“Scandalous” levels of child poverty in North East Fife
Data released last month by the End Child Poverty Coalition revealed that 27 per cent of children in the St Andrews ward...
Category: Housing
Planning Committee rejects plans for Abbey Park
Plans for a new budget hotel and student accommodation (picture) in an upmarket estate built over the last few years on ...
St Andrews West expansion given outline planning consent
By a margin of 9:3, Fife Council’s North East Panning Committee voted to grant outline approval for the western ex...
Councillor ‘educates’ students on the limits of the council’s housing powers
In response to the editorial in this week's The Saint, Councillor Linda Holt has written to the editor, setting out what she sees as the realities of Fife Council's powers in relation to student accommodation:
Sir,
I read the outgoing editor’s column with some regret. Despite now having comp...
Universal Credit causing severe hardship in Fife
At a meeting organised by local Labour MP Lesley Laird, volunteer groups, including Kirkcaldy Foodbank and Citizens Advi...
Resident’s association welcomes HMO cap
Speaking on behalf of the Confederation of St Andrews Resident's Associations, David Middleton, chairman, commented:
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Breaking News! Councillors cap HMO numbers at current levels
At the Community and Housing Services committee meeting today (Thursday) councillors unanimously agreed an overprovision...
Students hope to circumvent ban on further HMOs in St Andrews
A survey of students renting private accommodation in the town by the University Students Association, with the Universi...
Soaring house prices in St Andrews pushing out locals
Green MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Mark Ruskell, has warned that rising house prices are pushing local people out of S...