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Housing associations L&Q and the Hyde Group have agreed to abandon their merger plans after months of negotiations.

There is still time to give the Scottish Government your views and help to develop a Scottish Social Housing Charter for the next five years. The consultation closes on 24th August 2016.

Iain Edmans Physical risk management specialists ACS Group has appointed Iain Edmans to the new position of asbestos technical manager.

Bield is looking for several volunteers to support tenants by increasing their community involvement and helping to reduce isolation. Mansewood Court Retirement Housing Development in Whitburn, West Lothian, is looking to recruit a befriender to get to know and socialise with tenants, helping to bro

A modified draft of the Angus Local Development Plan (ALDP) has been agreed which identifies land for the development of around 330 new homes per annum across the area to 2026. Given the green light by Angus Council this week, the plan also gives continued support for existing sites and brownfield o

Hawthorn Housing Co-operative is to develop its successful estate caretaking service following a grant of £25,000 from Glasgow City Council’s co-operative development unit. The Co-op will use the grant to purchase a shipping container to provide a base and storage for the team, a van, a trailer,

Crofters in some of Scotland’s rural and remote communities will benefit from better housing through funding from the Scottish Government. Cabinet secretary for rural economy Fergus Ewing confirmed 21 crofters will share over £705,000 from the Croft House Grant scheme.

A “fuel bank” which offers pre-pay meter vouchers to those struggling to afford to light and heat their homes has opened in Glasgow. The initiative, which gives people who are suffering from food poverty pre-payment meter vouchers for gas or electricity, is available at Glasgow South East Foodba

Forty acres of land for a residential led mixed-use development in Edinburgh has been put up for sale by the National Grid. The Forthquarter site in Granton – which includes the Granton gasholder – has been put up for sale in a bid to deliver much needed family housing to meet unsatisfied demand

Dalmarnock old and new - how did the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games impact the post-industrial neighbourhood? Planning research projects from across the UK and internationally have been shortlisted for this year’s RTPI Awards for Research Excellence.

Just over 1 million adults in Scotland think that they have a debt problem nearly three quarters of which are worrying about their debt all or most of the time, new figures show. Statistics released by Debt Advisory Centre show that overall 1 in 5 people (20 per cent) diagnose themselves as “havin

Miss Piggy with volunteers Natalia Dobrowska and Carol Cullen A six foot tall papier mâché model of Muppets favourite Miss Piggy has become a temporary Motherwell landmark after being loaned out to mark the first birthday of a local charity shop.

Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) has been given the green light to build 152 homes in the Ibrox area of the city. The development will see 116 socially rented homes and 36 homes for mid-market rent constructed on a currently derelict site bounded by Broomloan Road, Skene Road and Paisley Road West.

The Riverside Group has announced that 64 jobs are at risk of redundancy as it needs to make efficiency savings due to government cuts. The North West social housing provider, which owns 6,000 properties, needs to close a £30 million gap in its finances over the next three years.

Keith Vaz MP Keith Vaz, the chairman of the House of Commons Home Affairs committee, has said that Scotland has “led the way” in the UK’s efforts to resettle refugees fleeing the war in Syria.