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Gary Haldane Kingdom Housing Association has congratulated staff members who have recently gained new professional qualifications while working with Fife's largest housing association.

Andrew Saunders, chief executive of Ore Valley HA presenting the trophy to the winning team from Rutherglen & Cambuslang HA made up of Stuart Freeland, Jim Kerr, Ronnie Cunningham & Charles Freeland This year’s CIH Scotland charity golf tournament, hosted by 2014 winners Ore Valley Housing

Glen Oaks senior project officer Louise McNicol (left) and project officer Lynne-anne Ferguson with plans for the new homes Families in Glasgow’s Arden are in line for a £6.4 million housing boost after a major new development was announced by Glen Oaks Housing Association.

Tom Barclay Tom Barclay FRICS has been appointed as co-chair of the Scottish Government’s Joint Housing Policy and Delivery Group.

Kevin Stewart Around 50 per cent of capital expenditure made by local authorities in Scotland, totalling £1.2 billion, has been invested in education and housing infrastructure, new figures have shown.

Pam Russel and tenants from Stornoway receiving their RTO certificate Trust Housing Association combined its AGM and Tenants’ Conference for the first time last month at the Glasgow City Hotel.

Launching the Sharing Lives, Sharing Spaces project A new initiative promoting engagement with the Chinese community in a north Glasgow neighbourhood has been launched by Queens Cross Housing Association.

David Mundell The Scottish Government will have the power to reverse cuts to working tax credits in Scotland as early as 2017, according to a senior Whitehall source.

New affordable homes could be built in the centre of Fort William after the Highland Council agreed a deal to buy surplus land from Tesco. The local authority purchased a site surplus to the supermarket’s requirements in Fort William for £2 million to make provision for a new hospital for NHS Hig

Nick Pollard Kingdom Housing Association Limited has signed a two year agreement for the management of its commercial and office utility services, electricity, gas and water across its sites with Business Cost Consultants Limited of Glasgow (BCC).

The Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) has welcomed a new report which calls for 12,000 new affordable homes each year in Scotland. The research, launched yesterday by Shelter Scotland, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) and CIH Scotland, is the fir

David Mundell The Scottish Government is to receive an extra £500 million as a result of UK government plans to boost infrastructure funding, Scottish secretary David Mundell confirmed yesterday.

David Orr The majority of housing associations in England have voted in favour of making a voluntary deal with the UK government to extend its Right to Buy policy.

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Thomas Ashdown As the Scottish Government presses ahead with proposals for rent controls and details of the Private Tenancies Bill are expected to be published this week, average rents in the country have started to head south, according to new figures.