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Persimmon has demonstrated a positive outlook for the property market after it reported a 44 per cent rise in full-year profit. The firm has increased its land holdings in 2014 to 17,000 acres, on which it said it can build over 100,000 homes.

Glasgow City Council has approved a £390 million proposal to extend the city’s Buchanan Galleries shopping mall in a move which will see the much-loved steps outside Glasgow Royal Concert Hall demolished.

The project to build the V&A Museum of Design in Dundee will begin next month with the signing of the construction contract between Dundee City Council and BAM Construction Ltd.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: AOC Queensway Data Centres Limited

Kier Group plc, the parent company of Kier Construction in Scotland, has announced strong half-year results for the six months to 31 December 2014. Group turnover increased by 11 per cent from £1,432 million in 2013 to £1,583m, while pre-tax profits slipped down 2 per cent from £36.8m to £35.9m.

Work to repair Dumfries and Galloway Council’s flagship leisure centre will not start until autumn this year and take 18 months to complete, the local authority has revealed.

East Lothian Council has called on all parties to make clear their intentions for the future of the former Cockenzie Power Station site as the authority begins to prepare its detailed plan for development in the county.

Gallagher Shopping Park, Port Glasgow Four Scottish retail parks are set to be revamped under a £200 million package of retail and office developments unveiled by Ediston Real Estate.

Work begins at Marr sports pitches

Local bus CCTV has caught the moment a sinkhole opened up in a pavement beneath two South Korean pedestrians. Emergency workers rescued the man and woman, who were then taken to a nearby hospital in Seoul with minor injuries.

An Aberdeen-based building and joinery firm has been sentenced after a worker suffered serious injuries when he fell three metres from scaffolding that he was dismantling. John William Wilson, then 47 and from Aberdeen, broke his left ankle, damaged the ligaments in his right ankle was knocked uncon

Balfour Beatty Engineering Services has been awarded a £5 million contract to install mechanical and electrical services for a new office development at Quartermile in Edinburgh known as Q9.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Unite Group Plc

Philip Hogg Home buyers in Scotland are facing further disadvantage to those elsewhere in Britain after Wales announced its intention to extend its Help to Buy shared equity scheme, Homes for Scotland has warned.

The construction of the new Timmergreens and Warddykes primary schools in Arbroath has been delayed by around six weeks because of a contractual issue with a contractor. Work on the £11 million project to replace the schools will now start in March.