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East Renfrewshire Council is undertaking an assessment into the requirement and need for mid-market rent (MMR) housing in the local authority area. MMR homes are designed to assist those who are on low to modest incomes, struggling to afford private renting or home ownership and for people who want

Prioritising customers and putting them at the heart of service delivery has resulted in Kingdom Housing Association achieving Customer Service Excellence Accreditation. The prestigious award comes just one year after a centralised Customer Service Team was established at the Fife-based association.

Residents of Loreburn Housing Association in Stranraer have been given some welcome help with the issuing of supermarket and homeware vouchers gifted by Stranraer Development Trust. The Trust has donated Morrison’s supermarket and Home Hardware vouchers to a value of £3,775 to help Loreb

Work will begin this week on a £334,000 project to preserve the heritage of another historic building in Lochgilphead. The building at 3-17 Colchester Square is the second major project to benefit from funding from the Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS). The funding package also incl

Orkney Islands Council is planning a drop-in information day focusing on the short-term lets licensing application process.

An innovative new partnership has been launched that will see empty homes in Argyll and Bute being brought back into use to help to tackle the shortage of affordable housing for health and social care workers across the region. The two-year project is being funded by the Scottish Empty Homes Partner

West Town Edinburgh Ltd, the development consortium which owns more than 200 acres of prime development land to the west of Edinburgh, has agreed a joint approach with the City of Edinburgh Council to deliver a major new ’20-minute neighbourhood’ for the city.

West Highland Housing Association (WHHA), one of the partners in the Link Group of companies, has recently awarded a contract for repairs and maintenance following a successful tender. Argyll Homes for All (AHFA), the repairs and maintenance subsidiary of Argyll Community Housing Association, were a

With two in every five occupied homes in Scotland failing to meet quality standards, with the highest failure rates relating to energy efficiency, construction industry experts are calling on the Scottish Government to develop a long-term, joined-up retrofitting strategy to urgently tackle the probl

Scourie Community Development Company (SCDC) has received £20,000 from The Highland Council to take forward plans to build eight affordable homes on community-owned land. The project, led by SCDC with support from the Communities Housing Trust, also received £15,000 in feasibility fundin

Applications for the Single East Ayrshire Common Housing Register (SEARCH) are now available online. Online SEARCH is a new platform developed by East Ayrshire Council in partnership with software company MRI. New applicants can now create an account, apply for housing, manage their application, vie

An MSP has called for the Scottish Parliament to instruct an independent KC-led inquiry into some of the Scottish Housing Regulator’s interventions and approach to regulation in general. In a recent speech to the Scottish Parliament, Stirling constituency representative Evelyn Tweed said she f

North Ayrshire Council is planning the development of 202 new homes at Ayrshire Central, Irvine. Documents have been prepared to allow local people and interested parties to view the revised draft plans for the development and review the feedback from the initial draft plans consultation event.

A report from the Accounts Commission, warning of “severe strain” on local authority finances, points to a deepening housing emergency according to Shelter Scotland. According to the Local Government in Scotland Overview 2023, Scotland’s councils must radically change how they

Glasgow City Mission has published a report on its Overnight Welcome Centre (OWC) which ran from 1 December 2022 until 31 March 2023.