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East Dunbartonshire Council and Antonine and Hillhead housing associations have launched a key amnesty across the region to help free up homes for those in genuine need. As part of the amnesty, council and housing association tenants who have made a false housing application, are subletting their ho

Councillors will be asked in March to formally approve the latest blueprint for future development in Aberdeenshire after Scottish Ministers concluded their assessment of the council’s vision for the region. This marks the near completion of a four-year process of identifying how housing and busin

Blackwood is one of the latest new North Lanarkshire Council housing developments to see building work begin on site. A sod cutting event took place to mark the construction of 30 modern and affordable council homes in Cardowan Drive, Blackwood, Cumbernauld.

A grade B listed Town House in Lochgelly has received a makeover and stylish conversion into four flats by Fife Council Building Services. The work has involved sensitive restoration retaining and restoring many of the original features of the building.

Mark McDonald Projects to support children and families coping with disabilities, mental health problems and the challenges associated with poverty and charities working more widely with children, families and adult learners are among dozens of beneficiaries of grants worth a total of £15 million c

Up to 600,000 homes and businesses in remote locations across the UK are to benefit from the roll-out of superfast broadband. A total of £440 million of funding has been unlocked by the UK government to give properties in hard-to-reach parts of Scotland and the rest of the UK quick and reliable int

Marie Campbell and Mike Munro of Storehouse Foodbank in Bo'ness who received funding from the last round of Esh Communities scheme Groups that aim to change their communities for the better are being sought for the chance to receive grant support from Esh Border Construction.

Tenants at a Bield Retirement Housing Development in Cumbernauld have worked hard with the community to ensure disadvantaged children across Europe can enjoy a Merry Christmas with something to unwrap. More than 50 hats were made while development manager, Elizabeth Fox, designed her very own puppet

A surprise mini-hamper was delivered to the doors of 10 of River Clyde Homes’ longstanding tenants recently. In a pre-Christmas ‘thank-you’ the Inverclyde-based housing association trawled its records and discovered the 10 longest tenancies held for more than 50 years.

Aberdeen Asset Management’s apprentice fundraisers, from left, Hannah Booth, Raegan McBain, Sam McGrath, Rachel Adam and Harry Rothnie Christmas came early for Aberdeen Cyrenians when the homelessness charity took delivery of a bumper £14,000 donation raised by apprentices from Aberdeen Asset Man

(from left) Ken Linton from Trussell Trust with Pat Rourke, Lucy Rourke, Joyce Sturrock and Lisa Mannion with Thorntons donation Dundee-based solicitor, Lisa Mannion, is helping feed vulnerable people over the festive period by organising a collection for a local foodbank.

Manager of West Lothian Women’s Aid, Ilena Brown, with chief executive at Almond Housing Association, George Webster With only few days left before Christmas Almond Housing Association has announced it will be funding West Lothian Women's Aid’s Festive Films and Food initiative.

Appointments and company awards figure prominently in our first segment of the 30 most read stories of 2016. Here, in reverse order of number of times viewed, are numbers 30-21. 30. Nation’s best housebuilders honoured at Scottish Home Awards

Karen McIntosh Concluding our series of Just A Minute profiles of housing association finance directors, run in partnership with our sister publication Scottish Financial News, is Karen McIntosh, director of strategic finance at Hanover Scotland.

Maureen Cope The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) must reconsider its plans to close eight of the sixteen Jobcentres in Glasgow, according to the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF).