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The Citizens Advice network in Scotland unlocked over £132 million for people in the last year, new statistics published this week will show. In 2021/22 the network of 59 Citizens Advice Bureaux (CAB) and the Extra Help Unit in Glasgow helped over 174,500 clients in Scotland and dealt with alm

South Lanarkshire Council has been shortlisted in two categories for the CIH Scotland Housing Awards 2022. Housing and Technical Resources have been shortlisted in the Excellence in Regeneration and Sustainability category for the positive housing-led transformation of Whitlawburn.

Aberdeen Cyrenians has joined forces with oil and gas operator Ithaca Energy to kickstart this year’s Harvest food drive appeal. Every year staff and volunteers work with schools, companies and community groups to collect food, toiletries and other essentials to distribute to the most vulnerab

A corporate landlord that was refused an award of £950 for the repair of a door damaged by police officers executing a drugs search warrant has successfully had the decision re-made by the Upper Tribunal for Scotland. Umali Ltd had been awarded £4,338.60 for rent arrears and other damage

ICW Group has begun a UK-wide search to identify and reward excellence in the construction sector with the launch of the ICW Showcase Awards. Open to all registered ICW builders and developers, the awards recognise those projects which are managed and run to exceptional standards and demonstrate hig

Plans to deliver almost one thousand new affordable homes for Argyll and Bute over the next five years received full support at a council meeting today. The decision to approve the plan means there is potential to deliver 247 affordable homes this year and more than 750 units in the coming years.

Plans have now been submitted for a £100 million redevelopment of the former Scottish Widows headquarters in Edinburgh. Schroders Capital Real Estate hopes to open up the site to allow the development of a new residential quarter. A total of 194 flats – 35% of them affordable &

A former care home in Glasgow that has lain derelict since 2013 is the subject of an application to transform the property into 18 new apartments. Under the proposal by Regina Developments, the former Queen Mary Eventide Home in the Queens Park area would be converted into a car-free

The housing regulator in England has issued a regulatory notice to a housing association that was found to have overcharged residents nearly £3 million for rent over a period of ten years. The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) concluded this week that Beyond Housing Limited, which op

Lar Housing Trust has appointed housing infrastructure specialist Christa Reekie as a trustee. Ms Reekie has joins the housing charity after a long and distinguished career as a projects partner at Burness and then at Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), where she held the posts of commercial director and

The City of Edinburgh Council’s Regulatory Committee has agreed a new licensing scheme which includes additional controls for short-term lets for properties used as secondary letting within a tenement or shared main door property. The licencing scheme will allow the authority to restrict tenem

Moray Council has found and agreed on £3.6 million in recurring and one-off savings, in order to reduce pressure this year’s budget and better prepare for future years. Savings were made on removing existing vacancies within financial services, education, property services, internal

The social housing sector provides one of the most important protections from poverty in Scotland, attendees at the 47th AGM of the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) heard this week as its members reflected on the successes and challenges of 2021/22. Members also heard how, during t

Sanctuary Group and Swan Housing Association are in discussions to enter into a potential business combination. Any future agreement will be subject to detailed due diligence and the approval of boards of both organisations.

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) has responded to suggestions that the UK Government will not uprate benefits in line with inflation, saying the move would be 'absolutely catastrophic for the poorest and most vulnerable in the UK. Commenting on the suggestion by his junior Treasury Secretary Chris Phi