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Wheatley Group has joined Home Group in planning to develop new homes near the former Meat Market site in Glasgow's East End. Wheatley has lodged plans to build 254 units, made up of a mix of family housing and flats at the site which is bounded by Barrack Street, Gallowgate, Melbourne Street, Sydne

Cruden Homes has lodged a Detailed Planning Permission application with Renfrewshire Council for 99 new homes in Johnstone. 

A local community benefit society which delivers the Home Energy Efficiency Programme: Area Based Scheme (HEEPS:ABS) to the Outer Hebrides is celebrating a national award. (from left) Top - Norman Kerr, OBE director of Energy Action Scotland and Stewart Wilson, TIG CEO. Bottom - Donald Mackinnon, TI

Alastair Johnston, a senior solicitor at Harper Macleod, reviews an Upper Tribunal appeal case and highlights the lessons it provides regarding tenant evictions. The Upper Tribunal has recently published its decision in an appeal case which involved a novel approach by a landlord who was perhaps a l

The Scottish Housing Regulator has achieved Cyber Essentials Plus certification for its business intelligence system for the second year. 

The Scottish Parliament's social security committee continued its inquiry into benefit uptake last week with a visit to Wester Hailes Education Centre. The committee met with various organisations and individuals to try to uncover why a huge number of benefits remain unclaimed.

Long-serving housing officer Ron Archer, who has worked tirelessly to ensure tenants are given the support they need, has been presented with The Highland Council’s Employee of the Year award. Mr Archer has been a housing management officer working in the Inverness team for 30 years and d

The Shelter Scotland shop in Glasgow's Great Western Road is hosting a photography exhibition with all the images taken by people with experience of both mental ill-health and homelessness.

Aberdeen City Council has reminded residents near the Den Burn of their “responsibilities as landowners” as it continues efforts to prevent flooding in the area.

Covell Matthews Architects has reduced the number of homes it plans to deliver at a disused vehicle repair workshop in Edinburgh.

Arklet Housing Association has completed its transfer its engagements to Hanover (Scotland) Housing Association.

It is with great sadness that the board and staff of Partick Housing Association (PHA) announces the death of board member Margaret Burke. Margaret passed away peacefully on Tuesday 5 November after a short illness.

A failed asylum seeker who claimed that it was “unlawful” for her housing provider to evict her from temporary accommodation by changing the locks to the property without first obtaining a court order has had her appeal dismissed.

A man living with his severely disabled partner in a two-bedroom council house should receive full housing benefit because applying the so-called ‘bedroom tax’ breaches his human rights, the UK Supreme Court has ruled.

Ayrshire Housing has received a £3 million Scottish charitable bond from Allia C&C to support its latest building project in Ayr which is just getting underway.