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Jeff Fairburn Persimmon chief executive Jeff Fairburn has decided to give a “substantial” amount of his £110 million bonus away through a charitable trust after he said that he never wanted to receive the money.
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A property developer has been ordered to pay nearly €5.5 million to a group of graffiti artists after destroying their work without warning. The street artists took the developer to court after 45 separate artworks were whitewashed as a precursor to the redevelopment of a site.
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Site 10 of the Dundee Waterfront development project A mixed use project containing offices hotel and leisure facilities could be developed on a prominent site at Dundee Waterfront under proposals unveiled by Keppie Design.
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Homes previously delivered by A&J Stephen Housing plans which will more than double the size of a Perthshire village have won support from councillors.
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The developer behind the new £500 million Edinburgh Marina project is to breathe new life into a derelict 19th century gunpowder store. The 176-year-old warehouse at Granton Harbour has been on Scotland’s “buildings at risk” register for years.
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Building work on a £7.7 million community sports village in Banchory is now underway. Provost of Aberdeenshire Councillor Bill Howatson stuck the ceremonial spade into the ground signifying the start of the construction of Banchory Sports Village at a special event on Friday morning.
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One of Scotland’s smallest whisky distilleries has unveiled plans for a new still house on the isle of Islay following a multi-million-pound investment from The Glenmorangie Company. Subject to planning approval, the Ardbeg Distillery aims to start work this year, for completion in 2019.
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Work begins at new £3.8m Clydebank Community Sports Hub Work on a new £3.8 million community sports facility for Clydebank has officially started – with the state-of-the-art hub due to be up and running later this year.
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Expanding building materials group Breedon has confirmed it is in talks to buy a major part of Northern Ireland’s Lagan Group. The Lagan Group is a diversified construction business covering quarrying, cement, asphalt and contracting.
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Plans to transform the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) site in Hamilton into an ‘urban village’ complete with 365 homes and a five-storey hotel have been given the green light.
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The number of workers who have lost their jobs as a result of the collapse of the construction giant Carillion has topped 1,000 amid another wave of cuts. The Official Receiver has announced that a further 152 former employees are being made redundant this week, taking the total to 1,141 since the c
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The conversion of a former Dundee college building into Build to Rent and Serviced Apartments can begin in earnest after the VOX Dundee project was awarded planning consent by councillors. Voxcap Investments (Dundee) has appointed Reigart Contracts to undertake enabling works to facilitate the redev
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A developer has launched an appeal to the Scottish Government in a bid overturn Aberdeenshire Council’s decision to reject its plans for almost 250 new homes. Barratt North Scotland had proposed to deliver 247 homes on Fordoun Road in Laurencekirk.
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Planning permission in principle is being sought for a major development to the west of St Andrews which will deliver around 1,000 new homes, of which 30% will be affordable housing. The St Andrews West LLP, a partnership made up of the University of St Andrews, Headon Holdings and other local lando
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Glasgow-based energy and sustainability consultancy Carbon Futures has launched a new consultancy division as part of ambitious growth plans. Operating under the Carbon Futures brand, the company’s new division will provide a range of new consultancy services to the non-domestic sector, from plann
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