Glasgow City Council

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(from left) GHA chair, Bernadette Hewitt, Christopher Conn, apprentice joiner at City Building, City Building managing director, Graham Paterson, Nicole Woodburn, apprentice joiner at City Building, and Morag Johnston, executive director of financial services for Glasgow City Council A new £3.7 bil

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A convicted child sex offender who tried to apply for a landlord's permit from behind bars is among four men to be banned from renting homes by Glasgow City Council. Muhammed Anwar had been convicted and jailed for six years for three offences in relation to child sexual abuse, having previously bee

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(from left) Thenue’s chief executive Charles Turner; Kevin Stewart MSP, Councilor George Redmond, convenor of development and regeneration services at Glasgow City Council and Owen Stewart, chair of Thenue Housing A multi-million housing boost for Bridgeton in Glasgow’s East End was unveiled by

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Ian Smith and Councillor McAveety at Dunira Street, Tollcross Tollcross Housing Association has celebrated the start of work on a new £8.5 million project that will provide 47 new high quality affordable flats and houses for rent as well as a new office.

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Councillor Frank McAveety with the homelessness easement card and IWS resources Glasgow City Council’s Poverty Leadership Panel (PLP) has launched a pocket sized information card to help homeless jobseekers.

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Glasgow City Council has approved a long term housing plan for Govanhill that has earmarked £6.4 million to allow housing associations to build 350 new homes in the area. The funding for the new homes will be channelled through housing associations over the next four years with eight sites in the a

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South Glasgow is set to benefit from 82 new affordable homes for social rent, helped by £5 million support from an innovative Scottish Government scheme. The new homes – a mix of houses and flats – will be built by Elderpark Housing Association.

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Parkhead Housing Association (PHA) has cut ground on a new development which will deliver 60 new high quality affordable homes at the site of the old Quarrybrae School. The ceremony was performed by leader of Glasgow City Council Frank McAveety in front of an audience of invited guests last week.

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Kevin Stewart shown a refurbished flat in Govanhill as part of the buy and repair scheme last year Up to 350 homes in the Govanhill area of Glasgow are to be upgraded and made available for social renting thanks to a funding package that could total over £34 million.

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South Lanarkshire Council has unveiled plans to double its house building programme to 1,000 new homes as it joined two other local authorities in Scotland to yesterday announce a voluntarily freeze of the basic rate of Council Tax. Inverclyde and Renfrewshire councils also confirmed that they would

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A joint economic action plan between eight councils is aiming to deliver 110,000 new homes around the Glasgow City Region. The move, the first of its kind in Scotland, will see the authorities pursue a common economic strategy between now and the year 2035.

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A programme to address issues of energy efficiency and fuel poverty in Glasgow over the next five years has been agreed by the local authority. The action plan for Glasgow City Council’s 2017-22 Affordable Warmth Programme has been informed by four key policy themes which are improving Glasgow's h

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