We have a fantastic and dedicated Board of Directors – learn more about them in this new blog series! Prior to her retirement last year, Norma was a Team Leader in Planning and Policy for Housing and Communities in Perth and Kinross Council. Over the past thirty years, she has worked mainly in strategic planning incontinue reading
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Meet The Board – Alastair Cameron
We have a fantastic and dedicated Board of Directors – learn more about them in this new blog series! Alastair is the former Chief Executive of Scottish Churches Housing Action, which mobilises the churches in working towards a Scotland free of homelessness. He has been a board member of Rural Housing Scotland from its inception incontinue reading
Meet The Board – David Stewart
We have a fantastic and dedicated Board of Directors – learn more about them in this new blog series! David joined the Scottish Land Commission in April 2019 and his remit includes work on land assembly, placemaking, land value capture and affordable rural housing. He joined the commission from the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations where hecontinue reading
Rural Housing Scotland annual conference – book now!
Our annual conference, which was moved online for the past two years due to Covid, will take place in-person at Birnam Arts Centre on the 24th of February 2023. There are two ticket types: day or residential. A residential ticket includes dinner, bed & breakfast at the Dunkeld House Hotel for delegates wishing to stay on the evening of Thursday 23rd February. Please notecontinue reading
European Rural Parliament 2022
In this blog, our Communications Assistant, Kirsten, tells us about her experience when she attended the European Rural Parliament in Poland last month. In September, I was delighted to have the opportunity to join the Scottish delegation attending the 5th European Rural Parliament (ERP) in Kielce, Poland – a gathering of 400 rural people, includingcontinue reading
Planning approved for community-led housing development in Braemar
We are delighted that planning permission has been secured for 15 new affordable homes in Braemar. The community-led housing development, which has received significant financial support from Cairngorms National Park Authority, The Scottish Land Fund and charity loan funder CAF Venturesome, was designed following extensive consultation with Braemar community. Delivery of the much-needed homes, whichcontinue reading
Tomduie Clachan – A pioneering project to help tackle the rural housing crisis and climate emergency
In anticipation of the upcoming United Nations COP-26 Climate Change Conference being held in Glasgow, a pioneering new project has been announced in Comrie, Perthshire. Tomduie Clachan is a proposed zero-carbon community housing project at Comrie Croft, one of Scotland’s leading ecotourism destinations. Tomduie Clachan is designed as the flagship in plans for Comrie Croft’scontinue reading
Scottish Government home buyer schemes not fit for purpose in remote rural and island Scotland
National home ownership support schemes often fail to meet their full potential in rural and island areas as they do not recognise that the circumstances surrounding housing are different to those in urban areas. Open Market Shared Equity (OMSE) is one such scheme. It helps eligible buyers, on low to moderate incomes, buy a homecontinue reading
Smart Clachan initiative offers sustainable housing solution for Uist
Rural Housing Scotland will lead the development of an ambitious new initiative to tackle the interlinked issues of depopulation, demographic change and the climate crisis in Uist. In partnership with community landowner Stòras Uibhist and with funding from Emsée Fairbairn Foundation, Rural Housing Scotland plan to develop Smart Clachan which will incorporate cooperative community-led housing,continue reading
Scottish Housing Day (Part 2) – The realities of trying to improve home energy efficiency in our remote rural and island communities
This year, Scottish Housing Day is focused on the role of housing in the climate emergency. We have released two blogs on this theme. You can read our first Scottish Housing Day blog here. Our homes are responsible for 13% of Scotland’s emissions which means, in order to meet our ambitious net-zero targets, we needcontinue reading