As part of the Scottish Water water & energy efficiency project I have installed a ‘smart water meter’ which has nothing to do with billing. What it does do though is tell me how many litres of water I used (male) 30.5 litres and 470 kWh of heat energy. According to the instructions I can …
I know you don’t want to know about my shower habits but… Read More »
Ladywood Health & Community Centre held a ‘Beginning of the Future’ event last night bringing together local residents, community groups and health & well being groups to develop and share a vision for the centre. There was a community pop up kitchen serving real healthy food and helping people to understand how much better and …
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The Better Deal is an initiative to support tenants in making social and financial progression during their 5 year Fixed Term Tenancy with Family Mosaic. During the fixed tenancy period they are offered help and assistance to make progress in gaining employment, learning new skills and furthering their education. Following the probationary year, tenants are …
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The Cala Sona development in Wishaw, completed in 2009, is a great development designed for people with limited mobility, general housing needs and for wheelchair users. I was visiting Cala Sona Court today checking up on the water & energy efficiency project which Blackwood HA are taking part in for some of their tenants. The Cala Sona …
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A review of the 8 local authority led Universal Credit pilots was published by the Local Government Authority (LGA). This early stage report highlights some of the challenges and outcomes from these pilots. These pilots really did test the role of a council and their ability to provide frontline support to UC claimants. Cllr Sir …
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We’re delighted to say that we’ve moved into our new offices in Edinburgh, supporting our further growth plans. We’ve got a great space, lots of light and not bad views of Edinburgh’s sky line. Main thing is, when visiting the postcode is still not recognised by the likes of Google maps or sat nav …
Home Group’s Mill O’ Mains development, phase 2, is now complete enabling tenants to move into and live in a more sustainable neighbourhood, a place that is desirable to live in Dundee. As part of this sustainability, Mill O’ Mains is part of the Water Efficiency Trial where we have recruited tenants and installed water …
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We are delighted to have become members of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). We feel that this is an important step in the development of the Digital Log Book and working to build further confidence in the objectives and security of the Digital Log Book. As the OIX works to build trust for online security …
Etive hosted a Universal Credit conference at our Birmingham office on the 22nd January with guest speakers from DWP, Birmingham City Council and Birmingham Social Housing Partnership. Ian Smith and Stephen Whitehorn from DWP emphasised the importance of landlords getting to know their tenants and to review processes and systems to be prepared to collect …
Scottish Water worked in partnership with the Scottish Government Building Standards Division (SGBSD,) to develop and introduce a mandatory minimum level of water efficiency into building standards for all new and refurbished housing in Scotland. The Water Industry Commission Scotland provided funding for Scottish Water to explore ways of ‘incentivising’ the development community to adopt …