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A £15.4 million project to build a new purpose-built education campus in Balloch has been submitted for planning. Holmes Miller, in tandem with Morgan Sindall and West Dunbartonshire Council, are behind plans for the Balloch Shared Campus, a new school on the site of the existing St Kessog’s Prim
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A cowboy builder from Perthshire has been jailed after a court heard how he had pocketed £400,000 in a huge bogus repairs scam spanning four years. Patrick Young conned a string of homeowners including a 79 year-old man who was ripped off to the tune of £172,000 and an 84-year-old woman who handed
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A planning application has been lodged by Sheratan Ltd to build housing, a new primary school and a long talked about park for Edinburgh. The area, covering c. 170 acres at the Edmonstone Estate in Little France, will be masterplanned to maximise the benefits to the South East of the City.
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Queen's Cross Housing Association is to spend £13 million to carry out major internal and external improvements to 314 of its properties. Housebuilding specialist, Keepmoat, will carry out work at the Cedar Court mutli-storey flats, which will include insulated external cladding, new energy efficie
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Architects Foster + Partners New York’s design for a modular habitat on Mars has been shortlisted amongst 30 finalists for NASA-organised 3D Printed Habitat Challenge.
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Peveril Securities is on the verge of submitting plans for a mixed use scheme at Edinburgh’s Kings Stables Road.
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A restoration project worth more than £22,000 has been completed to transform the iconic Merchants House in Glasgow back to its former glory in order to welcome more visitors through its doors. Glasgow construction firm City Building has been highly-praised for its work to transform an historic par
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Hannah Heaton, originally from Fife, has become the first ever recipient of ‘The Derek Mickel Architecture Scholarship’.
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The latest graduate destination figures demonstrate that the labour market for building and architecture graduates is enjoying a vigorous recovery, despite being one of the sectors worst hit by the recession. Architecture and building graduates enjoyed higher than average employment rates with 85.1
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As some of Scotland sees localised flooding, the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) has launched a new interactive flood reporting tool in order to help communities across Scotland be flood-prepared. ‘Report–a-Flood’ (which can be viewed at: www.floodlinescotland.org.uk/report-a-flo
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The UK Government should do more to help builders access a £525m loans scheme that it designed especially for them, says an industry expert at the UK200Group of independent chartered accountancy and legal firms. The Builders Finance Fund (BFF) was launched in April 2014 to support housing projects
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Miller Developments Ltd and Craigrossie Properties Ltd have bought a former pigment manufacturing plant in Renfrewshire in a multi-million pound deal. Residential redevelopment plans for the 63-acre site will be submitted to the local council.
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Scottish factoring and letting services firm Newton Property has purchased Glasgow-based property management company, Greenhome Property Management, for an undisclosed sum in a “substantial deal”. The acquisition, which comes hot on the heels of Newton Property’s recent merger with Aberdeen-ba
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Eighty-six properties have been completed in the final phase of Sanctuary Scotland's £30 million regeneration of Shortroods, Paisley. The properties range from one-bedroom cottage flats to three-bedroom family houses. Fifty-six of the homes are now being rented by happy tenants.
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