Fife Council

A Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan to help meet the national ambition to "end homelessness together" has been launched in Fife. A five-year fund of £50 million was announced by the Scottish Government last year to tackle the issues associated with homelessness.

Fife Council has committed to significant investment in gypsy traveller sites across the Kingdom over the next year. Convenor of the community and housing services committee, Cllr Judy Hamilton, visited the site at Heatherywood, Kirkcaldy to see first-hand the results of the £840,000 improveme

Fife council tenants are set to be consulted on options to improve their lock-up service. Councillors discussed a range of options to improve the lock-up service for council tenants at a meeting of Fife Council's community and housing services committee this week.

Fife Council is seeking views on the future accommodation needs of university students and St Andrews' residents in the town. The issue of HMOs (houses in multiple occupation) has caused much debate in St Andrews over the years, particularly how best to ease pressure on the over-crowded housing mark

As Scotland plans for an ageing population, Kingdom Housing Association has become one of the first social landlords in the country to introduce dementia training courses for staff and the first organisation that operates across Fife to receive the Dementia Friendly Fife Award. Kingdom worked with A

(from left) Craig Walker, service manager (development plan), Douglas Speirs, archaeologist (development plan), Kevin Stewart MSP, minister for local government, housing and planning, and Pam Ewen, chief officer, Fife Council planning Fife Council’s planners were celebrating after the local author

Representatives of the UK and Scottish governments joined four local council leaders and business and academic chiefs in Perth yesterday to formally sign the £700 million Tay Cities Region Deal. Officially agreed at a ceremony at Perth & Kinross Council’s HQ this morning after months of negot

A group of Fife primary school children donned hard hats and hi-visibility vests to swap the classroom for the building site and learn about construction on one of the region’s new affordable housing projects. The children from the primary 1 class at Saline Primary School visited a £7.8 million a

Fife Council’s ambitious Affordable Housing Programme is making progress with the start of construction of new very sheltered accommodation in Glenrothes. Located on Napier Road at the site of the Napier House Care Home, all 31 flats will be brand new council housing and form part of a care villag

Kingdom Housing Association’s June McCormack (left) along with new tenant Ashleigh Letham and her children Kingdom Housing Association has welcomed tenants and their families to its Fraser Avenue open day to see firsthand progress being made with the Inverkeithing regeneration project.

More than 1,300 homes were built on sites of at least five homes in Fife during 2017/18, the region’s latest housing survey has revealed. The figure in the Fife Housing Survey is the same number of homes as in the previous year, and the joint highest total since the global economic crisis of 2008.

(from left) Lynne Dunn, Kingdom Works manager; Bill Banks, Kingdom chief executive; Jamie Hepburn MSP; Robin Presswood, Fife Council’s head of economy planning and employability; Freya Lees, Kingdom chair Fife Works, the pioneering employability project set up by Kingdom Housing Association, has c

A heat metering and billing framework for use by local authorities and housing associations that is designed to help grow the heat network market and ensure customer protection has been created by Fife Council. The framework gives local authorities and housing associations access to three suppliers

Fife Council has reassured its tenants that cladding on its high-rise buildings is safe after an investigation found that some buildings do not meet the recommendations of Scottish Government fire safety experts. A working group appointed by the government in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy in June