Glasgow City Council

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to investigate Glasgow City Council’s service for people who are homeless after finding that a “significant number of people” are still failing to receive temporary and emergency accommodation when required.

A strategy to bring between 200-250 empty homes back into use annually over three years in Glasgow has been approved by councillors.

Glasgow City Council has approved a new document which shows the way to doubling the city centre’s population to 40,000 over the next 15 years.

Partick Housing Association has applied to convert a former community facility into flats. Under the plans, Merkin House in Purdon Street would be transformed into 14 one and two-bedroom apartments.

Glasgow City Council should be “bold” and do more to aid the plight of the asylum seekers facing lock-change evictions by Serco, according to Govan Law Centre solicitor advocate Mike Dailly. Mr Dailly brought the case against the Home Office contractor and the Home Secretary as well

A proposed partnership between Glasgow City Council and Govan Housing Association will aim to tackle the condition of pre-1919 housing in the Ibrox and Cessnock areas of the city. Glasgow has 76,000 pre-1919 homes - around 23% of the city's housing stock - and 70,000 of these are tenement flats

Demolition work has begun on a tenement building in Glasgow's Pollokshields area after it partially collapsed in a fire. The fire on Albert Street was believed to have started in Strawberry & Spice Garden grocery below the flats around 11.30pm on Sunday.

Shettleston Housing Association’s church conversion and Passivhaus development has been shortlisted in two categories in the national Inside Housing Awards. Old Carntyne Church, in the east end of Glasgow, was transformed from a semi-derelict building into one of Scotland’s most energy-e

Between 200-250 empty homes back into use annually over three years if Glasgow councillors approve the next stages of a new strategy.

A draft strategy which proposes how Glasgow’s city centre population will double in size to 40,000 over the next 15 years is to be open for public consultation.

Charities in Glasgow are urging Glasgow City Council to open its winter shelter early after a cold snap has caused temperatures to fall below freezing.

The restoration of one of the last standing grade A listed tenements in the Gorbals will be celebrated at an event later this month hosted by Southside Housing Association (SHA). Glasgow’s 166 Gorbals Street (The Former British Linen Bank) building was built in 1900 and designed by architect J

Property developer Big Top Productions intends to demolish a former pub in Glasgow city centre which was traditionally popular with Rangers fans to build new apartments. The developer intends to demolish the building on the Ropework Lane site, which previously traded as Anne Millers, in order t

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) has celebrated the completion of its 3000th home. Bernadette Hewitt, chair of GHA and councillor Susan Aitken, leader of Glasgow City Council, join residents, staff and partners to celebrate GHA completing its 3,000th home at a new- build develop

Partners involved in exploring the feasibility of citizens basic income (CBI) pilots in Scotland have published an interim report into their findings. Fife, North Ayrshire, City of Edinburgh and Glasgow City councils are working together with NHS Health Scotland and the Improvement Service to explor