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(back row from left) Helen Renton, Isabella Crawford and Doreen Allen. Catherine Reid (middle). (front from left) Muriel Poingdestre and John Young Housing and care provider Bield has scored with residents after offering them season tickets to their favourite football games.

Claymore Homes has unveiled plans to build hundreds of homes across three sites in Aberdeenshire. The Peterhead firm has tabled a proposal for a second phase of 31 properties at its Merryhillock housing scheme, to the west of Fraserburgh.

The Scottish Government has approved plans for a residential development with an Edinburgh conservation area following an appeal. Zone Architects was granted planning permission for the construction of five terraced houses in the Trinity conservation area in the north of the city.

Christine Macleod The Scottish Housing Regulator has published a major new report highlighting the importance of providing continued value for money to around 118,000 people who use the factoring services of social landlords across Scotland.

Mary Taylor Organisations from across the housing spectrum have challenged the incumbent Scottish Government to realise their pre-election housing pledges and tackle the severe lack of homes in Scotland.

Norfolk Court The high rise flats at Norfolk Court in Laurieston were demolished yesterday to make way for a development of 201 homes by New Gorbals Housing Association.

Plans for a new community at Bertha Park Two separate developments which would provide a combined total up to 4500 homes near Perth are set to be considered by council planners on Wednesday.

Multi-million pound regeneration plans to transform an old Edinburgh brewery site into a thriving canal side community will go on show at an upcoming information event. The EDI Group Ltd is inviting residents to an information event on Tuesday 10 May, from 3pm to 8pm, at Akva, 129 Fountainbridge, to

Melville Housing Association has recorded its highest ever satisfaction levels, following a major survey of customers carried out at the start of the year. A record 19 out of 20 (94 per cent) customers of Melville, Midlothian’s largest registered social landlord, are happy with its performance, ac

Huge variations and changes to relevant national and UK wide affordable warmth policies has inevitably hindered progress to eradicate fuel poverty, according to a new report. The UK Fuel Poverty Monitor, produced annually by National Energy Action (NEA) and Energy Action Scotland (EAS), was publishe

A Broughty Ferry development containing the first homes to be delivered in the Dundee area under the Scottish Government’s National Housing Trust (NHT) initiative has made it through to the final stages of the prestigious Scottish Home Awards. The Sandy Loan development has been selected as a fina

A housing support service provided by Abertay Housing Association to tenants living within its seven sheltered housing complexes has been graded ‘very good to excellent’ by regulators. An inspection of the housing support service by the Care Inspectorate in March looked at three main areas and g

Jimmy Black Stairs. A complete nuisance if you have furniture to shift, babies to carry, shopping to bring home. That’s all of us at one time or another. And they’re a nuisance for disabled people too.

Over £158,000 has been injected into affordable housing in Glenrothes to bring long-term empty properties back into use as homes for people who have experienced homelessness or are in housing need. YMCA Glenrothes has received a grant from the Nationwide Foundation to go towards creating homes for

One of the UK’s largest mortgage lenders is to increase the upper age limit for its mortgages to 85. Following Friday’s announcement from the Halifax that it is to raise the age limit for people paying off mortgages to 80, the Nationwide has gone one further and upped its limit by five more year