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Calvay Housing Association has received a welcome boost to its Cosy Café in Glasgow thanks to the generosity of a local gas and installation company. Representatives from GasSure handed over a cheque of £2,500 to the association last week.

The affordable housing supply in Shetland is set to receive a significant boost as an islands housing association has secured funding from the Scottish Government’s Housing Infrastructure Fund. Hjaltland Housing Association will receive £20 million, which will enable the social landlord

Plans to build hundreds of homes at Donald Trump’s Aberdeenshire golf course are still in the pipeline despite years of delays, according to the son of the former US president.

The progress made by local authorities across Scotland to develop their own energy projects has been outlined in new league tables published by the STUC. The ‘Public Power League’ tables, which show Aberdeenshire topping the capacity chart with 226 megawatts of energy, aim to show the pr

The Housing Ombudsman has found severe maladministration in how Newham Council handled a damp and mould case, taking the local authority more than three years to resolve the issue and repeatedly not keeping the resident updated on repairs. The landlord has now been ordered to pay £5,400 in com

Staff at Kalisgarth and Very Sheltered Housing on Westray in Orkney are “dedicated, compassionate and genuinely care for the people they support” and those receiving care feel “respected and valued” and are “very happy” with the service, according to the Care Insp

Dumfries and Galloway Council's Finance, Procurement and Transformation Committee will hear an update later this month on the local authority’s Medium Term Financial Strategy, which outlines the budget position and financial projections over the next three years. Prudence will be required from

The non-urgent repairs service for council homes in South Lanarkshire will re-open from Monday 18 September.

Two projects in the east of Glasgow have been praised by the chair of Wheatley Foundation for helping families access affordable food. Professor Paddy Gray OBE visited the Sandyhills Larder and Ruchazie Community Pantry.

Increasing council tax on the highest bands could impact more than 80,000 low-income households, according to new analysis.

The High Court of Justiciary has tripled a fine imposed on a care home that pled guilty to an offence under the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 following the death of a resident after the Crown challenged the original level of fine as being unduly lenient.

The site of the former Auchinairn Primary School in Bishopbriggs is to be developed for affordable housing, a new council report has confirmed. A report to East Dunbartonshire Council’s PNCA Committee this Thursday will confirm the local authority's decision earlier this summer to tr

The site of a former day care centre in Clydebank could be transformed into social housing after it was sold to a developer. West Dunbartonshire Council has sold a site at Auchentoshan Estate for a price of £225,000 plus VAT. The site was home to a day care centre until it closed in

The transformation of Whitlawburn is now complete thanks to a unique partnership approach by South Lanarkshire Council, CCG, hub South West and West Whitlawburn Housing Co-op.

Community groups in West Dunbartonshire have benefited from more than £103,000 in council grants to support vulnerable and disadvantaged residents.