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Jim Mather Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has announced that current chair Jim Mather is stepping down from the organisation with effect from its Annual General Meeting on May 12.

An increase in civil engineering and residential building activity has fuelled the biggest monthly output rise of the year so far in the UK construction sector, new figures have shown. The latest Markit/CIPS UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index rose to 53.1 in April from 52.2 in March.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Ability Hotels (Edinburgh) Limited

John Morgan Construction group Morgan Sindall is set to outperform expectations for 2017 after reporting a strong start to the year driven by record fit-out orders.

Indigo Hotel in Dundee Edinburgh-headquartered construction services company Sharkey is on track for another strong performance in 2017 having already secured over £50 million of new project activity since the beginning of the year.

The £20 million transformation of Aberdeen's Union Terrace Gardens has moved another step closer with the submission of final designs for the project. Plans by LDA Design, which was appointed to lead the design of the development back in September, feature a walkway from Union Street, a c

Plans have been submitted which could see the creation of about 200 new houses in Peebles, 50 of which would be affordable. Builders Taylor Wimpey and property developer and investor AWG Property want to build the properties on land east of Kittlegairy View in the Borders town.

By Conor Leyden, managing director of The LK Group Investing in new homes to help solve the housing crisis while dealing with government budget cuts is a balancing act that all Scottish local authorities are facing.

(from left) Ross McCabe, Ewan O’Donnell, Lynne Dunn, (Kingdom’s Fife Works co-ordinator), Scott Kirkpatrick, (Kingdom acting development director), Bill Banks, (Kingdom Group chief executive), Dougie Herd, (Campion Homes construction director), John Hutton, (Campion site agent) Kingdom Housing A

(from left) Andrew Mickel (Mactaggart and Mickel), Kevin Stewart MSP and Bruce Mickel (Mactaggart and Mickel) Kevin Stewart MSP, minister for local government and housing, has visited the award-winning Polnoon neighbourhood in the village of Eaglesham in East Renfrewshire to see how the design of th

An architecture student at Robert Gordon University has been awarded a commendation at the prestigious American Institute of Architects UK Excellence in Design Awards 2017. Lucy Fisher, a fourth year student at the Scott Sutherland School of Architecture and Built Environment, designed the Mirrored

Galt add longest reach cranes to fleet Dumbarton-based haulier Galt Transport has acquired four new Scania R-series trucks, two of which feature the firm’s longest reaching lorry mounted cranes.

London estate agents have begun to offer free cars worth £18,000, stamp duty subsidies of £150,000, plus free iPads and Sonos sound systems to kickstart sales in the capital’s increasingly moribund property market, The Guardian has reported. The once super-hot central London market has turned in

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Aberdeen City Council, Marischal College Broad Street Aberdeen Scotland

‘World Animal Map’ by Danny Campbell is a conceptual artwork of a world map collage with familiar and little-known animals located in their geographical locations, from African okapi to the aye-aye, native to Madagascar Skypark's gallery walls will offer views of the world’s countries by the d