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George Walker delivers the latest on the Scottish Housing Regulator’s review of its Regulatory Framework. As you know, we’ve been having an important discussion with our stakeholders on the future of social housing regulation in Scotland. Since January we’ve held a series of roundtable events

Monica Lennon Scottish Labour is to put forward plans to introduce new rights for communities over planning decisions, in a bid to “level the playing field” between developers and the public.

Hebridean Housing Partnership (HHP) is expanding its “highly successful” shared equity scheme to rural sites across the Outer Hebrides with the support of the Scottish Government. Sites are currently being identified to expand the New Supply Shared Equity (NSSE) scheme and are currently hoped to

Proposals for a £606,000 investment in the expansion of the Torry district heating network are to be progressed after backing from Aberdeen City Council. Councillors on the capital programme committee considered the plans yesterday and gave their approval to add to the existing network in Balnagask

Homelessness prevention charity Cyrenians is seeking £500,000 from businesses to support its work in Edinburgh as it marks its 50th anniversary year of helping rough sleepers. The campaign is being supported by Essential Edinburgh, the Business Improvement District (BID) for Edinburgh City Centre,

Kathleen McAnea Kathleen McAnea outlines why developers should review a recent case when procuring works and considering the extent of their design consultant’s liability.

Tenants of Govanhill Housing Association are set to benefit from the latest phase of a housing improvement programme with the installation of new, high-quality windows. Works are set to cover up to 89 properties and will be undertaken by specialist construction firm CCG (Scotland) Ltd.

A newly settled resident has become the 500th tenant to move into a new build council home by North Lanarkshire Council. Mrs Doloros Gunn, who’s now happily settled in to her new build council home in Chapelhall, said: “I was very surprised to be told that I’m the 500th tenant to move in to a

Effective approaches for Scotland to use publicly created increases in land value to help finance the infrastructure needed to deliver new housing and other development have been highlighted in a report published today. Written for the Scottish Land Commission by a team from Heriot-Watt University,

Fiona Nicholl Fiona Nicholl has been appointed as Shettleston Housing Association’s new finance and corporate services director.

Image by Brandon Leon – Flickr: Day 25: Fire Sprinkler, CC BY-SA 2.0 Proposals for mandatory fire sprinklers in new-build social housing have been met with overwhelming public support, Scottish Labour has revealed.

McTaggart Construction has been appointed to the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) H1 Framework for housing delivery following a rigorous procurement exercise. The framework has been developed to assist the Scottish Government’s target to deliver 50,000 new homes by 2021 and enables any publicly

Steven Monaghan (centre) with joiner Andy Stevenson (left) and Steven’s mentor joiner William Bennett (right) A trail-blazing link-up between Glen Oaks Housing Association and the youth employment charity WorkingRite to give young people a training and jobs lifeline is celebrating five years of su

Innovative new glasses which could revolutionise the way in which visually impaired athletes train and compete are one of the many exciting entries for an innovative design competition. The as yet unnamed concept is the brainchild of Andrew Taylor, a 24-year-old graduate from the University of Bath

Professor Glen Bramley reflects on the interim report of a new study investigating housing supply requirements across Great Britain for low-income households and homeless people, and the key policy challenges facing government and the housing sector. To the greatest extent in more than a generation,