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What is PlanForm? PlanForm is HouseMark’s HRA business plan comparison tool. Following a successful pilot and launch in England we have adapted the product to meet the needs of Scottish local authorities.

A local heat storage initiative by Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association is one of five projects across Scotland to benefit from more than £20 million in funding that will help reshape how energy is delivered and used in communities throughout the country. The funding allocation, from the Local E

39 new houses at the West Langlands Street development in Kilmarnock are expected to be completed by the end of the month, with the keys being handed to new tenants just after Easter. The site comprises a mix of accessible accommodation and larger family homes. It will provide one and two bedroom fl

A Dumfriesshire estate owner who has provided pioneering, low energy housing has told a cross-party group of MSPs about the role such developments could play in easing fuel poverty and the shortage of affordable rural homes across Scotland. Jamie Carruthers, owner of the Dormont Estate, was at the S

The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has backed a call for an end to the current UK housing crisis. The call comes as thousands gathered in London yesterday for a large housing rally which called on all political parties to commit to ending the current UK housing crisis within a ge

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Loreburn Housing Association and the Let’s Get Sporty project has successfully applied for Putting You First Funding which will allow activities to be held at Loreburn sheltered developments across Dumfries and Galloway. Putting You First (PYF) is a five year Change Programme for Dumfries and Gall

Maryhill Housing Association has been doing its bit to raise money for Comic Relief.In a day of fundraising, staff raised a red hot £285 for the charity, which raised a colossal £78 million on Red Nose Day 2015 last Friday.

A group of ng homes tenants are ensuring their landlord delivers the best possible services to its customers and also highlighting where improvements need to be made. Tenants Scrutiny Panels are made up of tenants whose aim is to have greater transparency in how Housing Associations operate and to h

A law banning so-called ‘revenge evictions’ in England was passed yesterday by the House of Lords. Passed as part of the Deregulation Bill, the new law will prohibit landlords from evicting tenants who complain about conditions in their homes.

A Dumfries-based homeless support charity has received a grant of almost £5,000 from a Dumfries and Galloway Housing Partnership (DGHP) tenant committee. SHAX, based at the Crichton in Dumfries, received a cheque for £4,750 from the Nithsdale District Management Committee (DMC).

The lives of a Glasgow family have been transformed with a move to the former 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village, in Dalmarnock. The village was home to around 7,000 competitors and officials during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games, but is now becoming home to hundreds of families. The f

A Scottish Parliament committee has sent evidence that shows the link between the UK government’s welfare reform and an increase in the use of food banks to Scotland Office minister David Mundell MP. The move by the Welfare Reform Committee follows a call from Mr Mundell to show him evidence of th

Over half a million people in Scotland lived on less than half the average income in 2012/13 while six in ten people in relative poverty were in severe or extreme poverty, new data has revealed.Analysis by the Scottish Government shows 510,000 people were classed as living in households in severe o