Twenty-seven affordable new two and three-bedroomed homes will be created by the latest phase of the redevelopment of Devilla in Kincardine, Fife, which is now under way. The £3.6 million development of new homes, on the site of former high rise flats owned by Fife Council, is scheduled for complet
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Construction has started on a new £2.5 million housing development in Moray for adults with complex care and support needs. The work marks the first major project to be taken forward by the Moray Integration Joint Board (IJB) which has responsibility for bringing together a wide range of health and
Councillors have deferred a decision on whether to approve plans to build more than 100 homes for NHS staff and teachers in Aberdeen. NHS Grampian lodged proposals with Aberdeen City Council late last year to create 110 homes on the former nurses’ accommodation complex at Foresterhill Court at Abe
Kirsty Wells By Kirsty Wells, head of HouseMark Scotland
Plans have been submitted for hundreds of homes at a brownfield site on the edge of Perth. Glasgow-based consortium Perth City West has outlined proposals for up to 270 new homes on the site of the former Perth Mart off Crieff Road.
The team at Tayside MS Therapy Centre, and the people who benefit from the service, have spoken of their delight at the efforts of four Dundee businesses who cooked up a new kitchen for the centre earlier this month. Tayside MS Therapy Centre is a self-help, self-funding group of people affected by
Rosalind Main & Graeme Brown A multi-disciplinary artist from Edinburgh who recently graduated with a BA in 3D Design has turned her talents to raise funds to help people facing bad housing and homelessness.
Craig Brown launches the Hampden Snore fundraiser People are being given the chance to join Law, Bremner, Souness and Dalglish in becoming Hampden legends by taking part in a pitch-side SleepOut.
The Scottish Housing Regulator is to continue its statutory appointment of a manager and three governing body members at Ferguslie Park Housing Association for at least another seven months. The Regulator made the statutory appointments in February after it identified “serious weaknesses in govern
David Bookbinder The Scottish Social Housing Charter has largely been a success story and should not be subject to major changes, the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF) has said.
Grampian Housing Association has unveiled proposals to convert a derelict petrol station in Fraserburgh into new homes. Barbour’s Garage has been empty since a grocery shop run from the premises was forced to close down in January last year.
Margaret Turner, chairperson of Forth, with other project group members Forth Housing Association has started the construction of a small development of eight homes in Dunblane without the need of a Scottish Government grant.
Bill Banks, Kingdom chief executive (centre) with the trainees (from left to right) Richard Miller (Development), Morgan Anderson (Human Resources), Michael Mayes (Finance) and Nathan Connolly (Property Services – Plumbing) Kingdom Housing Association has recruited four trainees who, over the next
(from left) Craig Green of Glasgow Kelvin College, with GHA chair Gordon Sloan, centre, and GHA tenant Raymond Fletcher at the opening of the latest free computer learning centre in Toryglen, Glasgow John Wheatley Learning Network, the flourishing partnership between Glasgow Kelvin College and Wheat
Loans of up to £175,000 are now available to help people build their own homes in the Highlands. The Scottish Government’s £4 million Highland Self-Build Loan Fund, which launched earlier this year, is extending opportunities for people to self and custom build homes across the region.