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Grant Thornton has called for wide ranging reforms, including greater tax simplification, to boost growth in Scotland’s fragile property and construction sector. The business and financial adviser has welcomed recent action by the Scottish Government designed to boost the sector, including simplif

Units 3 and 4 at Kingshill Commercial Park Aberdeen based commercial property developer Knight Property Group is to develop more units at Kingshill Commercial Park on a speculative basis following strong demand for its phase 1 units.

The demolition of the last remaining Red Road flats in Glasgow that left two tower blocks partially standing had failed because they were built with steel and were “too tough” to be demolished, a report has found.

Alan Forsythe, training & development manager at SHARE, receiving C&G accreditation from Linda Orr, City & Guilds assessor The recent launch of SHARE’s new City & Guilds-accredited training programme strengthens the portfolio of courses designed to support staff in housing associat

The Greater Easterhouse area of Glasgow is set to be transformed with 6,000 new homes and new nurseries and schools as part of a 20-year revamp plan. A Glasgow City Council report yesterday outlined how the regeneration of Easterhouse and the surrounding area will also include transport infrastructu

Public infrastructure programmes undertaken by the Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) have delivered economic benefits worth billions of pounds, according to its annual report. Results of the 7th annual review into the public infrastructure investment body’s performance across six key areas of public in

Proposals to create a new £120 million cancer treatment centre and hospital in Aberdeen have been given preliminary approval. Aberdeen City Council planners backed plans to develop the Baird Family Hospital and the Anchor Centre at Foresterhill Health Campus.

Architecture practice HLM has completed the refurbishment of the University of Glasgow’s pilot teaching rooms in time for the 2016/17 academic year. The refurbishment follows the establishment last year of the University’s Inspiring Spaces Group to investigate how existing teaching spaces in var

https://videopress.com/v/qaOsUWDm Almost 600 people have had their say on how the Old and New Towns of Edinburgh World Heritage Site should be managed.

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US President-elect Donald Trump has won a battle over a flagpole on the grounds of one of his Scots golf courses. The billionaire tycoon erected the 80ft pole flying a Saltire outside his Menie Estate clubhouse at Trump International Golf Links last year. But Aberdeenshire Council ordered him to rem

Logistics and construction services company Malcolm Group has reported a 27 per cent increase in pre-tax profits following tighter cost management and “operational efficiencies”. The surge in profits to £8.39 million, from £6.60m in 2015, comes despite sales dipping almost three per cent to £

Scotland’s transition to the new Land & Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT) was “operationally successful” but it is “too early to draw any definitive conclusions” on its impact on the property market, MSPs on a Holyrood committee have said. A report by the Scottish Parliament’s finance

The University of St Andrews’ strategic aim to become the UK’s first carbon neutral university for energy usage took a major step forward today when the biomass plant at the Eden Campus at Guardbridge was officially commissioned. The £25 million plant on the east side of the former paper mill s

Scotland’s first national framework to offer demolition services to all local authorities has been launched. Worth £16 million a year, the new Scotland Excel framework will help councils deliver planned demolitions as part of regeneration and improvement work and also respond quickly to dangerous