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East Lothian Housing Association (ELHA) has reached two major targets a year ahead of schedule. Four years ago, the Association set five-year targets of 80% of tenants using their digital My Home accounts and 80% of tenants going paper-free.

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has joined forces with mental health charity Penumbra on a new pilot project aimed at supporting the mental health and wellbeing of its tenants.

Staff from Melville Housing Association have gone the extra mile to raise £900 for local Midlothian charity St David’s Bradbury Day Centre to help pay for day trips and activities. (from left) Mary Monteith of Melville Housing, Karen Murdoch from St David’s Bradbury Day Centre

Scottish Greens candidate for Glasgow Kelvin Patrick Harvie visited a development site in Partick yesterday to discuss the party’s plans to tackle the "massive unmet need" for social and affordable housing in Glasgow and prevent housing inequality worsening in the area and across Sco

Local residents in North Ayrshire will get the chance to have their say on plans for new housing on part of the former Garnock Academy site. North Ayrshire Council is holding an online consultation on the plans for 50 properties which include a mix of general needs houses, homes suitable for wheelch

Glasgow-based construction firm City Building has added another prestigious award to its accolades after receiving its third Queen’s Award for Enterprise. City Building took home the Promoting Opportunity Award, a category recognising businesses and organisations delivering social pr

Places for People's Engine Yard development in Edinburgh has been shortlisted at this year’s Inside Housing Awards 2021.

Heat networks have not been widely adopted in the UK due to a lack of regulation and resulting lack of consumer confidence. They also require significant upfront capital costs. As Scotland is the first nation within the UK to bring out legislation in this area, Sarah-Jane McArthur and Sara

Regeneration business Peel L&P has submitted an initial planning application into its proposed delivery of 1,100 homes, a 200-bedroom hotel plus a 2,500 sqm for a mix of leisure venues at Glasgow's Yorkhill Quay. The land, located on the Northern banks of the River Clyde in the West End of Glasg

More than three quarters (86%) of housing providers thought that the social housing sector lags behind other industries in terms of digital engagement according to a report published by Scotland’s Housing Network. The network carried out research to provide insight into the current perceptions

A public consultation will be conducted into plans for 61 new homes in Bathgate. Persimmon Homes East Scotland has lodged a Proposal of Application Notice to West Lothian Council regarding its housing, commercial and retail plan for land at Simpson Avenue / Leyland Road in Wester Inch.

Osprey Housing Group chief executive Glenn Adcook is set to retire after nearly 50 years working in the housing sector. Glenn, who joined the north east social landlord in 2011, becoming CEO in 2017, will step down by the end of the year.

Kingdom Housing Association (KHA) has unveiled an ambitious development programme that will see it aim to deliver an estimated 2,003 affordable new homes over the next five years.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has removed Thistle Housing Association from the register of social landlords following the directed transfer of its homes to Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association.

CIH Scotland national director Callum Chomczuk reflects on what is missing from Housing to 2040. Last month saw the publication of Housing to 2040, a 20-year strategy full of welcome ambition about the future of our sector and the role of housing in improving society at large.