Opinion

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Jane Wood, chief executive of Homes for Scotland, discusses the alarming decline of small and medium-sized home builders in Scotland and its impact on the housing crisis, emphasising the need for urgent policy reforms to support the sector. Last week, Homes for Scotland (HFS) published a report reve

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Jon Turner, Link Group chief executive officer, discusses the importance of customer engagement. How do we make sure we are delivering the services our tenants and service users need, when they need it, to the right quality, every time? And could this be the ‘Holy Grail’? Possibly not, b

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Anna Gardiner MRICS, policy adviser (rural property) at Scottish Land & Estates, picks up on some recent data from Argentina on the huge drop in rent prices since the rent cap was scrapped there. Buenos Aires and Brechin. Two locations you wouldn’t normally expect to be able to draw c

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Thomas & Adamson partner Hamish Paterson provides his take on new legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding. In mid-May, the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass new legislation that will speed up the removal of potent

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Kirsty Morrison, group chief executive of Albyn Housing Society, discusses the challenges facing social housing providers in Scotland, including funding cuts, rising costs, and increased demand, while highlighting innovative solutions and the need for further societal discussion. Providing everyone

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Callum Chomczuk, national director at CIH Scotland, on what the general election means for housing in Scotland. The declaration of a housing emergency by the Scottish Parliament and seven local authorities, alongside the introduction of a Housing Bill has dominated discussions of housing policy in S

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Laura Nacyte, development and engagement worker at Women’s Support Project, shares information about a national project focused on the needs of women who sell or exchange sex - and details how the housing sector can get involved. At CSE Aware – a national awareness raising and

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Julie Moulsdale from Perceptive Communicators shares how the homebuilding industry can use proactive community engagement to unlock the planning system. We are in the grip of a nationwide housing crisis, yet recent figures reveal that the timescale for average planning application is four times long

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The full impact of the Cladding Remediation Bill, which was recently passed in the Scottish Parliament, is still to be felt within the construction sector, write Shona Frame and Ryan McCuaig. The 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives, put a sharp focus on the safety of cladding systems

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