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Graeme Brown Housing in homelessness charity Shelter Scotland has bemoaned new statistics which revealed that one million people in Scotland, more than a fifth of them children, are living in relative poverty after housing costs.

Dr Sally Reynolds Scottish Land Commissioner, Dr Sally Reynolds, looks at scale and concentration of land ownership in Scotland.

(from left) Mike Scott, vice chair Osprey Housing Group; Glenn Adcook, CEO Osprey Housing Group; Les Allan, chair Osprey Housing Moray; Lynn Cunningham, Living Wage Scotland Osprey Housing Group has been accredited as a Living Wage employer after successfully negotiating with its affected suppliers

Helen Murdoch After the launch of an initiative which aims to give a new voice for Scotland’s ethnic minority older people, Hanover Scotland chief executive, Helen Murdoch, give her views on the Scottish Ethnic Minority Older People Forum.

Loretto Housing has reassured tenants there will be no delays to the delivery of new homes after a fire at a building site this week. A fire in a small section of the site at Wallacewell Quadrant, Balornock, on Monday evening destroyed four cottage flats which were under construction.

Paul Jukes North Lanarkshire Council chief executive, Paul Jukes, has announced his intention to retire later this year after 31 years in local government.

(from left) Fraser Nicol (Scott-Moncrieff), William Mcpherson (Re-Tek), Ewain Black (Social Bite) Social Bite’s Digital Inclusion Project has just received a huge boost in the form of 25 laptops and 4PCs.

The average price of a property in Scotland in January 2018 was £148,512 – an increase of 7.3% on January in the previous year and an increase of 1.4% when compared to the previous month. The figures from the Registers of Scotland’s latest monthly UK House Price Index (UK HPI) shows that compar

Plans have been to develop around 59 new homes at the site of a former Fife maternity hospital. Proposals by AEL Developments Limited and NHS Fife for Kirkcaldy’s Forth Park Hospital are to be showcased to the public at an exhibition today ahead of a formal planning application being lodged later

GVA has announced the sale of a residential development site in the heart of Glasgow’s west end on behalf of a private client to Queensberry Properties Ltd. The site has a detailed planning consent for 45 apartments and four townhouses and is located on Otago Lane, benefitting from an excellent ou

(from left) Dave Stanbrook (CALA - senior sales manager), Rebecca Perry (CALA - group CSR manager), Lewis Hailstone (CALA - apprentice site manager), Maria Aspinal (CALA - sales consultant) Local charities, organisations and projects across Midlothian and East Lothian looking for a share of a combin

Over 17,200 wheelchair users in Scotland do not have a suitable home and this unmet need is set to increase by 80% by 2024, according to new research. A major new report published by Horizon Housing Association and North Star Consulting and Research estimates that there are 87,340 wheelchair users i

(from left) Jamie McLean (general manager at Mactaggart & Mickel Contracts), Margaret Vass (chair of Rural Stirling Housing Association), Stirling Councillor Robert Davies, Margaret Harrison (chair of Killearn Community Council) and Donna Birrell (CEO of Rural Stirling Housing Association) New a

A new community organisation has been launched to offer cheaper electricity to those most in need after a survey found that more than a third of Scots (36%) admit to living in fuel poverty. Research from community-owned renewable energy assets manager Mongoose Energy and not-for-profit energy suppli

Scotland’s sparsely populated areas are at risk of losing more than a quarter of their population by 2046 if current demographic trends are left unchanged, according to new research. A study commissioned by the Scottish Government and conducted by the James Hutton Institute investigated the demogr