Winners announced: Chartered Institute of Housing (Scotland) awards
A SERVICE that provides accommodation for people at risk of homelessness, with landlords given the incentive of guaranteed rent (whether or not tenants pay their rents or properties are being used), has been named a winner at an awards ceremony recognising “the creativity, passion and innovation of housing organisations and individuals across the sector”.
The C~urb PSL scheme – with rents guaranteed by The City of Edinburgh Council – was named a winner in the ‘Excellence in the private rented sector’ category of the Chartered Institute of Housing (Scotland) Awards, held in Glasgow last night.
Says a CiH (Scotland) document (here) about all the shortlisted entries – there were over 120 nominations across 17 categories – the C~urb PSL scheme provides over 1,750 homes, “improving the lives of homeless people, including refugees,” in Edinburgh.
The full list of winners reads:
Excellence in customer service
Customer experience project – West Lothian Council
Excellence in housing innovation
Revive Scotland – Wheatley Group in partnership with Homefinder UK
Working in partnership
Peoplehood – Blackwood Group in partnership with Innovate UK and a consortium of nine industry partners
Excellence in development for affordable housing
Claish Farm, Callendar – Lovell Partnerships in partnership with Rural Stirling Housing Association
Excellence in tenant scrutiny
Working in partnership – Link Housing Association in partnership with Link Tenant Scrutiny Panel
Excellence in delivering homelessness services
Home First – Mature Rapid Rehousing – Perth & Kinross Council
Excellence in the private rented sector
Excellence in Edinburgh – C~urb PSL
Excellence in regeneration and sustainability
Taighean a’ Chaiseil, Isle of Skye – Staffin Community Trust in partnership with Communities Housing Trust and Lochalsh & Skye Housing Association
Housing provider of the year
Kingdom Housing Association
Excellence in health and wellbeing
Blantyre Care: Living with Innovation and Fully, Every Day – South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership in partnership with South Lanarkshire Housing and Technical Resources and Cruden Builders
Excellence in communications
Communicating Wheatley Group to a global audience – Wheatley Group
Net zero in housing
Blackstoun Oval Retrofit Project – Renfrewshire Council
Apprentice of the year
Fern Barclay – Kingdom Housing Association
Outstanding contribution to housing
Laurie Naumann – Kingdom Housing Association
Dave Alexander – Eildon Housing Association
Excellence in leadership
Frank Sweeney – Cunninghame Housing Association
Housing team of the year
Community Housing Team (West) – Loreburn Housing Association
Young achiever in housing
Eilidh MacDonald – Kingdom Housing Association
Pictured: HQ of the Link Group, administrators of the C~urb PSL scheme, Picture credit: Place Design Scotland