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Brenda Higgins Wishaw and District Housing Association (WDHA) is to formally consult tenants on plans to merge with another housing association following a strategic review of the organisation.

Kyrena MacKay and her son outside their new home at Kirk Brae in Inverness. Image by Phil Downie Councillor Trish Robertson joined staff from Highland Council’s Inverness housing management and development teams to pay a house warming visit this week to wish a tenant all the best in her new home a

Fife Council is calling for local people to become involved in the creation of a development plan for the Kirkcaldy area. A consultation is open to everyone in the area, covering Kinghorn, Burntisland and Auchtertool, and runs until the end of August.

Renfrewshire Council has launched a brand new fund to help communities take ownership of local buildings or land. The £1.5 million Community Empowerment Fund will allow communities to use the buildings or land to make a positive difference in their area.

Homelessness charity Cyrenians is celebrating three years of its community garden Green Learning Project run. Situated at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and Midlothian Community Hospital, the gardens provide opportunities for people to get outside and grow food, bringing people together and reducing s

Maryhill Housing Association has joined the growing list of Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) frustrating the planned evictions of over 300 asylum seekers in Glasgow by telling Serco that it cannot change its locks without consent. The Home Office contractor had issued lock-change orders to tenants

A new housing development has been completed in the Black Isle village of Muir of Ord as Cairn Housing Association delivers on its commitment to build 400 new houses over the next five years. Ten affordable new homes, comprised of two and three bedrooms, were built at Corry Road by Urquhart & Co

Langstane Housing Association has congratulated its property services officers on passing their recent City & Guilds training course ‘Understanding buildings and managing repairs’. Toni Sherriffs, Andrew Kemp, Neil Irvine and Colin Hay passed the training programme which aims to provide dele

Hillcrest Group is continuing its 50 Faces of Hillcrest series of films to celebrate its 50th anniversary and its people. Below are faces 17-41.

Recommendations to house a new Inclusive Homelessness Service on the site of the former Panmure St Ann’s school have been approved by the Edinburgh Integration Joint Board (EIJB). The new operational base will allow the co-location of NHS Lothian, City of Edinburgh Council and third sector agencie

Over forty Kingdom Housing Association tenants and their families travelled to Craigtoun Country Park, St Andrews last week to celebrate the association's third annual gathering in brilliant sunshine. Bill Banks, Kingdom's chief executive, opened the event by talking about the many ways in which cus

LinkLiving (part of the Link group of social enterprises) hosted the Google Digital Garage Bus at its Link Academy facility in Falkirk this week. As part of the free all-day event, over 30 local people received digital skills training from the experts at Google and enjoyed a BBQ in the Link Academy

Cloch Housing Association is hosting a Gala Day in Greenock today to celebrate 50 years in operation. Among the great things going on are craft stall, live music, a prize raffle and a chance to meet Bernie the T Rex.

Modern building materials used in energy efficient homes can make mobile phone signals weaker indoors by one million times, new research has found. A study commissioned by the telecoms regulator Comreg has concluded that the increased use of materials such as foil-layered insulation as well as alumi

Tammy Swift-Adams Scotland’s housebuilders have called for a bold plan for housing to be enacted to fully reap the benefits of the Edinburgh and South East City Region Deal.