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Anas Sarwar MSP marked Scottish Housing Day last week by meeting Persimmon Homes apprentices building new skills on site. The Scottish Labour Party leader hears how the apprentices are growing their skills and gaining valuable experience in the housing sector at Persimmon’s Castle Gardens deve

Cala Homes (West) will host a second stage public consultation event from 2 – 7pm on 28 September at Barrhead Foundry, where the local community is invited to provide feedback on proposals to create a residential-led development to the south of the town near Balgraystone Road, Springfield Roa

The Highlands are set to see £343 million of capital investment over a five-year period after the local authority agreed a revised programme covering 2024/25 to 2028/29.

Jo Gilroy, group director of sustainability at Balfour Beatty, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of introducing hydrogen solutions on site at the company’s zero carbon construction site at the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh. It’s been a few months since we last updated on our progre

McTaggart Construction has been named Business of the Year in the prestigious Scottish Women’s Awards 2023. Managing director Janice Russell received the award for her and the family firm’s outstanding achievements.

Four weekends of track and drainage work begin on the East Coast Main Line in Scotland got underway last weekend.

The Energy Training Academy has started work on the first net zero home of its kind in Scotland. A one-bedroom bungalow, the unique property is housed within the 12,000 sq ft. training centre in Dalkeith and once finished it will comprise a kitchen, living room and bathroom, all kitted out with the

Ardgowan Distillery has appointed Muir Construction to begin the first phase of Inverclyde’s first zero-carbon whisky distillery.

People across Fife are being encouraged to have their say on plans to help tackle the climate emergency, cut carbon emissions and make the region’s buildings more environmentally friendly over the coming years.

As a publication of record and analysis, Scottish Construction Now is not given to publishing editorials or pontificating but the overwhelming results of our readers’ survey on the state of Scotland’s planning system are so devastating that we are compelled to speak out. Of the 135 busin

SCN readers have reported that the two-month statutory target for dealing with planning applications is totally ignored by Scotland’s increasingly invisible planners directly leading to job losses in construction.

Dwindling resources, a lack of accountability and planning officers working from home have been blamed for continuing delays in Scotland's planning system.

The trade body for Scotland's housebuilders has said the results of an SCN survey that highlights the country's broken planning system are "truly dreadful" but of "no surprise" to its members. Respondents to an SCN survey found that 96.3% of the country's architects, housebuilders, develop

The Scotland director of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has called for a streamlined planning system to help small building firms avoid the "lottery of the planning process". Gordon Nelson was responding to the results of an SCN survey which found that 96.3% of the count

‘Poorly drafted’, ‘overly complex’ and ‘rushed’ – these are just some of the words used by SCN readers to describe the new planning framework that puts an impossible burden on a failing system presided over by shambolic planning departments.