The Scottish Housing News Podcast

Jennifer Higgins, the managing director of Connect Modular, part of the Wee House Group, and Andy Kennedy, the project manager for the £13 million Hillcrest development at Dundee’s Victoria Dock, join Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay to talk all things modular construction. Building homes in factories and transporting them to the site has numerous benefits, but the method is not without its challeng...

Ann Leslie of Lar Housing Trust and Matthew Busher of Kingdom Group join Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay to talk all things mid-market rent (MMR). Find out the typical tenant demographics, funding structure and future expansion plans of both organisations who approach MMR from slightly different angles. Ann Leslie also expands on her Appreciation of Rani Dhir, who sadly passed away this year. https...

Jimmy Black and Kieran Findlay are joined by Geraldine Begg, technology enabled care in housing lead at the Scottish Federation of Housing Associations and Heather Dorling, the team manager of Loreburn Housing Association’s Later Living Service, to hear about how Loreburn is using technology to provide a range of services to residents in its enhanced housing developments, the infinite potential av...

Former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black is joined by former Link Group chief executive Craig Sanderson and TPAS Scotland chief executive Lesley Baird as they cast their minds back to a time when modern housing associations were new and tenants struggled to be heard. Jimmy Black has written a blog to accompany the episode, here: https://www.scottishhousingnews.com/...

Former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black and Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay speak with Dundee City Council’s neighbourhood services convenor Cllr Anne Rendall who reflects on £4.4 million of faulty roofs, keeping rents down, and building new houses in Dundee. The attention then turns to the private rented sector with Professor Douglas Robertson, who ha...

Former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black and Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay speak with Link Group’s finance director Nick Pollard about Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG), its role in Link’s £80 million funding deal from Scottish Widows and why investors are increasingly seeking to back climate-friendly projects. Jimmy Black has written a blog...

Former Dundee housing convener and housing justice campaigner Jimmy Black and Scottish Housing News editor Kieran Findlay co-host the first episode of The Scottish Housing News Podcast. Coinciding with the launch of our COP26 feature showcasing the efforts of Scotland’s dynamic affordable housing sector, this episode includes a scene-setting round table discussion featuring David Bookbinder , dire...