News & blog

Find out more about what we are up to now.

Housing minister hears how families are having lives transformed by new accessible homes

Scottish Housing Minister, Paul McLennan MSP, visited Tarryholme, Irvine to celebrate the completion of the second phase of Riverside Scotland’s latest development. The 77 new homes were supported by £6 million Scottish Government grant funding and have been built to Housing for Varying Needs Standards, to ensure that they remain flexible and adaptable to meet

Read more

Supporting our customers to fly high with Barclays Digital Wings

Riverside is excited to announce a new partnership with The Barclays Digital Eagles to provide an innovative online platform to help our customers improve their digital skills. The Barclays Digital Wings portal has over 75 courses available, covering an array of topics that are designed to give people practical digital skills in bite sized chunks.

Read more

Annual Tenancy Engagement Exercise

At Riverside Scotland, we care about our tenants and their welfare. We proactively want to ensure that you can manage your tenancy and that we are able to support you as best we can, especially during these difficult times. As part of our approach to achieving this, we are implementing an Annual Tenancy Engagement exercise.

Read more

Entries now open for Harbourside in Bloom!

Have you been busy in your garden this spring? Entries are now open for our Harbourside in Bloom competition! Harbourside in Bloom is our annual gardening competition aimed at bringing the community together to make Harbourside a brighter and greener place to live. We are looking for front gardens that are tidy, bright and colourful.

Read more

Riverside Scotland has partnered with home builder Persimmon to deliver new affordable homes in Monkton

Fifty high-quality, affordable new homes will help local people in housing need, following the completion of a project with Persimmon West Scotland. The much-needed affordable homes have been built on Persimmon’s Fairfields development in Monkton and include a variety of two and three bedroom properties. Heather Anderson, Head of Service Delivery at Riverside Scotland  was

Read more

Join our new Scrutiny Group

We are in the process of setting up a new scrutiny group working in partnership with the Tenants information Service (TIS) Customer-led scrutiny of housing services enables landlords and their tenants to work in partnership, to identify where services and investment are well placed, and where value for money is being delivered. More importantly it

Read more

ECO boost: New £1.5m funding pot will give our Dumfries residents warmer and greener homes and lower energy bills

Almost 300 households in Dumfries will benefit from lower energy bills after Riverside Scotland secured £1.5m of funding to make their homes more energy efficient. The seven-figure investment will see 294 homes, which were built almost a century ago, benefit from significant energy efficiency upgrades, including installation of internal wall insulation (IWI), replacement cavity wall

Read more

SEARCH Consultation for East Ayrshire tenants and applicants

A consultation by the Single East Ayrshire Register for Community Housing (SEARCH) partners – namely Riverside Scotland, Atrium Homes, Cunninghame Housing Association, East Ayrshire Council and Shire Housing Association, on proposed changes to the Common Allocation Policy will be launching soon. The proposed changes There are six proposed changes: Extenuating Circumstances points awards will be reviewed

Read more

Online Scam Advice from Police Scotland

          Recognising online scams Cyber criminals may contact you via email, text, phone call or via social media. They will often pretend to be someone (or an organisation) you trust. It used to be easier to spot scams. They might contain bad spelling or grammar, come from an unusual email address,

Read more