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  • Housing provider launches new online portal

    ONE of Scotland’s top housing providers has officially launched an online customer portal which is set to improve access to a range of services and encourage independent living. As part of an ongoing commitment to digital transformation, Bield Housing and Care worked with a number of tenants to test a new online customer portal, which…

  • Blackwood hands over 10 homes to help with housing crisis

    Independent living expert offers properties to ease Edinburgh’s emergency TEN SPECIALIST homes have been handed over to the City of Edinburgh Council to help it address its housing crisis. Blackwood Homes and Care has offered up the properties to assist the Council, which is in the midst of a profound housing shortage. As a specialist…

  • Blackwood hands over 10 homes to help with Edinburgh housing crisis

    TEN specialist homes have been handed over to the City of Edinburgh Council to help it address its housing crisis. Blackwood Homes and Care has offered up the properties to assist the Council, which is in the midst of a profound housing shortage. As a specialist in providing homes which enable those with disabilities or…

  • Scots charity’s Edinburgh office site set for housing redevelopment

    SIGHT Scotland and S Harrison Developments have submitted an application to redevelop the site of the charity’s former headquarters. The joint planning application hopes to develop the site, on Gillespie Crescent in Edinburgh, into student housing. The funds released by the sale of the site will enable Sight Scotland, a charity dedicated to meeting the…

  • Public buildings and social housing safeguarded by vital £20m framework

    PUBLIC SECTOR organisations across Scotland are being invited to attend a launch event that will share vital information on a major framework geared towards improving the safety of social housing and public buildings. Taking place at the Scottish Procurement Alliance’s (SPA) headquarters in Livingston on 23 November, those attending will gain vital information about the…

  • Green light for affording housing development at Newcraighall  

    A RESIDENTIAL development in Musselburgh has been granted by councillors on City of Edinburgh Council’s development management sub-committee.  The site, to be developed by housing specialists Cullross Ltd, will see 220 mixed-residential units brought to the area, located east of Glennie Road. Flats, colony flats, and townhouses are included in the plans, with 163 of…

  • Housing provider strengthens Board with new Chair

    Former Care Inspectorate Chair appointed to drive ambitious growth A LEADING Scottish housing provider has bolstered its Board with the appointment of a new Chair. Paul will play a pivotal role in guiding Bield’s new Corporate Strategy and Business Plan, steering the organisation towards its goal of meeting Scotland’s urgent housing needs, as well as…

  • 10,000 homeless people will be provided with housing by 2026

    SCOTLAND’S homeless people will be provided with 10,000 new homes by 2026, recent figures from Wheatley Group have revealed. The Scottish care and property-management group made a pledge to tackle homelessness in its 2021-2026 strategy. New figures show the group is on track to meet the figure in three years’ time, with 5773 people already…