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Link Group Ltd is celebrating being named as a finalist in the 2015 Scottish Charity Awards. Organised by Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO), the awards celebrate the amazing work of charities, community groups and people across Scotland who dedicate themselves to making Scotland a

Forgewood Housing Co-op Ltd and Motherwell & Wishaw Citizens Advice Bureau welcomed visitors from the Czech Republic Ministry of Social Affairs and the country’s Citizen’s Advice Bureau to North Lanarkshire.

At the Legal Services Agency we run a variety of ground-breaking and essential legal seminars each year. Our seminars vary from our upcoming seminar on judicial review and the recent legal changes in Scotland to how to draft a will, legal aid and presentation skills. We work hard to assure that our

People are being encouraged to give their views on a new housing development which is being planned for Alexander Street in Dundee at an event on Thursday. Dundee City Council and Hillcrest Housing Association have formed a partnership to build social rented houses on land south/east of Alexander St

Charles Milne One of Scotland's leading housing associations has announced that it is planning to build up to 1,000 new homes over the next five years.

The worsening condition of many tenements is a blight on local communities and in some areas feels like a return to the 60s and 70s, a new report out today has warned. The report, from the Glasgow and West of Scotland Forum of Housing Associations (GWSF), is being launched at an event at Govanhill H

Housing minister Margaret Burgess with GHA tenant Clare Carvill and GHA chair Gordon Sloan at Clare’s new home in Marfield Street A new home has changed the life of a GHA tenant in Carntyne and is even helping two of her sons get on better.

One of the new tenants and special guest Sean Batty join staff from Trust and East Dunbartonshire Council Special guest TV weatherman Sean Batty was on hand this week to officially open Trust Housing Association and East Dunbartonshire Council’s new mid market rent development at Southbank Road, K

As part of its commitment to improve communication with customers Link Group Ltd has launched a brand new website. The new website will help Link engage more effectively with its customers, especially the growing number of them who want to access information online.

New research into UK housing trends has found that more people are living alone and more are renting a home for the long term. Of the 43 per cent of those taking part in the Housing Futures Survey by Strutt & Parker who are single and planning to move in the next five years, some 75 per cent exp

Mary Barbour Sir Alex Ferguson is lending his support to a campaign to have legendary community campaigner Mary Barbour recognised with a statute in Glasgow.

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A private developer which was going to construct homes for Fife Council to purchase and make available for rent has withdrawn its planning application. Raith Developments sensationally withdrew its planning application for 36 homes at Lochty View mere hours before a public meeting on the proposed de

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has been called to give evidence on the bedroom tax to a Scottish Parliament committee. The body is being asked to testify on the efficacy of the Scottish Government's decision to mitigate the impact of the bedroom tax in Scotland, and look at h

A plan to build hundreds of flats for rent in a high-profile part of the massive Glasgow Harbour development has been given the go-ahead. Kippax, part of the Dandara Group, are building a total of 342 flats, of which 78 will be studio flats, 134 one-bedroom flats, and 130 two-bedroom flats, all of w