Search:

Domestic gas and electricity supplier Ovo Energy has announced plans to cut 2,600 jobs and close its offices in Selkirk and Glasgow’s Waterloo Street. The company, which took over SSE’s retail division at the beginning of the year in a £500 million deal, had intended to reduce staf

Roddy Cormack, accredited specialist in construction law and legal director at Scottish law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, explores the role of designers in the return to operations for the construction industry in the new COVID normal. It’s important to remember the responsibiliti

Construction work on the Neart na Gaoithe (NnG) offshore wind farm is expected to resume shortly following a pause due to the outbreak of coronavirus. Matthias Haag, NnG project director, and David Webster, senior port manager, Port of Dundee

The chairman of Glasgow-based plant, tool and equipment hire firm GAP Group has retired after 14 years in the role.

A survey by the CITB has found that just 141 construction apprentices out of more than 10,800 contacted have been made redundant in Britain due to the coronavirus pandemic to date.

Work has restarted on building critical digital infrastructure in Inverness with NHS sites such as Raigmore Hospital being treated as a priority due to coronavirus. Construction activity initially began in autumn last year but was put on hold at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the approval

HFD Property Management has committed to helping its occupiers during the Covid-19 crisis, with a range of cashflow and lease flexibility measures. The property management arm of HFD Group is offering a package of assistance to tenants, which includes rental support for small and medium-sized enterp

East Lothian Council is pressing for an area of the county, which includes the planned exemplar new town at Blindwells and the former Cockenzie Power Station site, to be designated by Ministers as a National Development. The Scottish Government has asked planning authorities to suggest projects or s

A 1,000-year-old English flour mill has resumed commercial production for the first time in decades to meet a spike in demand in from the UK’s locked-down residents.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr & Mrs C Reid

Homes for Scotland chief executive Nicola Barclay appeared on BBC Scotland’s The Nine this week to outline why she thinks the home building industry is uniquely placed to begin a safe, phased return to work and complete the 6,000 homes currently awaiting finishing touches.

A community development company has completed the purchase of land to provide affordable homes on the island of Colonsay.

East Lothian Council has approved a raft of housing applications including detailed planning permission for the first of three affordable housing developments on the Windygoul site in Tranent.

Developer and investor Parabola has submitted a planning application to the City of Edinburgh Council for the residential-led phase of the development of the new zero carbon quarter of the city.

Scottish craft brewer and retailer Innis & Gunn has today submitted an application for planning permission for its major new brewery at Heriot-Watt University’s Research Park to the west of Edinburgh.