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This year Albyn Housing Society has already delivered 37 homes in Alness Albyn Housing Society is set to embark on an ambitious plan to deliver up to 750 new affordable homes in the region by 2021, with the potential for even more.
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Reducing the cost of living for tenants and building more affordable homes have been identified as the key elements to a new raft of objectives to improve housing in Edinburgh. A nine-point action plan for the next decade was approved for further consultation by the City of Edinburgh Council’s hea
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An affordable housing development was opened in Banff this week by Aberdeenshire Provost Hamish Vernal as part of the Banff Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARs). The redevelopment of the gap site at Carmelite Street has been key in the wider regeneration of Banff town centre.
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(from left) Ilene Campbell, TIS chief executive; Yvonne Baulk, head of physical environment at North Ayrshire Council; Tracey Wilson, tenant participation manager at North Ayrshire Council and Elaine Byrne, Scotland’s Housing Network director North Ayrshire Council has achieved a Gold accreditatio
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Dovecot Court in Peebles Members of Scottish Borders Council’s executive committee will be asked to commit to assisting the development of extra care housing across the region at a meeting next week.
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Ayrshire Housing tenants at the AGM Attendees at Ayrshire Housing’s 2016 Annual General Meeting heard that the Association’s finances remain healthy and its staff are meeting the challenging delivery targets set by the Board.
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Staff and tenants receive their floral gifts A special anniversary was commemorated at Thenue Housing this week – 21 years on from its first-ever stock transfer.
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With average savings of £271, ‘It pays to switch’ is the message North Lanarkshire Council is promoting to residents as it launches its latest collective fuel switching campaign. Over 3,000 households have already saved hundreds of pounds on their bills through the easy to use switching scheme.
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Richard Lambert A survey of residential property investors has found that one in five are often too embarrassed to admit they are landlords.
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New research has exposed how the growing numbers of Scots whose incomes vary month to month can struggle to pay essential bills and meet their debt repayments. According to the Debt Advisory Centre, just over 1 million Scots have a job where their income is variable, this includes those on zero hour
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Miller Homes has announced it plans to continue its “substantial” land investment programme after the firm unveiled a 66 per cent rise in interim profits. "Buoyant" market conditions helped the Edinburgh-based group towards a profit before tax of £38.2 million for the six months to the end of J
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Mary's inspiring green home The ‘Green Designs’ open doors series will reach Alexandria this weekend when homeowners Mary and Ian Sweetland invite local residents to look through the keyhole at their green home.
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David Bookbinder New guidance has been issued to help housing associations make the right amount of information available both to tenants and other stakeholders.
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Elderpark Housing Association is to transform a former Govan school into new offices after the sale of the site was approved by Glasgow City Council. The local authority’s executive committee gave the green light to the £283,743 sale of the former Hill's Trust School in Govan from City Property (
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