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Despite the challenges of a year in lockdown, Rutherglen and Cambuslang Housing Association has successfully completed the development of 18 new homes on the site of an old filling station on Hamilton Road, Halfway in Cambuslang.

Places for People group chief executive David Cowans is to retire next year after 24 years as CEO. Mr Cowans will continue to lead the group and support a planned transition process until his retirement on March 31, 2022.

A team with personal experience of the homelessness system are gathering information during April and May from every corner of Scotland to help understand what is needed to end homelessness. All In For Change is a programme led by a ‘Change Team’ who each have personal experience of home

Councillors have rejected plans to build a housing complex for young people in Livingston due to a number of “significant errors” contained within the planning application and a perceived lack of community consultation.

Angus Housing Association has secured a donation of £1,000 from Scotmid to assist in purchasing equipment such as laptops, iPads, headsets and printers for its ‘Tenant Portals’. The portals, which will be situated in unused office space in Dundee and Arbroath, will allow the Associ

West Lothian Council has approved plans to build 81 flats and houses in the village of Winchburgh.

All In For Change bridges the gap between homelessness policy, planning and action on the ground. It includes people from across Scotland committed to ending homelessness who each bring unique knowledge to the table, either from working in the housing, social care or homelessness sectors or through

Coronavirus safety restrictions have badly hit turnaround times for letting empty homes to new tenants in West Lothian. Vacant council homes were one of the regular complaints received by West Lothian councillors well before the COVID-19 lockdowns materialised last March.

An appeal to overturn the rejection of a plan for serviced apartments at a B-listed Glasgow city centre townhouse has been unsuccessful. In February, Lets Direct Ltd submitted an appeal to Glasgow City Council after planners refused plans which involved empty offices at 266 St Vincent Street next to

Eighty per cent of residents are satisfied with services delivered by the City of Edinburgh Council since lockdown began in March 2020, according to a large-scale city survey.

Kingdom Housing Association has completed conversion work on Hunter House in Kirkcaldy, a Category B listed building which the Association purchased in 2020.

Caledonia Housing Association welcomed the final phase of tenants to their new homes on Monday in a development just off Montrose Road in Arbroath. The development is a part of Stewart Milne’s Monarch’s Rise development and has created 61 new affordable homes; 47 for affordable rent and

Forth Housing Association has completed the development of 35 properties for affordable rent in Cultenhove, St Ninians. Development co-ordinator Niall Patterson has spoken of the difficulties faced during the project including the site being a complex one to develop as it fronted on four street

As a mark of respect to HRH Prince Phillip, The Duke of Edinburgh, Dalmuir Park Housing Association will light up its HMS Ramillies Sculpture in blue from this evening.

Camerons Strachan Yuill Architects (CSY Architects) has moved into employee ownership following a loan from Triodos Bank UK and support from Co-operative Development Scotland and employee ownership specialists Co-ownership Solutions.