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CIH Scotland has announced that a lifetime achievement award will be included in its Excellence Awards in November. The winner of the new category will be someone who has demonstrated true professionalism and has made a difference to the communities they have served. The lifetime achievement award i

(from left) Business development manager Nick Clark, Board chair Susan McDonald and CEO Andrew Saunders with the new Renault Zoe electric car and charging points at the Ore Valley Business Centre Ore Valley Group has contributed to the current global push towards more sustainable greener transport w

Sean Duffy, chief executive of Wise Group Inverclyde residents are set to benefit in the ongoing fight to eradicate fuel poverty after one of Scotland’s biggest social enterprises won two key contracts to deliver vital services for three of the region’s main housing associations.

Glasgow City Council could be facing a period of unprecedented financial pressure on services because of the potential cost of resolving equal pay claims, the Accounts Commission has warned. A new report issued by the spending watchdog today has praised the local authority for making “steady progr

West Dunbartonshire Council’s building services team has achieved a quality standard for their work across the area’s homes. The International Standard EN ISO 9001:2015 was awarded after audits were conducted at sites in Clydebank, Dumbarton, Alexandria and Bonhill earlier this year.

Gail Matheson, Highland Housing Alliance; Cllr Janet Campbell; Cllr. Bet McAllister; Highland Council leader Cllr Margaret Davidson and minister for local government, housing and planning, Kevin Stewart, at the new homes at Raining's Close The Highland Housing Alliance (HHA) led housing minister Kev

Proposals for residential development at Longniddry South will be unveiled to the public next week. Developers Cruden Homes (East) and ZeroC will be displaying their proposals for development at the Longniddry Inn on August 29 from 3pm to 8pm.

CALA Homes (West) has submitted a joint planning application for a proposed new housing development at Greenan in Ayr. The homebuilder seeks to create a high quality development of 62 homes, off Dunure Road, within the previously consented site.

Regeneration firm Urban Union has got behind one of Scotland’s landmark events on the Highland Games calendar by sponsoring this year’s Perth Highland Games. The Perth Highland Games took place in early August and for the first time in its history at a new location, at Scone Palace. Despite the

More than 1,800 new homes will be built in Hamilton as part of a huge investment in the town from the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal. Woodhead Primary School will also be extended as part of the Hamilton Community Growth Area (CGA) at a cost of £4.1m.

A total of 238 affordable homes are planned for Badenoch and Strathspey over the next five years, the Highland Council has announced. Highland’s Local Housing Strategy sets the targets for affordable housing, and the Highland’s Strategic Housing Investment Plan sets out how resources will be use

Apprentice Adam Robertson with John Reynolds, MD of Saltire, and Maureen Morris, chair of Wellhouse Young adults from the Easterhouse area of Glasgow have been given more employment opportunities thanks to a partnership between Wellhouse Housing Association and Saltire Facilities Management Ltd.

Jeremy Corbyn Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will today meet asylum seeker families in Glasgow threatened with eviction by outsourcing giant Serco and call for such services to be delivered by not for profit public bodies.

The Blackness Road flats have been approved for demolition. Image credit: Google Street View Dundee City Council is to seek compulsory purchase orders (CPOs) in order to progress its plans to demolish 26 flats and replace them with modern flats and a shop.

Minister for local government, housing and planning, Kevin Stewart, visited a housing development in Inverness on Monday to mark the completion of the 750th new council home built in the Highlands since the re-introduction of the Council House Build Programme in 2010. The Kirk Brae development in In