Almost 1,230 homebuyers in the west of Scotland have used Help to Buy to secure a new home over the past year.
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David Knight Avant Homes’ David Knight on the issues facing young and first-time buyers in Scotland and the help available to get people onto the property ladder.
A record £1 million was paid out every day during the second quarter of the year to help firms cope with the non-payment of bad debts, largely reflecting claims from many of the firms affected by the collapse of the construction firm Carillion. Figures published by the Association of British Insure
Eric Curran at DM Hall on the changes in the surveyor sector which he has witnessed firsthand over the last 40 years. It is a sobering thought that 40 years have slipped by since I first ran a tape measure across the inside of a house and popped my head under the floorboards.
Housing minister Kevin Stewart blogs about rights of appeal in planning, ahead of Stage 2 of the Planning Bill today. As stage 2 of the Planning Bill continues, the Local Government and Communities Committee will soon be looking at rights of appeal in planning. This is about whether any person shoul
The latest draft of the Planning (Scotland) Bill will place up to 88 new duties and responsibilities on planners without the resources required to undertake them, according to figures published today from the Royal Town Planning Institute Scotland (RTPI Scotland). The analysis shows that recent amen
Christmas may be the perfect time for gift giving, however when it comes to the workplace many bosses in the construction industry aren’t rewarding or recognising their employees with a token gift, according to new research. A study of 1,000 UK workers published in the Most Generous Time
Alyson Cameron discusses her route into construction and dispels the misconception that a career in the sector is for those struggling academically or that it isn't for women. From a very young age, building was a keen interest of mine. My dad was a joiner and I always enjoyed helping him, showing a
New research suggests that 51 per cent of homeowners regularly tip tradespeople, while the rest refuse.
Twenty-one of Scotland’s senior policy-shapers and key building experts, academics, and commentators were welcomed to a roundtable in Edinburgh earlier this year to debate: “What Kind of a Britain are we Building: Scotland?” The event was hosted by Niall Trafford, CEO of BRE a
Major plans to transform Dumbarton’s oldest building into a state of the art library and museum will be considered by councillors next month. The ambitious proposal would also see the existing library at Strathleven Place become a community collections store and archive where the public could
Scotland is to go greener, faster with world-leading targets in order to stop contributing to climate change within a generation under new, tougher climate change proposals.
The Clyde Arc, Glenfinnan Viaduct and, of course, the Forth Bridge are all feats of great engineering and just a few of Scotland’s most iconic bridges.
Activity in the UK construction sector fell back into negative territory last month as the sector recorded the sharpest drop in workforce number since November 2012.
The Specialist Engineering Contractors’ (SEC) Group – representing the largest value sector in the UK construction – has warned that the collapse of Britain’s oldest building company is further confirmation of the financial crisis hitting the industry. Last week Durtnell &


