Oak Tree Housing Association has announced that it will cease development at Strone Farm in Greenock following spiralling construction costs. Originally designed to deliver 15 affordable homes, the project has encountered significant challenges since construction began in 2019. These include the liq
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Oak Tree Housing Association has appointed Sean Connor as its new chief executive officer. He will be joining the Association in October.
A consortium of eight housing associations operating across Inverclyde, East Renfrewshire and Renfrewshire has appointed an initial 40 local contractors to its new dynamic purchasing system (DPS) for responsive repairs and voids, developed in partnership with PfH Scotland.
A number of housing associations are among the organisations to have been awarded a share of funding to provide financial advice where people need it.
Funding will be made available to enable housing associations to buy back factored properties from eligible homeowners if they wish to become tenants, the Scottish Government has confirmed. Local housing associations can utilise funding available through the Scottish Government’s Affordable Ho
An international artist with a huge social media following has created a striking new mural to promote breastfeeding in Inverclyde.
The Inverclyde Common Housing Register (ICHR), a partnership between Cloch, Oak Tree, Larkfield, Link and Sanctuary Scotland Housing Association, has now let 1,000 properties in Inverclyde through their digital choice based lettings website. The ICHR was established in 2012 and moved to a full
A successful collaboration between eight housing associations is helping to deliver value for money for tenants and provide a boost for communities.
Cloch Housing Association has received confirmation that its new rules were registered by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) on April 1 to officially conclude the separation process from Oak Tree Housing Association. Since the SGM in December 2020, which followed a 95.5% favourable ballot to sepa
An overwhelming 95.5% of Cloch tenants who took part in a ballot have voted to to separate from Oak Tree Housing Association and restore its status as an independent housing association. After a summer long consultation, heavily restricted by the pandemic and subsequent lockdown, Cloch&rsq
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.
Landlords on the Inverclyde Common Housing Register (ICHR) can start to advertise their available properties again as the coronavirus lockdown measures have been eased in Scotland. Due to the pandemic, the ICHR landlords Cloch, Oak Tree, Larkfield, Link and Sanctuary have been unable to carry
Cloch Housing Association is to hold a ballot of its tenants to gain support with its bid to separate from parent organisation Oak Tree Housing Association.
Oak Tree Housing Association has been awarded £140,000 from the Scottish Government’s Supporting Communities Fund, which will benefit 16 grassroots and community-controlled organisations that have been busy coordinating vital responses to the coronavirus crisis across Inverclyde. As the
The first phase of Oak Tree Housing Association’s ambitious plan to deliver 200 affordable homes across Greenock has been completed with the opening of Auchmead Road.