Full-service law firm Thorntons has been appointed to the legal panel of Sanctuary Group. The independently owned and operated Scottish law firm joins Sanctuary’s legal panel following a competitive process.
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Brodies LLP has been appointed as a strategic partner to provide legal services to Sanctuary. Following a competitive tender process, Brodies was appointed to Lots 7 and 8 of the housing provider's legal panel to provide advice across the full spectrum of its activities in Scotland including develop
Sanctuary Group has undertaken a review of nearly 4,000 homes in England following a wider order from the Housing Ombudsman. The order for an independent review of policy and practice was made after the Ombudsman made 2 severe maladministration findings for similar issues handling leaks, damp and mo
Pay strikes by Sanctuary workers in London are set to resume this month with the cancellation of more repair jobs from initial industrial action set to worsen.
Sanctuary Housing has been ordered to pay over £5,600 in compensation for leaving a resident and her child living in damp and mould for years and then failing to provide proper redress for the situation.
More than 30 of the UK's largest housing associations have written to ministers to call for more targeted support to protect millions of people expected to struggle with their energy bills this winter.
A new framework has been launched to provide retrofit and professional consultancy services to support Registered Social Landlords with the delivery of decarbonisation works.
Green Home Systems has been appointed to Greener Futures Partnership’s £1.5 billion Decarbonisation Delivery Framework to provide energy efficiency and retrofit upgrades to housing nationwide. The Greener Futures Partnership (GFP) is a consortium of five housing associations, made up of
West Scotland MSP Pam Gosal visited Persimmon’s Kelvin Gait development in Kirkintilloch and met with workers and apprentices to hear about the home builder’s investment in East Dunbartonshire and across West Scotland. Kelvin Gait features 84 energy-efficient new homes, ranging from one
A troubled housing association in England has revealed it is to close its in-house modular housebuilding factories as efforts to complete its delayed rescue merger with Sanctuary Group continue.
Residents have received the keys to the last of 131 high quality new homes at a major affordable housing project in Paisley. Sanctuary Scotland’s £19 million Skye Crescent development increases the town’s affordable housing options and transforms a nine-acre brownfield site.
Sanctuary Group and Swan Housing Association are in discussions to enter into a potential business combination. Any future agreement will be subject to detailed due diligence and the approval of boards of both organisations.
Merchant Homes has expanded its partnership with Sanctuary Housing with two contracts totalling £12 million to deliver more affordable homes throughout Scotland. The latest projects being launched between the housing provider and Merchant Homes have been agreed to allow the continuation of bui
Sanctuary Scotland has been granted planning permission for an affordable housing complex geared towards the over 55s in Glasgow.
Building work has started on the development of 150 new homes in Aberdeen.