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Corsehill P5 poster winner Hollie with Kathryn Morrison Irvine Housing Association (IHA) has visited pupils at Abbey Primary and Corsehill Primary to deliver interactive sessions on careers advice and energy efficiency to the Kilwinning youngsters.

(from left) Lovell business development manager Sarah Freel presents the donation to PRYDE project manager Theresa Potter with Irvine Housing Association development officer Leanne Lynch Community group Pennyburn Regeneration Youth Development Enterprise (PRYDE) which runs The Playz community centre

Full house… the busy AGM at Maryhill Housing associations are the anchor that holds communities together and encourages them to thrive, Maryhill Housing Association’s shareholding members were told this week.

Lindsay Lauder (Loreburn), Margaret Burgess MSP, Shaun McIntyre (tenant) and his mother Anne, John McNaught (LHA Convener) and Fiona Pennington (Loreburn) Loreburn Housing Association welcomed Scottish minister for housing & welfare, Margaret Burgess MSP to officially open its newly completed de

Social Investment Scotland chairman Nick Kuenssberg and chief executive Alastair Davis in their office on Broughton Place Increased third sector lending by Social Investment Scotland has supported the creation of hundreds of new jobs and an increase in trading income by its customers over the past y

Work on a £6 million affordable housing project in South Ayrshire is on target to finish in May 2016, the local authority has announced. Councillors were on site at the Lochside housing development to get an update on the project. Work is on schedule and has been progressing at a steady pace to ens

Robert Packham, Linda Dunion and Dave Doogan (far left) with other members of the Pathfinder Board ahead of their final meeting The integration of Health and Social Care services in Perth and Kinross reached a milestone when the final meeting of the Integration Pathfinder Board was held, to be repla

Cruden apprentices Cruden Building & Renewals Limited has taken on two apprentices thanks to sponsorship by Action for Children, Sanctuary Scotland and Wheatley Group.

Macclesfield-based Peaks & Plains Housing Trust is the latest housing association to announce that it may need to make a number of redundancies in the face of UK government reductions in social housing rents. Peaks & Plains, which owns and manages 5,000 homes across East Cheshire and employs

Drew Hendry MP addressed the audience as the Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust held its AGM/Open Day on Friday. The event, at the Townhouse in Inverness, included an interactive session where discussion groups fed back their thoughts on the main issues affecting rural communities.

The upward trend in the number of new homes registered by local authorities in Scotland in 2015 was halted slightly between June and August, according to new figures. The National House Building Council (NHBC) said that 3,471 new homes were registered over the quarter compared to 3,543 homes between

Annie Mauger The Chartered Institute of Housing in Scotland has added its voice to growing concerns over the potential impact of the UK government’s 2015 Immigration Bill on migrants living in the private rented sector.

A new report commissioned by the Scottish Government has highlighted an emerging gap between the housing aspirations of younger and older households. Co-authored by the University of St Andrews and the University of Sheffield, ‘Understanding the Housing Aspirations of People in Scotland’ highlig

The development firm owned by Sir David Murray has submitted proposals for the first phase of a £1 billion “Garden District” in Edinburgh. Murray Estates’ plans will see 1500 homes, a new primary school and a network of roads and streets built on land next to Edinburgh Park and the Royal Bank

Cllrs Ross & Hamilton on site with ward members Cllrs John O'Brien & Jim Young, Stewart Shearer (director of Robertson Partnership Homes) and project officers Work has started on Fife Council’s latest housing development of 101 new affordable homes in Methil.