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Plans to bring an £8 million development to the Finnieston area of Glasgow have been delayed as developers refresh proposals following feedback from the local community and the city’s planning officers.

Irvine Housing Association has revealed plans to build 300 new homes over the next three years. The charitable housing association – part of Riverside Group – announced in its new Corporate Plan that proposals to deliver major new social housing developments across Ayrshire.

The Scottish Government has increased its funding commitment for affordable homes by an additional £200 million. The announcement will see the interim funding available for the Affordable Housing Supply Programme in 2021-22, which helps to deliver homes for social rent, mid-market rent an

Clyde Gateway is to work with community-led environmental charity Urban Roots to transform 16 hectares of vacant and derelict land at Toryglen into a woodland retreat to be known as ‘Malls Mire’ which will be a haven for activities, learning and wellbeing.

Argyll and Bute Council has approved a new housing strategy that sets out plans to build over 900 affordable homes over the next five years.

Plans to purchase a 55-acre site in Lochinver for the provision of affordable housing is among a number of projects across Scotland have received £3.6 million of funding in the latest round of grants from the Scottish Land Fund. The money will allow groups from both urban and rural areas

A £42.6 million project to transform a former meat market into 252 flats for mid-market rent has received grant approval via Glasgow City Council’s affordable housing supply programme.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has paved the way for materials supplier Breedon to acquire around 100 sites from Cemex after accepting moves by the company to resolve competition concerns.

Orkney Builders (Contractors) Ltd is pressing forward with plans to create almost 100 new homes at Walliwall, on the outskirts of Kirkwall. The company has submitted planning applications for 97 properties at the site to Orkney Islands Council, with work hoped to begin early in the new year.

hub South West has held its final highly successful online event of 2020. Nearly 60 Zoom-based participants from companies in construction and related sectors based in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, heard a presentation from Skills Development Scotland’s Drew Reid on skills g

Output in the UK construction sector sustained its recovery during November with the rate of expansion accelerating from the previous month, led by fastest rise in new orders since October 2014.

A Scottish start-up has been awarded an additional Innovate UK grant to continue its pioneering development of an AI-driven bio-safety assessment tool for COVID-19 and other infectious diseases.

Stewart Milne Homes is actively looking to acquire land in Tayside after a new community in Dundee becomes one of the fastest-selling developments in the company’s history.

East Renfrewshire Council’s housebuilding project has continued in Barrhead with the progression of work at its Balgraystone Road development.

A socially distanced topping-out ceremony has been held to mark a key milestone in the construction of the new £28 million Castlebrae Community Campus in Edinburgh.