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The Scottish Government has published the Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) for the Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) regulation 2020 and draft guidance.

Through their bespoke Business Intelligence tools, the Network will today make available to its members the most comprehensive dataset on Charter Performance for 2023/24 available at the present time.

This publication presents data on Short Term Lets Licensing Statistics Scotland to 31 December 2023.

A few quick reminders about data collection arrangements for this year

We are now taking bookings for the annual Performance Analysis Visits. This year visits are available from September onwards and we encourage you to book quickly to get the date that suits you.

Housing Options Toolkit user figures have increase 10% since the launch of the last 3 modues at the end of March 2024.

Leza attends the University of Stirling to speak to housing students about the Housing Options Toolkit.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published an overview of planned activity for this 2024/25.

The CIH is inviting members and wider stakeholders to take part in an online survey to help inform their response to the consultation.

Registration is now open for the Scottish Land Commissions Conference to be held on the 13th of June at the MacDonald Resort in Aviemore.

ALACHO will be working with CIH Scotland to deliver two briefing sessions on the new Housing Bill.

The Scottish Government has launched a survey to hear people's views on how decision about capital spending affect them.

This framework document is agreed between the Scottish Housing Regulator and the Scottish Ministers.

The Scottish Government has published its planning guidance on Local Living and 20 minute neighrbourhoods.

The Scottish Law Commission has published a Discussion Paper on Tenement law: compulsory owners’ associations.

Consultation on the Housing (Scotland) Bill was launched 19th April with a closing date of 17th May. There are 15 questions related to the Bill.

Attendance Allowance is to be changed to Pension Age Disability Payment in Scotland. The pilot will start in October with Argyll & Bute, Highland, Aberdeen City, Orkney and Shetland.

The Scottish Government has published new guidance published on chief planning officers to assist local authorities meet their new requirements.

Updated guidance for private tenants and landlords is now available on the Scottish Government website.

The Scottish Housing Regulator has published an engagement plan for every social landlord and a summary of the outcomes of its annual regulatory risk assessment.

The next article in our series with Under One Roof provides advice and information on the repairing standard for landlords of tenement flats.

The Scottish Government published a Scottish Discretionary Housing Payment Guidance Manual on 27th March 2024.

The latest report on the financial heath of the RSL sector from the Scottish Housing Regulator highlights the level of economic volatility and uncertainty facing RSLs and their tenants.

On 10 January 2023 the Scottish Government announced plans to introduce new minimum environmental design standards for all new build housing to meet a Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard.