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→ OpposingDemolition – reports from Dundee

→ Opposing Stock Transfer – the view from Stirling

→ Opposing Stock Transfer – what couldn\’t be seen in Dundee

→ Making Council Housing Work

→ Guide to the Communities Scotland web site

→ The Housing Act (Scotland) 2001 and how to find legislation

→ Tenant Management report

Opposing Demolition – reports from Dundee

After a Dundee Council decision to demolish their houses, tenants and activists surveyed the tenants and found strong opposition to the demolitions, something very different from what had been reported to the Council.

More Time for Butterburn and Bucklemaker Courts

Views From the Menzies Hill Multies

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Opposing Stock Transfer – the view from Stirling

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Stirling Against Stock Transfer (SAST) produced an excellent flyer as part of its campaign. You can get a copy here.

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Opposing Stock Transfer – what couldn\’t be seen in Dundee

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Dundee Council resisted releasing a consultant\’s study of the relative costs of retention versus stock transfer. The story is reported in this paper.

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000000;\”>The Report They Didn\’t Want Us To See

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Making Council Housing Work

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style=\”color: #000000;\”>Guide to the Communities Scotland
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Communities Scotland\’s web site has a vast store of information, some of which is even useful but can be very difficult to find. The categories below suggest some useful possibilities, concentrating on tenant involvement. If you have a favourite resource on this web site please let us know about it.

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Tenant Particpation Development Team

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This is a subdivision of the Community Regenaration section of Communities Scotland and is advised by the Tenant Participation Advisory Group to which STO has for years sent a representative. It is also responsible for the National Tenant Engagement Network about which you can find information including minutes of regional meetings here

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Communities Scotland publishes guidance on tenant participation. Their main reference work can be downloaded from their web site through the link below.

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Guide to successful tenant participation

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section of Communities Scotland carries out inspections of housing associations and local authority
landlord operations.\r\n It\’s main page in the Communities Scotland website can currently be found here\r\n→ link to Regulation and Inspection main page.\r\n

Tenants have a role in Regulation and Inspection principally through the Tenant Regulation Advisory Group (TRAG) and that group\’s representation on two other advisory groups. You can read about this structure and the interrelationship of these groups and find more information through this link

\r\n→ link to Regulation and Inspection\’s Participation Structure.\r\n

Regulation and Inspection also has a page linking to their publications including inspection reports for the various housing associations and local authority landlords as well as their Performance Standards and other publications including various bits of guidance for landlords.

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000000;\”>The Housing Act (Scotland) 2001 and how to find

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The Housing (Scotland) Act of 2001 is the basis for the functioning of much of the housing system in Scotland. Like all UK legislation since 1988 it is available in its original form via the internet through what used to be called HMSO and is now the Office of Public Sector Information. The information is available in two forms: links to internet pages and pdf files that you can download. The main page for legislation is

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<span style=\”color:

000000;\”>which includes UK, Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland and in the case of Scottish

Legislation there are pages for both Acts and Statutory Instruments. You will need to know the year
of the legislation and may have quite a search if you don\’t know its title.\r\
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Housing (Scotland) Act 2001

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000000;\”> ■ <a href=\”http://www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/

documents/webpages/cs_011384.pdf\”><span style=\”color:

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Legislation

is accompanied by an Explanatory Note that you may find useful. These are available in the same
two forms.\r\n

Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 Explanatory Note

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href=\”http://www.opsi.gov.uk/legislation/scotland/en2001/aspen_20010010_en.pdf\”>PDF\r\n\r\n

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Tenant Management report

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There is not a lot of information about Tenant Management Cooperatives in Scotland but a report from England has some interesting bits. You can download this from the web site of the National Federation of Tenant Management Organisations through the link below.

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<span style=\”color:

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England\r\n

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