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Clive Feeney The Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) have announced plans to hold their first-ever awards ceremony this year to celebrate housing associations, local authorities and their supply chain partners throughout Scotland.

Victoria Hills Most local authorities across Scotland have relegated the planning function to lower positions in their corporate structure, according to a new survey by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI).

This week, Aberdeen FC teamed up with Scottish homelessness charity Bethany Christian Trust to give people less fortunate the experience of a lifetime.

Housing Minister Kevin Stewart The Scottish Government has announced legislation to make sprinkler systems compulsory in new social housing.

Mariangela Veronesi All housing organisations must implement a programme of training to enable a better understanding of the housing needs of LGBTQ+ people, according to a new report published today.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland, along with its development partner Caledonian Properties Ltd, will host a public exhibition of its proposals to deliver a residential development of new homes along with associated engineering and infrastructure works through the development of land at Auchinairn Road,

Pupils at Knowepark Primary School in Selkirk were given hands-on experience of the world when Scottish Borders Housing Association recently visited their school.

The Bield Improvement Group (BIG) has been recognised as Scotland's most inspiring tenant group at a recent awards ceremony.

Quay Community Initiatives, along with Changeworks, has transformed a former Barratt show flat in Lochend using second-hand furniture and soft furnishings as part of the Zero Waste Leith project.

New tenant Dylan Bogue Fourteen people have moved into a ground-breaking Albyn Housing Society development that unites the priorities of healthcare, housing provision and tenant welfare.

Esther Wilson The 2018 CIH Scotland Excellence Awards, which recognise and celebrate the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across the breadth of the sector in Scotland, are now open for applications.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has today launched a consultation on its draft British Sign Language (BSL) Plan, as required by the British Sign Language (Scotland) Act 2015. The plan sets out how the Regulator will ensure that BSL users can easily engage with it, and how it will make information acc

A planning appeal by a dairy firm to deliver 600 homes and infrastructure on land at Airthrey Kerse in Stirling has been dismissed by the Scottish Government.

Jackie Browne Tenants of North Ayrshire social housing provider ANCHO have voted overwhelmingly in favour of a new partnership with Cairn Housing Association which will deliver accelerated investment in homes and a five-year rent guarantee with services still being delivered in the local area.

Shelter Scotland has urged the Scottish Government to act quickly to prevent the recent progress on homelessness being reversed after new “shocking” new figures revealed an annual increase in homelessness applications. Official homelessness and housing options statistics, published in two report