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Kingdom Housing Association’s payroll team has won the coveted In-house Payroll Team of the Year award at the Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals Annual Excellence Awards.

Wellhouse Housing Association announced has announced that a window replacement programme worth almost £250,000 is now underway.

Plans for a Scottish community to buy the UK's most remote pub have moved closer to completion after the Scottish Land Fund (SLF) granted funding to support the scheme. The Old Forge Community Benefit Society (CBS) has been awarded £508,000 to support the purchase and redevelopment of the pub,

Ariane Burgess MSP, convener of the Scottish Parliament’s Local Government, Housing and Planning Committee Agenda, is urging Scottish residents to have their say on short-term lets legislation. Scotland has some of the most beautiful natural scenery in the world. It is no wonder that plac

Cruden Homes has submitted plans to build 52 new affordable flats in Livingston on the site of the former St Columba’s Church in Craigshill. If permission is granted, once completed, the one and two-bedroom homes will be given to a housing association.

Companies bidding to win Scottish Government contracts will have to pay the real Living Wage. This will ensure public sector contracts tackle in work poverty and promote fair work practices across the public, private and third sector where there is a risk of low pay.

The City of Edinburgh Council is reminding all city landlords and homeowners that every home in Scotland must comply with new fire safety legislation which will come into force early next year. By February 2022, all Scottish homes will need to be fitted with interlinked smoke and heat alarms that ta

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) has announced the successful completion of Sealladh Beinn Dail, South Dell, Isle of Lewis by Alex Murray Construction. Work began in August 2020 to bring about the completion of six high-quality homes for affordable social rent.

Tenants of Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) will benefit from cheaper energy bills thanks to a new ‘net zero’ renewable energy system.

Copperworks Housing Association is very sad to announce that the Association’s chairperson, Jim Laing, passed away on Sunday 3rd October 2021. Jim had been a member of the management committee since 2008 and had served many years as vice chair and the past 3 years as chair.

Cloch Housing Association, in partnership with Oak Tree Housing Association, is set to become the first company registered for a brand new Graduate Apprenticeship Framework run by Glasgow Caledonia University. The Graduate Apprenticeship will allow someone to work with Cloch's Shared Finance Service

Manor Estates Housing Association has announced the launch of its new customer portal in September 2021. The self-service portal allows our customers to: report a repair online, check their rent account, make a compliment or a complaint, as well as check and update the information that the associati

Scotland’s trade unions have joined forces with tenants' unions, anti-poverty groups, environmentalists and academics to launch a nationwide campaign to upgrade Scotland’s homes. Led by the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC), the ‘Our Climate, Our Homes’ campaign is callin

Rising numbers of households will find themselves owing money to energy providers as bills rise, according to the Energy Consumers Commission. The group is warning that policymakers need to give further consideration to fuel debt as it publishes a briefing on the issue.

Pubs, restaurants, woodlands and a church are to be brought into community ownership and use through new funding announced by the Scottish Government. More than £1 million of the Scottish Land Fund is being awarded to eight local community groups to help them take ownership of the land and bui