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Caledonia Housing Association has secured planning permission for 30 new homes on an industrial site in Dundee. The £4.5 million housing development will see a mix of affordable homes and flats built on the largely-derelict site at the south side of Coldside Road, west of Strathmartine Road.

Rough sleepers in Edinburgh are being handed portable mobile phone battery chargers to help ensure their phone is sufficiently powered up for what could be a lifesaving call to a support service. Edinburgh-based homelessness charity Streetwork has identified a relatively high level of mobile phone o

A Scottish Government-funded programme to help housing associations improve their procurement is entering its final phase and there are some remaining places for associations who have not yet benefited. The programme has been well-received so far with more than 50 associations having signed up for t

A Scottish Green Party MSP is proposing changes to the law to help local councils tackle Scotland's housing crisis by controlling the growth in private homes being used as holiday accommodation. Lothian MSP Andy Wightman has today published proposed amendments to the Scottish Government's Planning B

The Trump Organisation has revealed plans to build 500 new homes as part of a £150 million second phase of development at its golf resort in Aberdeenshire. Plans have today been lodged with Aberdeenshire Council for the homes on a site within the Trump International Golf Links estate at Menie, near

A new I-SPHERE report reveals how housing associations and local authorities in England are using Fixed Term Tenancies. Beth Watts shares the main findings and reflects on their implications for the social housing sector. Since 2012, social landlords in England have been permitted to offer fixed ter

The Scottish Green Energy Awards have been recognising those who ensure the success of Scotland’s renewable energy sector for 15 years and nominations for the 2018 event open today. Twelve award categories mean all renewable technologies, projects and people have a chance to enter.

Glenpark Early Learning Centre, developed by Glasgow-based main contractor CCG, is on the site of the former Greenock Academy and is part of Inverclyde Council’s £270 million schools estate programme. A commitment by the Scottish Government to increase free early learning and childcare hours avai

(from left) Jamie Hepburn, Brian Pattinson - convenor of Loreburn Housing Association management committee, Carol Turnbull – principal at Dumfries & Galloway College and Lorraine Usher, CEO at Loreburn Housing Association Loreburn Housing Association has welcomed Jamie Hepburn, minister for bu

Paul Sweeney MP and Alistair Wood of Remarkable presented Mattie McGeouch, chair of the Co-operative, with three awards Hawthorn Housing Co-operative has been shortlisted for a national Investors in People award after it obtained three IIP awards earlier this year.

A site at Blackwater on the Isle of Lewis has been identified as potential space for new affordable housing. The site is located adjacent to the existing Gleann Dubh development.

Argyll and Bute Council has secured a grant worth around £1.6m to help make energy efficiency improvements in local homes. It will help residents install external/internal wall insulation, underfloor insulation, cavity wall insulation and loft insulation.

Some of the Committee members from EHRA handing over the cheque The Easterhouse Housing and Regeneration Alliance (EHRA) has leant its support to GlasgowNE Foodbank during the school holidays as it deals with an increase in demand.

Those over the age of 50 are more tech-savvy than ever before, according to new findings from Scottish housing and care provider Bield. Figures from Bield’s recent Customer Satisfaction Survey have highlighted just how well connected those over the age of 50 have become in terms of logging onto th

A B-Listed former Dundee jute mill is to be transformed into a block of flats after councillors gave the plans the green light. Formerly part of the Camperdown Works, Burnside Mill in Lochee was last used as a sports centre and will be turned into a complex of 39 flats.