Glasgow City Council

Shelter Scotland has revealed its intention to drop legal action taken against Glasgow City Council over homelessness after the announcement of a historic intervention by the Scottish Housing Regulator (SHR). The housing and homelessness charity began its bid for a judicial review into the local aut

Homelessness charity Simon Community Scotland has launched a powerful new film to raise awareness of its Nightstop project.

A Glasgow centre for young homeless people is to close later this month after a three-month reprieve. The James Shields Centre in Pollokshaws is due to close its doors on January 23rd after it was originally scheduled to close last October.

Councillors have approved plans by Swan Group for 100 new affordable homes in Royston, in the north of Glasgow. The development was given the go-ahead by Glasgow City Council in October 2019, after Swan Group agreed to purchase the site, subject to planning approval.

More new homes for Glasgow’s East End are under way as Thenue Housing’s 40th anniversary year draws to a close. (from left) Charles Turner, Allan Callaghan and Eleanor Derbyshire  

The Scottish Housing Regulator is to investigate Glasgow City Council’s service for people who are homeless after finding that a “significant number of people” are still failing to receive temporary and emergency accommodation when required.

A strategy to bring between 200-250 empty homes back into use annually over three years in Glasgow has been approved by councillors.

Glasgow City Council has approved a new document which shows the way to doubling the city centre’s population to 40,000 over the next 15 years.

Partick Housing Association has applied to convert a former community facility into flats. Under the plans, Merkin House in Purdon Street would be transformed into 14 one and two-bedroom apartments.

Glasgow City Council should be “bold” and do more to aid the plight of the asylum seekers facing lock-change evictions by Serco, according to Govan Law Centre solicitor advocate Mike Dailly. Mr Dailly brought the case against the Home Office contractor and the Home Secretary as well

A proposed partnership between Glasgow City Council and Govan Housing Association will aim to tackle the condition of pre-1919 housing in the Ibrox and Cessnock areas of the city. Glasgow has 76,000 pre-1919 homes - around 23% of the city's housing stock - and 70,000 of these are tenement flats

Demolition work has begun on a tenement building in Glasgow's Pollokshields area after it partially collapsed in a fire. The fire on Albert Street was believed to have started in Strawberry & Spice Garden grocery below the flats around 11.30pm on Sunday.

Shettleston Housing Association’s church conversion and Passivhaus development has been shortlisted in two categories in the national Inside Housing Awards. Old Carntyne Church, in the east end of Glasgow, was transformed from a semi-derelict building into one of Scotland’s most energy-e

Between 200-250 empty homes back into use annually over three years if Glasgow councillors approve the next stages of a new strategy.

A draft strategy which proposes how Glasgow’s city centre population will double in size to 40,000 over the next 15 years is to be open for public consultation.