Langstane Housing Association

Applicants for council and housing association properties in Aberdeenshire are being advised of a temporary pause to online applications as a new system prepares for launch. Currently, applications for accommodation are made via the Apply4Homes website, which handles applications for properties mana

Langstane Housing Association has decided to make a £350 donation to its charity of choice AberNecessities in lieu of sending traditional Christmas cards. Recently the senior management team at the association considered a request from AberNecessities to provide sponsorship for Christmas Eve b

Langstane Housing Association has outlined how it will make use of funding it has received through the Scottish Government’s Homelessness Prevention Fund. Administered by the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA), the £1.5 million fund to support projects that contribut

Eleven housing association projects have received funding from the Scottish Government’s £1.5 million Homelessness Prevention Fund to support projects that contribute to reducing child poverty and preventing homelessness. 

Langstane Housing Association has become an accredited Living Wage employer. Their Living Wage commitment will see everyone working at Langstane Housing Association receive a minimum hourly wage of £9.30 This rate is higher than the statutory minimum for over 25s of £8.72 per hour introd

Langstane Housing Association has progressed a "substantial programme of improvement" to ensure compliance with regulatory standards, a new engagement plan has revealed. The Scottish Housing Regulator has been engaging with Langstane over the last two years as it addressed weaknesses in its app

A report has been launched into a project in which four local authorities and seven housing associations, funded by the North and Islands Homelessness and Housing Options Hub and managed by Scotland’s Housing Network, explored enhanced practices in relation to section 11 notices.

Langstane Housing Association has received £1,000 from the Station House Media Unit (SHMU) which supports grassroots groups in Aberdeen to deliver new or extend existing activity in the community. A total of £25,000 has been provided to SHMU to aid communities through funding from the Sc

Staff at Langstane Housing Association were given the opportunity to nominate a charity to receive Langstane’s Christmas donation in lieu of sending traditional cards. The successful charity this year is AberNecessities.

Langstane Housing Association is now part of the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) ‘Social Housing Digital Champions Network’. Joining the ‘North Cohort’, Langstane now sits alongside Aberdeenshire Council, Osprey Housing, Castlehill HA, Lochaber HA, Or

The friendly bench project is an initiative is supported by ACVO in partnership with Aberdeen City Council which invites third sector organisations to claim and design a bench in the city to raise awareness of the support and services that they provide.

Dundee building services company McGill has unveiled plans to open an Aberdeen depot and made an appointment to its board of directors. McGill won deals for smoke detector contracts with Aberdeen-based Langstane and Castlehill housing associations worth £1.6m and also has a contract to re

Tenants in Aberdeen and Stirling will be among the first in the country to benefit from next-generation digital connectivity thanks to a partnership between a group of social housing providers and full fibre infrastructure provider CityFibre.

A homelessness prevention project is under way to investigate ways to improve the performance of section 11 notices in the north and islands of Scotland. Whenever a landlord raises proceedings to end a tenancy, by law they must serve to the relevant local authority a section 11 notice, to allow the

A group of Grampian Housing Association tenants have launched the Association’s first tenant-led scrutiny report. The volunteers investigated the tenancy sustainment services, SMART (money advice) and ASSIST (housing support) which are provided to tenants of Grampian, Castlehill and Langstane