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Regional managing director Simon Phillips (right) and business development manager Euan McDermott Esh Border Construction has announced a raft of new multi-million pound framework partnerships within Scotland’s social housing sector.

Martin Perry Developers have unveiled plans to build 41 new homes in Edinburgh to be managed by Dunedin Canmore Housing Association.

(from left) Steven Good, director of property services, Frank Sweeney, chief executive CHA, Allison McColl, director of corporate services, Kenneth Gibson MSP, Kevin Stewart, minister for local government and housing, Linda Anderson, director of development and care services and Peter Russian, chief

The Link Group of registered social landlords, social enterprises and voluntary organisations is celebrating having been nominated for multiple awards. Link Housing Association’s Tenant Scrutiny Panel is a finalist in the ‘Tenant Participation Excellence Award’ and the ‘Scrutiny Excellence A

A new energy company set up by an East Lothian couple to give customers control of their gas and electricity has received its Ofgem licence. David Pike and Karin Sode said People’s Energy will give customers 75 per cent of its profits and provide free shares to those that remain with the company.

Dee Flanigan Govan Law Centre (GLC) is to launch a Glasgow Asylum Seekers Project with a particular focus on housing, health and the living conditions of asylum seekers and their families and children in the city.

Scottish Fire and Rescue’s Gary Canning checks out Queens Cross tenants’ Hugh McCann and Daisy Woo’s CPR technique Around 100 staff and tenants of Queens Cross Housing Association are being trained up in CPR (Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation) skills in a bid to improve cardiac arrest survival ra

Tea is served to some of the guests at Abbeyfield House Tea was served this week at Abbeyfield Scotland as a series of afternoon tea events supported by CGC got under way.

Paddy Gray One of the UK housing sector’s most eminent figures, Professor Paddy Gray, has been appointed to the Board of Wheatley Group.

Photomontage looking east along Froghall Terrace Plans to build more than 400 student homes and up to 80 flats on the site of a former BT yard in Aberdeen have been rejected by the Scottish Government.

Nicola Sturgeon announces investment funding for 13 projects at yesterday's All-Energy event District heating networks and fuel poverty initiatives across Scotland are among 13 low-carbon infrastructure projects to share £43 million of direct investment from the Scottish Government, First Minister

The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has today issued PwC with a £5 million fine, its largest fine to date, for misconduct relating to its audit of Connaught plc, a FTSE 250 social housing company which went into administration in 2010. The UK’s independent regulator for accountants and actuarie

Five Dundee people proved you are never too old to learn new skills when they were awarded employability skill-based accreditations in the city. The Gowrie Care’s clients gained their SCQF Levels 3 and 4 Adult Achievement Awards in partnership with LEAD Scotland.

Ewan Aitken of Cyrenians introduces Suzanne and Sonja at our Homelessness Conference Shelter Scotland’s Aoife Deery asks how can we learn from the experiences of those we help to improve our services?

Fresh images have unveiled how a planned development of 323 new homes on the site of Aberdeen’s former Royal Cornhill Hospital could look. The joint application to renovate the derelict part of the hospital into homes and apartments was made by NHS Grampian, Stewart Milne Homes and Barratt Scotlan