Places For People

Maureen Crawford A Midlothian resident has been recognised at a national awards ceremony for her exceptional sense of community and kindness towards her neighbours.

A new £19 million housing development in Wester Hailes has been shortlisted in the ‘Excellence in Development for Affordable Housing’ category at this year’s Chartered Institute of Housing (CIH) Excellence Awards. The Places for People Scotland development constructed by Lovell comprises of 1

Richard Jennings The full programme is now available for the University of Stirling’s fourth lecture in its Innovation and Excellence series marking the University's fiftieth year: Innovation in Housing – a force for wider benefits?

As part of its 50th anniversary celebrations the University of Stirling is hosting an open event to stimulate debate on the future of housing and how our housing system can underpin wider economic and social developments. Innovation in Housing: a force for wider benefits?

Up to 3,000 new homes will be created through a pioneering partnership model with Aberdeen City Council Places for People's diversification strategy has enabled the business to report another set of strong results helping it to increase investment in both new housebuilding and improving and maintain

Places for People has submitted plans to the City of Edinburgh Council to build 89 new homes by Granton Waterfront. The development on Waterfront Avenue forms the third phase of a larger scheme of around 600 homes.

Regional managing director Simon Phillips (right) and business development manager Euan McDermott Esh Border Construction has announced a raft of new multi-million pound framework partnerships within Scotland’s social housing sector.

Visualisation of the site from Gairsay Drive Work to create almost 370 flats at a former Aberdeen school could start as early as June, it has been revealed.

Residents have begun moving in to a new town in the Highlands which will eventually grow into a community of 12,000 people. Being built on farmland near Inverness, developers claim Tornagrain is the first new town to be built in Scotland for more than 50 years.

The offical opening of new Loretto homes in Eriboll Crescent Development projects by Loretto Housing Association, West Lothian Council, Link Group and Places for People have been shortlisted for a home building industry award by Homes for Scotland.

A development currently being delivered in the Middlefield area of the city by Shaping Aberdeen Housing LLP A five-year business plan for the Shaping Aberdeen Housing LLP has been supported by councillors, paving the way for the delivery of up to 3,000 homes in the city.

David Cowans, Places for People’s group chief executive Places for People (PfP) has become the first housing association to establish a distinct fund management capability with the launch of its new PfP Capital business.

Ambitious plans to help regenerate Clackmannan took a step forward last week when new actions to deliver new affordable housing, community enterprise facilities, streetscape improvements and the relocation of a local business to new premises were agreed by the local authority. Funding of over £5 mi

(from left) Lynne Morris, Places for People; Martin Gray, Osprey Housing; Richard Fawcus, Stewart Milne Homes; Edward Thomas and Bellann Wylie, both Aberdeen City Council A partnership approach between a local housing association, a housebuilder and a national property company is making a significan

David Cowans, Places for People’s group chief executive Places for People Group has completed its acquisition of housing provider Derwent Living in a merger that is said to make the group one of the UK’s largest property management businesses.