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Cairn Housing Association has celebrated its 25th anniversary in style with a film showcasing some of the projects supported by the Cairn Community Fund over the last year. The fund is available for tenants and community groups to apply for small grants to support projects in their neighbourhoods.

Company founders Graeme and Leanne Carling at Alloway Halls A Dundee property and investment firm has unveiled a “multi-million pound plan” to create affordable homes after it acquired a block of Abertay University halls of residence.

Fife Council has revealed it will host the House Builders Forum at the Carnegie Conference Centre in Dunfermline tomorrow. The event provides an opportunity for local building contractors, development companies and those employed within related professional services to discuss various issues within

Proposals to transform the last remaining example of Gorbals tenemental architecture into flats and community facilities have been submitted to Glasgow City Council. Led by Southside Housing Association, the major restoration project will see the former British Linen Bank brought back to life as six

Work on reviewing the Fife Local Development Plan (LDP) has been further delayed due to “unforeseen circumstances”, the Scottish Government has announced. The Fife LDP sets out land use planning policies to guide where development should and should not go over the next 20 years.

Digital Innovation will feature at the upcoming CIH Scotland Housing Innovation & Technology Showcase, 27 October, Glasgow As Housing Association budgets continue to be stretched, Managed Service and Solution Providers need to be finding and providing innovative ways to create the much needed c

John Maher's image of a TV room in an abandoned crofting home on the Western Isles The ex-Buzzcocks drummer John Maher is to take to the stage at a conference on returning empty homes to use.

Glasgow Kelvin College and Thenue staff with some of the participants from the most recent course A trailblazing course developed by Thenue Housing Association and Glasgow Kelvin College to help the unemployed learn new skills and improve their job prospects has celebrated a new milestone.

Adam Lang Adam Lang at Shelter Scotland outlines the importance of new research which reveals what people in Britain regard as essential attributes for their homes.

Staff working for Orkney Islands Council are to be balloted over whether to take industrial action amid new pay proposals. The local authority revealed a number of payment options which aim to helping address an anticipated £9.5 million shortfall in its budget over the next three years.

The average price of a property in Scotland reached £144,561 in August, 4.3 per cent higher than the previous year and 1.3 per cent higher when compared to the previous month, according to official figures. The latest UK House Price Index (UK HPI) found that the biggest price increase over the last

A project to devise easy-to-use heat pump guides for Orkney Housing Association (OHAL) residents is in the running for a national award. The Energy Ideas Fund Heat Pump Project, which was run in partnership with the James Hutton Institute and heat pump manufacturers NIBE, has been shortlisted in the

(from left) Diners George Watson, Stewart Rosie and Gary Baker with Layla Gassabi of Maison Bleue restaurants Homeless people in Edinburgh have been treated to a fine dining meal at a chic new restaurant for the first time.

From hairdressers to caterers, performers to podiatrists, dedicated volunteers are needed to help bring Crisis’ temporary centre in Edinburgh for homeless people to life this Christmas.

Housing and care provider Bield is looking for a volunteer befriender to support an older person who lives in Moorfoot Court, a retirement housing development in Bonnyrigg. Volunteer befrienders build positive relationships with service users, visiting them on a regular basis in their flats and spen