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Cairn Housing Association has been awarded with a four star Recognised for Excellence Award at the 2018 Scottish Awards for Business Excellence. At an event attended by over 250 professionals from across the public, private and third sectors, Cairn walked away with an award which marks the latest mi

The Positive Goals employability programme run by Morton in the Community and backed by River Clyde Homes is returning for a second year. The 2017 programme was a great success with 61% of participants that completed the six week project gaining work or a place in full time education, and of those,

Tenants at a retirement housing development in the Scottish Borders have had their kitchens given a new lease of life. Bield’s Turnbull Court in Duns has seen its tenants’ kitchens undergo a major revamp, turning dated designs into modern living spaces.

Cllr Mark Salmond As the first Scottish local authority to install sprinkler systems as standard in its new build housing, Angus Council welcomes the move by Scottish Government to make sprinkler systems compulsory in new social housing.

A developer’s plans to deliver almost 300 flats and a public promenade at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Quarry have been rejected by councillors.

Scott Kirkpatrick, Richard Murdoch and Moray Glennie from Kingdom with the Lintel Cup A team of golfers from Kingdom Housing Association are the Lintel Trust champions for 2018 after winning the Trust‘s 24th annual golf tournament.

Lisa Peebles Tenant voice and landlord self-assurance were the focus of the Regulator’s opening session at the Tenant Information Service (TIS) national conference in Cumbernauld earlier this month.

Thousands more long-term, privately-owned empty homes across Scotland are in the sights of an expanded team which aims to use all its powers to bring them back into use. A key aim of the Scottish Empty Homes Partnership (SEHP) – which has recently had its funding doubled by the Scottish Government

Planning consent for the £8.9 million second phase of Kingdom Housing Association's regeneration of Fraser Avenue in Inverkeithing has been approved allowing the construction of 61 new homes. Thirty per cent of the new houses will be designed and built to meet suit the particular needs of tenants w

Terrie Alafat A major new report is calling on the government to back social housing as polling reveals strong public support.

Kirsty Glennan Kirsty Glennan, senior solicitor at Burness Paull, writes on impending changes to Scottish land law.

Experiences of people who have used local authorities’ homelessness services have been explored in new research from the Scottish Housing Regulator. The findings, which form part of the feedback from the Regulator’s National Panel of tenants and service users, give an insight into makes a differ

Scotland is in the spotlight today as nearly 250 people gather at the Albert Halls in Stirling for the Housing First Scotland conference. To be opened by Kevin Stewart MSP, minister for local government and housing, the day will hear how Scotland has now placed Housing First firmly at the heart of a

(from left) Barrhead’s director of asset management, James Ward, along with multi trade operative, Brian Miller, and contracts manager Gareth Thomson from Turners Barrhead Housing Association and Turner Property Services have entered into a new contract which will see Turners provide responsive re

Residents were evacuated from a tower block in Edinburgh last night after a fire broke out in a stairwell. The blaze was reported around 10pm on Monday in Citadel Court on Admiralty Street in Leith.