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Ardenglen Housing Association’s hard working ‘Community Committee’ were praised this week after another two massively-successful Autumn events brimming with family fun. First they hosted an Autumn Fun Day timed to offer something for all the family during the October week school holiday.

The City of Edinburgh Council is to request that the Scottish Government conducts a review into the effectiveness of a rent pressure zone (RPZ) after a report found that the policy is not fit for purpose. Designed to cap any future increase in rent in a local authority area, RPZs became available as

Albyn Housing Society has started work on its first ever affordable housing scheme in Ardgay, Sutherland, as part of its ambitious plan to build 750 affordable homes in the Highlands by 2020. Compass Building and Construction has been appointed as lead contractor at the Drovers Square development, a

Experts in urban planning and housing policy will today give evidence to a House of Lords committee as it continues its inquiry intergenerational fairness. The House of Lords Committee on Intergenerational Fairness will hold two evidence sessions hearing from the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI)

(from left) Gary Dalziel FCIH, Elderpark Housing Association Ltd (who presented the award), Graeme Hamilton, Rhona Matthew, Scott McCover, Gayle Anderson, Jim Banks, Emily Forbes, Robin Nairn, Kirsty Campbell, Jenny Soley, Arlene Stuart (awards host) Highland-based registered social landlord Albyn H

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is marking the one year anniversary of its Homeless Navigator Project. The project provides advice and support to people sleeping rough in and around Edinburgh city as part of the charity’s work towards bringing an end to homelessness. In just twelve months, the proj

Clive Feeney (director of SPA), Julie Williams (community benefit officer at Wheatley Group), Mark Beaumont (Cyclist and SPA Awards host) More than 200 representatives from the Scottish public sector gathered to celebrate procurement excellence within the housing sector at the first ever Scottish Pr

MPs have called on the UK Government to urgently reassess its benefit sanctions regime after a new report found that the evidence that the policy is achieving its aims is at best mixed, and at worst showing a policy that appears “arbitrarily punitive”. A Benefit Sanctions report published by the

The third quarter of 2018 has seen four new clients sign up to HUB Manager to oversee their asset management and SHQS/EESSH compliance process which takes the total number of assets under management to 33,000 and means that over 10% of all Registered Social Landlords in Scotland are now using HUB. �

Sanctuary's Andrea Campbell and Lindsay Forrest with the CIH Scotland Excellence award Sanctuary’s £60 million transformation of Glasgow’s Anderston has been formally recognised with CIH Scotland’s Excellence In Regeneration award.

The Highland Council has published updated guidance on financial contributions required from new developments towards new infrastructure and services. The Developer Contributions Supplementary Guidance now forms part of the council’s development plan which is used to determine planning application

Price protection for 11 million customers on poor value default tariffs will come into force on 1 January 2019, Ofgem has confirmed. Ofgem has set the final level of the price cap, following the regulator’s statutory consultation published on September 6, at £1137 per year for a typical dual fuel

LAR chief executive Ann Leslie LAR Housing Trust is set to complete another development in Aberdeen, its seventh in the area.

Councillors have deferred a decision on plans to build 121 homes in an Aberdeenshire village amid concerns over local infrastructure. Barratt North Scotland had proposed the development of 109 houses and 12 flats on a site near Park Place in Newtonhill.

Around 100 new council homes are to be built in the Tannahill area of Ferguslie Park after plans were confirmed for a £14 million new build development. Construction of the new homes is expected to start in 2020, with funding from Renfrewshire Council and the Scottish Government.