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Scottish Borders Council is being asked to consider a report that provides an update on progress with its Care Village programme which covers developments in Tweedbank and Hawick.
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Zander Muego, director of Thomas & Adamson – part of Egis Group, shares his expert insights on the key trends likely to shape the construction sector in 2026. The construction sector has entered 2026 with a heightened sense of caution. Growth in the UK construction market is projected to r
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Demolition and site clearance works required to facilitate the first phase of the £250 million Charing Cross Gateway masterplan are now underway.
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Builders’ merchant Huws Gray has today launched its own timber merchanting operation at the site formerly operated by National Timber Group (NTG), under its Thornbridge brand, which entered administration in late 2025.
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Savills has issued its 2026 Cross Sector Outlook for the UK’s real estate markets, highlighting a year that begins with lingering uncertainty but growing signs of renewed confidence across the residential, commercial and rural sectors. While the UK backdrop remains complex - shaped by gl
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Balfour Beatty has appointed Kay Slade as managing director of its UK Regional Civils business. Effective from February, Kay will take over from Mark Arrandale, who has been serving as interim managing director of UK Regional Civils since October 2025, and will return to his position as finance dire
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Construction and civil engineering specialist McLaughlin & Harvey has seen the highest uptake yet from its YouMatter Health, Safety & Wellbeing Roadshow, with a record number of employees, subcontractors and clients taking part.
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Aberdeen registered its highest share of Scottish commercial property deals of the 2020s last year as buyer and seller expectations continued to align, according to new research from Knight Frank.
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SSEN Transmission has awarded global cable manufacturer NKT major contracts to manufacture and install the 525kV high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables for two key subsea cable links: one linking Spittal in Caithness and Peterhead in Aberdeenshire; and the other proposed to connect the Western I
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Adaptive Surveys has carried its recent positive momentum into 2026 with the appointment of Riess Nisbet as business development manager. Riess joins the team from NorDan UK Ltd, where he has spent the last five years driving their business development and sales strategy. He brings over 14 years of
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A major independent review of how Scotland’s key agencies engage with the planning system has been published by the Scottish Government, setting out 17 recommendations aimed at speeding up decisions, reducing complexity and strengthening collaboration across the sector.
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Surveyors expect a busy start to the year for the Scottish housing market after a quieter December, according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Residential Market Survey.
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A new £18.3 million train station in East Renfrewshire is a step closer to opening after engineers successfully installed its footbridge and lifts this week.
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Persimmon Homes West Scotland has appointed Ihsan Can as assistant land buyer, after he completed the company’s graduate scheme 10 months ahead of schedule. The 23-year-old from Livingston joined the five-star homebuilder in September 2024, beginning his career in Yorkshire as part of Persimmo
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Patrick Munro and Jacqueline Cook take a look at changes to the planning and compulsory purchase regimes in Scotland that are on the horizon in 2026, highlighting the key issues for developers, funders, decision-makers and interested parties below as Scottish planning reforms continue apace. There a
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