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North east-based Phil Anderson Financial Services has donated £1,000 to Aberdeen Cyrenians after it matched a donation made by Skipton Building Society.

Residents in New Luce, Wigtownshire, are the first in Scotland to benefit from a programme to provide 4G to areas with no mobile coverage from any operator.

The first phase of Oak Tree Housing Association’s ambitious plan to deliver 200 affordable homes across Greenock has been completed with the opening of Auchmead Road.

Home Group Scotland’s Springburn Way, a £5.6 million regeneration project in the inner-city district of Springburn, has been nominated for Affordable Housing Development of the Year in the Scottish Housing Awards.

A tenant participation group at Castlehill Housing Association has devised a pilot initiative to help residents at one of its sheltered housing schemes get online. Tenants attend a digital training session with CaRTO representative Colin Stewart

Lochfield Park Housing Association has hosted two successful fundraising events for this year's chosen charity MacMillan Cancer Support. Every year, the Association hosts a variety of events and donates the funds raised to a chosen charity.

Highlighting the energy strategy behind making Shawfair as sustainable as possible, James Palmer said the project can become an exemplar for others to follow. In 2005 Apple launched the iPod Nano, mobile phones were used for making calls, and Al Gore began working on his documentary, “An Incon

Housebuilder Avant Homes is set to build 252 new homes in Jackton following the approval of a £68.8 million development in the East Kilbride town.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has lodged detailed proposals for its plans to build more than 400 new homes at the western edge of Cowie. Plans for up to 433 new homes on land to the south of Bannockburn Road at Berryhills were granted approval on appeal in 2018 after Stirling Council voted against the

A better rate of pay elsewhere has been blamed for a housing maintenance backlog at Angus Council.

A self-build housing development in Glasgow is among the projects to be recognised as the best examples of planning across the UK. The Bantaskin Street Glasgow - Self Build Pilot, submitted by Glasgow City Council, is in the running for the Excellence in Planning to Deliver Homes - Small Schemes (up

Ypeople has extended its thanks to integrated business telephone systems provider Yellowcom which has once again been championing the homelessness charity and fundraising on its behalf.

Kevin Scarlett, the chief executive of the River Clyde Homes Group, is to leave his post after seven years at the helm. Mr Scarlett is moving on in April to take up a new senior strategic housing role in England.

North View Housing Association has received a £2 million Scottish charitable bond from Allia C&C for the development of more affordable homes in Glasgow. The loan will support the Association’s plan to build 25 new affordable homes on the site of the former Windlaw Lodge nursing

A masterplan for the delivery of 600 homes has been lodged by the City of Edinburgh Council as the community-led development at Meadowbank makes progress. New visualisation of the Meadowbank development (Image credit: Collective Architecture)