Melville Housing Association

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Lovell has donated high-quality kitchen appliances to help Mayfield and Easthouses Development  Trust (MAEDT) expand their community cafe kitchen, enabling them to prepare a wider variety of meals for local residents. The donation includes two ovens, two integrated fridge freezers and an electr

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Lovell Partnerships has officially completed all affordable housing at its Oakwood Edge development in Mayfield, near Dalkeith. Housing minister Paul McLennan visited this week to mark the handover to Melville Housing Association of the 39 high-quality, affordable homes.

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One of Melville Housing Association’s longest-serving staff members, who has spent more than 15 years supporting tenants, resolving issues and providing help and advice, is calling time on her stellar housing career.  Linda Hay, a housing officer with more than 27 years experience in the

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Nine deserving charities, including food banks, pantries, and youth development programmes, are celebrating this Christmas thanks to a series of festive donations, totalling over £7,000, by Melville Housing Association.

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Lovell recently welcomed schoolchildren from Lawfield Primary School to Oakwood Edge in Mayfield to learn about the importance of safety on construction sites ahead of the school holidays. Oakwood Edge is a mixed-tenure development with 156 new energy-efficient homes for the area. A total of 39

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A pillar of the community who has played an immense but understated role in the life of local people has called time on one part of her stellar volunteering career after 20 years of service to social housing in Midlothian. Barbara Shearer, who lives in Mayfield on the outskirts of Dalkeith, has sat

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The Scottish Federation of Housing Associations (SFHA) marked its 49th Annual General Meeting yesterday which saw Grampian's Craig Stirrat and Melville's Caron Quinn elected to its board. Against the backdrop of Scottish Housing Day, the AGM had a focus on a theme that resonates with us al

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A green-fingered tenant from Woodburn, near Dalkeith, has been rewarded for her fantastic achievement in creating a magical outdoor space with this year’s ‘Baxter Keiller Award’ for outstanding Melville Housing Association garden.

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Lovell Partnerships has donated its building expertise to support two charities that serve Midlothian communities while building 39 new homes for Melville Housing Association near Dalkeith. The first of these new social rented homes are now being handed over to Melville at the Oakwood Edge developme

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Four hundred struggling households from across the Lothians, Edinburgh and Lanarkshire are £660,000 better off thanks to the hard work of a life-saving service. The housing support service, provided by Dalkeith-based Melville Housing Association, helped tenants claim grants and benefits w

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Eleven hardy volunteers have donated 44 hours of their valuable time to a fantastic charity that serves disadvantaged communities in a corner of Midlothian. The team, made up of staff from Melville Housing Association, housebuilder Lovell Partnerships and property and construction consultants Hardie

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