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Glasgow City Council has accepted £2.316 million of Scottish Government funding to help address vacant and derelict land in 2020/21 and has approved a plan for delivery. Vacant and derelict land is an issue for Glasgow as the city has consistently had the highest conce

Plans have been proposed to convert a part of a hotel parking area in west Glasgow into a block of flats. Jurys Inn and Leonardo Hotel have applied to Glasgow City Council for planning permission in principle in relation to their premises at Great Western Road, beside Gartnavel Hospital.

Residents are being encouraged to have their say on proposals to create new town hubs across North Lanarkshire. As part of a 10-year plan which will see investment of £3.5 billion, create thousands of new job opportunities and enhanced community facilities, a number of potential sites have bee

Local teams supporting north-east charity Aberdeen Cyrenians have reached the end of their 555-mile challenge to virtually tour Scottish premiership stadiums by the end of September.

Bill Banks, group chief executive with Kindgom, has been looking back over the last six months to review the organisation's response to the pandemic and identifying changes to the way services have been delivered and to how tenants have been supported. At Kingdom, everyone was working as normal on M

The Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR) has ended its statutory intervention at Ruchazie Housing Association following a series of improvements at the landlord. Ruchazie has been in statutory engagement since March 2018 when the Regulator used its statutory powers to appoint a manager and four members

Caledonia Housing Association has appointed a new chair following its Annual General Meeting last month.  Alan Nairn has been a board member since 2017 and has served as vice-chair of the Association for the past two years. He worked in health and local government for over 25 years within the c

The Scottish Government’s £24 billion infrastructure investment plan could fall short of providing the affordable housing need facing Scotland over the next five years, a collection of housing organisations have warned.

In the run-up to the Holyrood election in May 2021, the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) has outlined its calls to Scotland’s political parties, with the publication of its new manifesto, Housing Scotland: Building Our Social and Economic Recovery.  SFHA’s man

A residential portfolio comprising 118 residential properties across the Central Belt of Scotland has been sold by Places for People to private clients of Tay Letting for c.£10 million. The portfolio of properties was spread across eight developments in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Paisl

Introducing Homeless Network Scotland's annual conference, which takes place later this month, the charity's head of external relations Martin Gavin highlights one event which tackles the politics of homelessness policy. Across the world, huge resources are deployed to try to understand an

Inverclyde-based housing association River Clyde Homes has recently launched a Customer Care policy which outlines its Service Standards. The standards cover how River Clyde Homes will: contact customers; interact with customers; keep them informed; give access to information; provide a quality

Berwickshire Housing Association (BHA) has given financial support to the Swinton-based Horse Time charity to help fund its current programme of COVID-19 response workshops. The grant of £12,000 is part of the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Funding scheme allocated by BHA t

A police investigation has been launched into the deaths of eight people in a Glasgow hotel used to house people who were homeless during lockdown.  Reports in the Scottish Sun revealed that four men and four women have died in the Alexander Thompson Hotel on Argyle Street s

Home secretary Priti Patel allegedly ordered civil servants to consider processing asylum seekers on remote islands more than 4,000 miles from Britain, according to reports. Ms Patel asked her officials to look into the viability of an Australian-style offshore asylum processing centre on Ascension