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North Ayrshire Council is working with staff in secondary schools to ensure parents are accessing welfare benefits they are entitled to. Over the past two years, Welfare Rights Officer Audrey Ritchie has been offering parents and carers free, impartial, and confidential benefits advice and she has h

As part of the transformation of the brownfield former Viewforth High School site in Kirkcaldy, Whiteburn Projects is delighted to confirm the completion and handover of 15 affordable homes to Kingdom Housing Association.

John Swinney has been urged to restore the £200 million removed from this year’s Affordable Housing Supply Programme. In a letter to the First Minister, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) said that on top of restoring the cut, all possible ways of incre

Springfield Properties has donated £2,027 to North East Sensory Services (NESS) to support a residential activity weekend for young members from Dundee.

An innovative project that will help bring empty homes back to use has been unveiled in Dundee.

The John Lewis Partnership has received the green light to transform its Waitrose site in Bromley into a new residential community of 353 energy efficient, rental homes and a modernised store.

The Scottish Government’s flagship home energy scheme to help homeowners install heat pumps is “hardly helping” people shift towards green energy, ministers have been warned.

A gathering has been arranged in memory of Jim Harvey, who passed away this month. Friends and colleagues of Jim’s are warmly invited to attend the event next Monday afternoon 5 August at SWG3, 100 Eastvale Place, Glasgow G3 8QG.

Applications are open for funding from the South Lanarkshire Charitable Trust.

Families on low incomes in Midlothian can now apply for free school meals and clothing grants for the upcoming school year 2024/25. All children in primary 1 to 5 are eligible for free school meals, however their families must apply for clothing grants. All children in early learning and childcare c

The cream of Scotland’s young housing professionals have come together in a high-profile summit to tackle the challenges besetting the troubled sector. Experts hope that bringing together the most impressive young talent from across the country will not only prepare the next crop of housing le

North Ayrshire Council wants to hear from residents who need financial support to make their homes more energy efficient. The council’s Energy Smart programme of energy efficiency measures supports privately owned and private tenant households on low incomes to boost insulation at their proper

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today published an early analysis of the data for 2023/24 that all social landlords submit to it on empty homes and lettings and that Registered Social Landlords (RSLs) submit on their plans to build new homes. The report has found that the rate at which RSLs

New Gorbals Housing Association (NGHA) is celebrating after it won its first Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) National Award. The association’s North Gate building was one of just two Scottish projects to win, and the only one of this year’s 26 RIBA National Award winners to

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has updated Clydebank Housing Association’s regulatory status to ‘Compliant’ following the outcome of an independent review. The watchdog began engaging with Clydebank about its governance in January 2024 when it sought to clarify