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AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd has been granted planning permission by Glasgow City Council to build 140 new homes for social rent in Pollokshields. The development will see 90 houses and 50 flats, including 10 cottage flats, built on a brownfield site on Maxwell Road formerly belonging to SGN Ltd, the loc

Kevin Scarlett Eighteen housing associations in Scotland - including the Haymarket Group of associations - have agreed to take part in a sector scorecard pilot to benchmark a range of business health and efficiency measures.

Home Group has appointed 14 architects to a £27 million framework to support plans to build 10,000 new homes of all tenures during the next five years. The appointments will see the affordable housing developer work with some of the most highly renowned and decorated architecture practices in the U

(from left) Gregory Colgan head of customer services and IT, Dundee City Council; Craig Mason, senior manager council advice services, Dundee City Council; Dr Drew Walker, director of public health, NHS Tayside; Doug Cross, non executive member Board of NHS Tayside; Aileen Tait, health improvement s

AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd has submitted a detailed planning application to Glasgow City Council for a £5 million development of 40 homes for social rental at Springburn Way in Springburn. The homes are being built for Home Scotland, part of Home Group, one of the UK’s largest providers of social ho

Developers have unveiled plans to build 140 affordable flats and houses at the former Maxwell Road gasworks in East Pollokshields. Plans submitted by AS Homes on behalf of Home Group will see 96 townhouses and 44 flats as well as supporting amenity space and recreational areas developed on 8.3 acres

Plans for 32 affordable homes have been submitted to Dundee City Council on behalf of Home Group. Developer Cruden Homes hopes to build the properties on the site of the former Longhaugh Neighbourhood Centre at Pitkerro Road.

Matt Forrest Home Group has announced the appointment of Matt Forrest in a new role of executive director for business development.

Affordable housing provider Home Group has devised a way to help its customers overcome one of the biggest barriers to owning a place of their own – saving for a deposit while paying rent. The organisation has committed to match, pound for pound, the UK government cash bonus to savers using a Help

Scottish social landlords are modernising services and making use of new technology to deliver real, quantifiable savings and improved productivity, according to HouseMark Scotland’s Value for Money Club. The club’s second meeting of the year took place on May 19 in Glasgow.

(from left) Site manager Bill Anderson, David Zwirlein and John Alexander. Photo Credit: Evening Telegraph Funds available for new build council and housing association houses in Dundee are set to go up by over £4 million in the next financial year, the city council has confirmed.

Justine Tomlinson Tenants of supported accommodation will not be subject to the Local Housing Allowance (LHA) cap on housing benefit until April 2017 after the UK government introduced a year-long exception.

Housing association representatives with housing leader Councillor Cammy Day, health, social care and housing convener, Councillor Ricky Henderson, the City of Edinburgh Council chief executive Andrew Kerr, council leader Councillor Andrew Burns and deputy leader Councillor Sandy Howat Edinburgh is

Mark Henderson One of the UK’s largest affordable housing providers is set to place its customers and clients at the heart of celebrations marking its 80th anniversary.

One of the UK’s largest landlords has conducted research which it claims will allow housing providers to build homes for ‘Generation Rent’ without any government grant. Hosting at the housing fringe at the Conservative party conference in Manchester yesterday, Home Group launched its ‘Flexib