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Gentoo has announced it must make a number of “inevitable redundancies” as it looks to make up an estimated shortfall of £72 million. The Sunderland housing group, which formed a partnership with West of Scotland Housing Association in April 2013, said it needed to save £18m a year for the nex

A masterplan which will see a major northward expansion of Elgin over the next two decades has been approved by Moray councillors. The blueprint for Findrassie has been prepared by the landowner, Pitgaveny Estate, in partnership with Moray Council and provides for around 1500 new homes in addition t

Residents at Oakwood Park, Galashiels Eildon Housing Association’s sheltered housing service has received an excellent report following a recent inspection by the Care Inspectorate.

The Inverclyde Common Housing Register (ICHR) is to close its current housing list from 31 August 2015 as it makes changes to its application process. From 1st September, applicants wishing to apply for housing with the ICHR will need to re-register online when a new on-line form will be available a

Seven-spot ladybird (credit William Richardson) Dunedin Canmore has teamed up with the Central Scotland Green Network Trust (CSGNT) to provide more gardening opportunities for its tenants.

Chairman Nick Kuenssberg and chief executive Alastair Davis in their Broughton Place office Social Investment Scotland, which invests funds put up by banks and the Scottish and UK governments, has revealed that it provided a record £7.5 million to 45 social enterprises, charities and community orga

Michael Cameron The Scottish Housing Regulator has published revised regulatory guidance that will streamline its information requirements of RSLs.

EVH has announced that three finalists have been selected from nominations received from all over Scotland, to progress to the final round of this year’s Helen McGregor Award, sponsored by Cunninghame Housing Association. The award sets out to recognise the dedication and commitment that individua

A theatre company currently performing at the Gilded Balloon in Edinburgh has created a piece of activist theatre which aims to make some noise about the housing crisis facing the UK. Developed with Battersea Arts Centre and The Civic in Barnsley, The Focus E15 Mothers’ Story hopes to rally local

Billy Hunter Everyone at West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative (WWHC) has been deeply saddened by the untimely passing of Billy Hunter, an ex-chair of WWHC, at Hairmyres Hospital East Kilbride on 22nd August.

Graeme Brown Shelter Scotland has cautioned against Discretionary Housing Payments (DHP) being viewed as a long-term solution to Scotland’s housing crisis after new figures revealed a 37 per cent increase in the number of awards.

A think tank has unveiled radical plans which would give local authorities the power to scrap council tax and business rates and replace them with a range of other levies. Reform Scotland has called for local authorities to have complete control over the local taxes of council tax and non-domestic r

Associates from the Joint Improvement Team (JIT) facilitated two workshops of 50 delegates about the integration of health and social care at the TIS conference on June 6. The workshops, facilitated by Simon Carr and Jill Pritchard of the JIT, invited delegates to consider integration from the persp

Councillor Sam Love Thousands of people struggling from the affects of welfare reform received over £29 million worth of help, thanks to North Lanarkshire Council's housing and social work team.

A new £5 million extra care housing complex for adults with learning disabilities was officially opened last week by Aberdeenshire Provost Hamish Vernal. The building situated on St James’s Place, Inverurie, just across from Inverurie Hospital, incorporates 24 self-contained apartments with assoc