Angus Housing Association

Nicola McFarlane with the new accreditation plaque On the week which saw the new Living Wage rate increased to £8.75 per hour, Angus Housing Association was formally accredited as a Living Wage employer.

Elizabeth Whitson (rear) making the presentation to Sheena Welsh Elizabeth Whitson has been elected as the new chairman of Angus Housing Association and her first act in her new capacity was to make a presentation to outgoing chairman Sheena Welsh, who has stepped down after five years in the role.

Angus Housing Association has been given the green light to progress the delivery of 42 new homes on the site of a former Dundee primary school. An investment of up to £5 million will see a mix of 30 houses and cottage flats for the affordable rental sector, managed by Angus Housing Association, as

Bruce Forbes A housing association director has called on the Scottish Government to review the way in which it subsidises councils who want to build new homes following reports that one local authority is set to spend £1 million to build just four houses.

At the end of financial year 2016/17, Angus Housing Association has reported record low rent arrears of 1.01%. The performance bucks the trend for most Scottish landlords as rent arrears have generally been on the increase since Universal Credit (UC) and other welfare reforms have been introduced.

Bruce Forbes, director, Angus Housing Association and Jason MacGilp, chief executive, Cairn Housing Association, shaking hands on site to seal the development partnership at Muirlands Park, Arbroath Two housing associations have announced their intention to work in partnership to contribute to the d

Bruce Forbes Angus Housing Association director, Bruce Forbes, has likened some properties in Dundee to slums and claimed many homes will not meet new Scottish Government standards.

Bruce Forbes Angus Housing Association director, Bruce Forbes, has accused a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesperson of “peddling lies and deliberately misleading the public” to justify the Westminster government’s “brutal” cuts to welfare.

Bruce Forbes The director of Angus Housing Association in Dundee has warned that changes to welfare payments could plunge some of the city’s poorest people further into poverty.

Some of the D J Laing team at the Laing House headquarters in Carnoustie Architects and Angus Housing Association have paid tribute to D J Laing Homes as the firm celebrated 30 years of building new homes in Dundee and Angus.

Cruden Homes and Angus Housing Association have announced plans to invest almost £5 million to continue the successful regeneration of the Mid Craigie estate in Dundee. The investment will see 42 new homes built on the site of the former Mid Craigie Primary School, known locally as the “Rainbow�

(from left) Site manager Bill Anderson, David Zwirlein and John Alexander. Photo Credit: Evening Telegraph Funds available for new build council and housing association houses in Dundee are set to go up by over £4 million in the next financial year, the city council has confirmed.

Raymond Young A new book has been launched which explores how rural housing is a ‘forgotten problem’ in Scotland’s housing history and recounts how housing associations responded to the issue.

(from left) Councillor Willie Sawers, Shona Robison MSP and Bruce Forbes Dundee East MSP Shona Robison and local councillor Willie Sawers visited a new £4 million housing development being built in the Whitfield area of Dundee which forms part of both their constituencies.

Angus Housing Association has set a record low for its rent arrears, with only 1.82 per cent of current tenants' rent uncollected as at 31 March 2015. Hailed as a "magnificent achievement", it is a slight improvement on its 2013/14 figure of 1.92 per cent and well inside the Association's own 2 per