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What is the role of land in enabling, or preventing, the development of new homes in rural Scotland? What opportunities should we be making more of? And what changes need to be made to adequately satisfy housing need in rural communities, both for those who currently live there, and to allow for sus

Residents in Argyll and Bute are being asked to say what matters most to them when it comes to housing in Argyll and Bute. Argyll and Bute Council and its partners are preparing a new Local Housing Strategy which will set out priorities for action in the next five years (2021-26).

Turning Point Scotland's Perth and Kinross Floating Housing Support service has become one of the first non-addiction services in the UK authorised to provide drugs which could prevent opioid overdoses. The service can now offer training to people who are at risk of witnessing an overdose and supply

Six sites have been brought to market within the Loch Lomond and Trossachs National Park with the potential to create 29 new homes.

RDK Construction and RobertRyan Homes Ltd are nearing completion of their first phase of designed homes at the Walled Garden, Southannan Estate in Fairlie, North Ayrshire. 

Energy provider People’s Energy is expanding to create an initial 100 new jobs over the next few months after it joined South of Scotland Enterprise as new tenants of Ettrick Riverside Office Space in Selkirk.

Ofgem has today published three decisions relating to the price protection provided to default tariff and prepayment customers following its statutory consultations published in May. Firstly, Ofgem has decided to roll the prepayment meter cap into the default tariff price cap. This price protec

Virgin Money, the owner of Clydesdale Bank, has launched a new £400,000 Community Anchors’ Fund, in partnership with the HFD Charitable Foundation to help community groups in Glasgow. The fund has awarded the first ten of up to 30 grants to support community groups whose activities have

Andrew Noble is to retire from his position as chief executive of Melville Housing Association, following a quarter of a century’s stellar service to the social housing sector. Mr Noble will step down from the role that he’s held since 2005, later this year.

Elderpark Housing has officially restarted work on the £15 million construction of 82 homes near Govan Cross after several months at standstill due to the coronavirus pandemic. The Association is working closely with its developers - construction firm CCG - to ensure work progresses while ensu

Cassiltoun Housing Association has sustained its IIP Platinum Award accreditation for another three years following a review against the award criteria. In Scotland, 45 organisations hold the IIP Platinum Award, of which eight are housing associations. Cassiltoun was first awarded the IIP

Tenant satisfaction levels at West Whitlawburn Housing Co-operative (WWHC) have soared to record highs, conclusive results from a recently conducted survey have revealed.

Wheatley Group is on the lookout for 12 of Scotland’s brightest and best university leavers to join its graduate training programme. The group has launched its 2020 graduate recruitment drive with 10 housing and two business trainee places available.

A pioneering Renfrewshire enterprise is back in business after receiving a boost to combat the effects of coronavirus, thanks to emergency COVID-19 funding distributed by Linstone Housing.  Scotland’s Bravest Manufacturing Company, based at the Erskine Veterans Village Estate, provides em

A couple have moved to a new home in Edinburgh after carrying out an innovative property viewing over WhatsApp from South Africa, thanks to staff at housing provider Bield.