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East Renfrewshire Council has confirmed plans for more new build council homes across the area for 2023 and beyond. Following the completion of the local authority's largest ever new build development in Barrhead's Balgraystone Road last year, discussions are underway with developers for 105 afforda

The Highland Council has launched a Common Good consultation regarding a proposal to dispose of an area of 2145m² of undeveloped land in Inverness. The area of land is a triangular parcel of land lying between 17 Longman Drive and a neighbouring electricity substation site. It does not have veh

Members of the Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee will consider updated developer contribution rates for education and community facilities when they meet today. Approval of the report will allow the council to apply revised developer contribution rates for schools and com

Research published by the Association for Project Safety (APS), the national membership body representing around 3,500 professionals working in construction health and safety risk management, has revealed the UK’s built environment is at risk of becoming less safe as the industry fails to attr

Plans have been lodged to build 25 social houses on a patch of land in Tarbolton. The plans, which are part of a wider development, relate to a parcel of land at the Croft Street and the Westport area of the village. Behind the proposals are Hayhill Developments Ltd, of Mauchline, and the agents in

A couple have been ordered to demolish their £80,000 extension and handed £200,000 in legal bills after being found to have built just over two inches too close to their neighbours’ house. Shabaz Ashraf, 45, and his wife Shakira, 40, were told by a judge to tear apart the

The Dutch government has invested €200 million into quickly building more than 2,000 prefabricated, flexible homes but it can't find anywhere to place them. The temporary homes are ready, but agreements with municipalities and housing corporations are taking longer than expected, Financiee

Edison Group, the Ayrshire-headquartered construction property and investment business, has acquired Livingston-based Maplewood Joinery and Construction, an all-trades commercial and residential property operator. It is Edison Group’s intention to merge Maplewood with the Edinburgh Driveway Co

A historic home on the market in Massachusetts comes with its very own jail cell. Owners of 1841 former Town Hall on 23 Green St. in Kingston has been remodelled into a three-bedroom, three-bathroom beauty of a house, with lots of fun features.

The Highland Council has issued an update to its education stakeholders regarding the school estate capital investment programme. The council agreed in December 2022 that a complete review of the current capital investment programme was necessary, due to significant inflationary cost increases being

A former nightclub in Fife which was destroyed by a fire over the weekend is to be demolished due to safety concerns. A blaze broke out at the derelict building, which formerly housed Maxwell’s, on Wellesley Road, Methil at around 2.30pm on Sunday.

Nationwide Building Society has taken a step towards promoting green home improvements by offering 0% interest on Green Additional Borrowing products. Available from 1 June, these new borrowing options aim to incentivise up to 5,000 mortgage members to make energy-efficient modifications to their ho

Sutherland Members of the Highland Council have agreed to ring-fence £101.7k of remaining allocated Community Regeneration Funding towards a potential transport project. Sutherland chair, Councillor Richard Gale, said: “We are aware of the ongoing transport issues across Sutherland and t

Nine local projects aimed at improving communities are to share more than £1.38 million in new funding to help improve local facilities and services and to create more vibrant places across Aberdeenshire. This funding is coming from the third-year allocation of the Scottish Government Place Ba

Volunteering to inspire the next generation of civil engineers has seen Rebecca Innes named as the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) Scotland’s STEM Ambassador of the Year 2023. Ms Innes, who works for Jacobs in Inverness, has devised a number of innovative workshops for local primary and s