CHAP Group has been appointed to carry out several major projects after securing contracts worth in excess of £11.5 million.
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A new managing director has been appointed to Tayside Contracts.
Councillors have been recommended to reject a planning application to build a Holiday Inn hotel on the former Glasgow Garden Festival site at Pacific Quay.
Highlands & Islands Enterprise (HIE) has submitted plans for a new ‘modular village’ for business units in Inverness Campus.
Tenants have moved into new homes in Kilmarnock after the first phase of the New Farm Loch housing development was officially handed over to East Ayrshire Council.
Two major milestones have been reached at CHAP Group’s social housing project at Summerhill.
MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: JB&G Forsyth
Shonagh Morgan has been appointed to the role of sales manager for Cruden Homes (West). Shonagh brings over 20 years of experience from the housebuilding and property industry having previously worked for housebuilders Miller and Cala and property specialists Savills and Knight Frank.
Scottish company IndiNature, which makes ‘carbon negative’ insulation, is the latest firm to receive a share of £8 million funding for circular economy businesses administered by Zero Waste Scotland. IndiNature uses 100% natural materials to create eco-friendly insulation for homes
As a direct result of wellbeing issues presented to its 24/7 Construction Industry Helpline, the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity is to deliver £20,000 of free mental health and wellbeing training to the industry for the remainder of 2020.
MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Falkirk Council
Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed that land has been acquired and that construction for a development of 102 new homes at its Weldon Grange development on land to the west of Greendykes Road in Macmerry will start within the next few weeks.
A list of potential names for new streets in Clydebank’s Queens Quay development will go out for consultation.
The Scotland 5G Centre, working with infrastructure experts the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT), has announced a new collaboration with Connected Places Catapult, global legal business DWF, and IT and telecoms consultancy FarrPoint to accelerate the installation of 4G and 5G network
Breedon’s proposed purchase of certain Cemex assets will raise competition concerns, and result in higher prices for materials in the East of Scotland, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has warned as it set a five-day deadline for the concerns to be addressed.


