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Teams of highly skilled tradespeople from Mears Group, in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, have worked throughout the pandemic, maintaining and repairing the council’s tenanted properties and 1,200 public buildings, allowing communities to function as best they can during a period o

Malcolm Robertson, founding partner of Edinburgh-based strategic consultancy Charlotte Street Partners, has been announced as the new chair of Street Soccer Scotland. Mr Robertson who is currently chair of UNICEF UK’s Scotland Advisory Board, will bring more than 20 years of experience in stra

Scottish law firm Thorntons has donated money to SAMH, CHAS, Women’s Aid, Trussell Trust and Social Bite after staff completed a physical virtual challenge.

Blackwood Housing and Care has announced the appointment of a new director of customer service who will drive its digital services and enable its customers to live independently. Doug Moyes has taken up the new role at a critical time for the housing and care provider as it launches its new str

Shelter Scotland's assistant director for communication & advocacy, Gordon MacRae, said last week's report from the Homelessness Prevention Review Group will not necessarily safeguard and enhance existing homelessness rights and protections. Last week’s publication of the report

Residents across North Ayrshire can see for themselves how the local authority is at the cutting edge of developing homes for the future.

Permission is being sought to demolish a disused Glasgow City Council building in Cranhill and build affordable flats.

Residents of the Isle of Colonsay have launched a crowdfunding to raise £25,000 towards the costs of building community-owned affordable homes on the island. Island residents hope the campaign will gather enough support and funds to help them build four new homes to rent out long-term and keep

Local people in Ferguslie Park will have the opportunity to make their good ideas a reality as the Tannahill Centre launches its fund aimed at supporting local people deliver projects that support their community recover from the COVID-19 pandemic. For the past three months a group of local people h

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have released a landmark new report which sets out a bold new vision for the Church of England to lead by example to help solve the housing crisis, including delivering more affordable homes on its own land.

Moray Council has agreed increases in charges for housing services for the coming year, including house and garage rent, and grass cutting. Even with the agreed 3% increase in rent, which over 58% of tenants who responded to the consultation voted for, Moray Council continues to have one of the lowe

Scottish Borders Council will next week discuss a proposal to freeze Council Tax at the current level, which is the sixth lowest in mainland Scotland, for 2021/22. This follows confirmation that the Scottish Government will compensate local authorities who choose to freeze Council Tax in the next fi

Routine indoor visiting of care home residents by relatives, friends and carers will be able to resume in Scotland from early March with care providers supporting residents to have up to two designated visitors each and one visit a week for each visitor. With a wide range of protections now in place

Growing awareness of environmental issues will encourage builders and developers to make new homes ever greener in the coming years and decades. Queensberry Properties’ sales and marketing director, Hazel Davies, identifies four main areas by which tomorrow’s homes will reduce their envi

Work has started on the first new homes to be built at the development in East Lothian with more good news to come later this year, according to developer Hargreaves Land. Blindwells, which is located less than 10 miles east of Edinburgh, has outline planning permission for 1,600 homes. Hargrea