillor Bill Grant, Councillor William Grant, Jim Whiston (Ayrshire Housing), Michael Hitchon (Fort, Seafield and Wallacetoun Community Council) and Matthew Hynes (Royal Burgh of Ayr Organist). Behind at the organ is guest organist Iain McGlinchey. Ayrshire Housing has half funded a p

Plans have been lodged for a student housing development in Glasgow which aims to help ease the pressure in the local private rented sector. If approved, the proposal will see an 185-bed student housing development on the site of the dilapidated Jumpin’ Jaks nightclub on Sauchiehall Street.