Search:

Housing associations, councils and campaigning organisations for the elderly and disabled are signing up for September's Housing & Social Care Accessibility Summit organised by Horizon Housing and Scottish Housing News and supported by headline sponsor Campion Homes.

Long-serving former director of Campion Homes Marjorie Scott has passed away. The Scottish housing developer made the announcement on LinkedIn, saying Ms Scott was "an integral member of the Campion Homes family since our inception in 1989".

The Boleskine House Foundation SCIO has been awarded £250,000 by The National Lottery Heritage Fund to complete the interior restoration of Boleskine House. The investment will also enable a wider programme of community engagement, supporting the charity's vision of Boleskine as a community an

The company behind plans drawn up by Silicon Valley billionaires for an $800 million (c. £620m) utopia in central California have been forced to put the project on hold after the release of a report highlighting huge potential costs to taxpayers. California Forever had promised

Kevin Stewart MSP has written to Chancellor Rachel Reeves to call for the abolition of VAT on building projects involving regeneration, refurbishment and retrofitting. The SNP representative for Aberdeen Central has also lodged a motion at the Scottish Parliament on the issue.

Cala Homes has completed its first net-zero-carbon-enabled home. The project at its Hampton Lakes development in Peterborough will test the housebuilder’s net zero principles, providing essential learning to help inform Cala’s approach in the future.

The Highland Council is seeking contractors to tender for a Highland Energy Efficiency Framework (domestic and non-domestic). Suppliers are being invited to attend an in-person meet the buyer event on Monday 5 Aug 10:30 - 12:30 at Highland Council, Chamber, Glenurquhart Road, Inverness IV3 5NX.

Scottish health and wellbeing charity LinkLiving and McTaggart Construction Limited have partnered to give 18 young people an insight into working in the construction industry.

The Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) has received planning permission from the City of Edinburgh Council for its multi-million-pound redevelopment of the Thomas Hamilton Building on Regents Road.

A Bristol builder who overstated the income from his construction companies to secure two Covid Bounce Back Loans totalling £100,000 has been handed a suspended sentence. James Leslie, 45, of Upton Lane, Dundry, was sentenced to two years in prison, suspended for 18 months, when he appeared at

The Torvean Mobility Hub in Inverness was officially opened yesterday by the cabinet secretary for transport Fiona Hyslop as part of a visit to see key sustainable transport projects across the city.

One of Glasgow’s busiest bridges is on track to re-open to traffic next month.

Scotland’s commercial property sector saw a marginal rise in overall occupier demand for the third consecutive quarter according to the latest Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) Commercial Property Monitor, supported by a less negative picture regarding demand for retail space. A

This summer, the A9/A904 Westfield project will reach a major milestone when work starts on the next phase of the initiative which aims to transform local infrastructure and boost the economy once complete.

Former Glasgow subway carriages could be repurposed as glamping pods, community hubs, cafes or even art galleries after being put up for sale. Up to 20 of the city's old-style trains could be yours for £5,000 each.