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Gillian Guy Some payday lenders are still failing to carry out basic checks to make sure borrowers can afford to pay back their loans, new Citizens Advice research has uncovered.

(from left) Tom Scholes (chair), George Peacock, Sheila Gillies (deputy chair), Andrew Kubski, Linda Bailey, Murray Leys, Alan Frizzell Scottish social care charity Quarriers has strengthened its board with the appointment of five new trustees following a far-reaching recruitment process.

(from left) Ruth Simpson, chair, WSHA; tenants Jean Bell and Rita Gallagher; Kevin Stewart MSP and Lynne Donnelly, chief executive, WSHA (image credit: Iain McLean Photography) West of Scotland Housing Association (WSHA) was joined by minister for local government and housing Kevin Stewart MSP and C

A new guide to ensure refugees’ right to quality accommodation is upheld has been issued to housing professionals. Published by the Scottish Refugee Council with the support of the Scottish Government and the Chartered Institute of Housing Scotland, the updated guide aims to ensure that all refuge

Council leader Jenny Laing (centre) during the ‘Shaping Middlefield’ public engagement event earlier this year A major housing redevelopment programme in Middlefield has been given the green light by Aberdeen City Council.

Aubrey Fawcett Inverclyde Council has appointed Aubrey Fawcett as its new chief executive to replace John Mundell OBE who is set to retire from the council in September.

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

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