Renfrewshire Council

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Renfrewshire Council’s director of finance and resources, Alan Russell, has been appointed as the council’s new chief executive and will take up post at the end of November. A national recruitment process began after current chief executive Sandra Black announced her retirement in A

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A financial plan setting out how more than 1,000 new affordable homes will be built in Renfrewshire by 2027 has been given the go-ahead by councillors. Members of Renfrewshire Council’s Communities Housing and Planning Board this week approved the area’s latest Strategic Housing Investme

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Renfrewshire Council chief executive Sandra Black has announced her retirement. Sandra Black has worked in public service for almost 40 years and has been responsible for leading the council's emergency response to the COVID-19 pandemic. She has also played a key role in the establishment

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Plans to build a major housing development at the University of the West of Scotland’s (UWS) Thornly Park campus in Paisley have been rejected by Renfrewshire Council. UWS, in partnership with Miller Homes, applied for permission to knock down the sports pitches, student accommodation, and Rob

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Renfrewshire councillors have given the go-ahead for residents to be asked their views on an ambitious and far-reaching ten-year £100 million transformation of council housing. Renfrewshire Council last year agreed to invest the sum in a housing-led regeneration and renewal programme to delive

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Despite ongoing national restrictions, Link Group has continued to work safely with its construction partners to build affordable homes for the people and families who need them most. In addition to providing over 8,000 homes and services to people and families across Scotland, the affordable housin

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Construction work on new amenity housing in the centre of Paisley is now under way. The sixteen amenity flats will be self-contained accommodation designed to meet the requirements of older people with four of the flats available to wheelchair users. All of the houses will have lift access, low leve

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Councillors will this week be asked to approve plans for at least £100 million of additional investment over the next ten years in council housing across Renfrewshire as part of a strategy for the region's economic and social recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

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A £4.5 million retrofit programme to reduce carbon emissions and boost the energy efficiency of 75 terraced homes in Paisley has been cancelled by Renfrewshire Council. The work by the council’s housing investment team was designed to slash heating bills at the 1960s-built crosswall cons

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