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The Scottish Government has opened a consultation on draft regulations and guidance for local development plans (LDPs).

A development of four houses on vacant land in Dennistoun has been granted planning permission. Balmoral Developments and DTA Architects had submitted an application proposing the development of two semi-detached two and a half storey dwelling houses on a site formerly known

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Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has teamed up with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution to confirm that it will donate £25 for each new home sold and legally completed at itsnew development in South Queensferry – Hawthorn Gardens. The first tranche of £1,075 was donated this month,

Pupils from two Highland academies will soon have the opportunity to gain first-hand experience of the construction industry thanks to a new business-education partnership. Simpson Builders in Beauly has teamed up with Developing the Young Workforce Inverness & Central Highland (DYWICH) to sign

A new walking and cycling route linking the town centres of Renfrew and Paisley is set to be built by the end of 2022 after a contract worth almost £1 million was awarded for its construction to JH Civil Engineering Limited.

Demolition and construction firms are being urged to double-down on thorough planning, management and control of demolition and refurbishment work.

Award-winning architect Richard Rogers has died aged 88. The influential architect and thinker on placemaking, who was the creative force behind the Centre Pompidou in Paris as well as the Millennium Dome and Lloyd's building in London, passed away at his home on Saturday night.

Advance Construction (Scotland) Limited has appointed Campbell Evans as group sustainability champion. In addition to his current role as SHEQ compliance & sustainability manager for the business, Campbell will be tasked with reinforcing the company’s continued drive towards its net zero a

Construction and manufacturing group CCG (Scotland) has donated over £5700 to food banks across the country this December, taking its total for community-based donations in 2021 to £174,000. As part of a burgeoning portfolio of contracts, which includes a housebuilding programme of over

Real estate advisor CBRE has acted on behalf of CBRE Investment Management UK Property PAIF to acquire Exchange Place One, a Grade A office building on Semple Street in Edinburgh.

For the second consecutive year, staff from Cruden Building (West) are giving back to local people in need this Christmas by donating 10,000 items to eight food banks across the West of Scotland.

Barratt Developments is celebrating a year of giving after its charitable efforts topped more than £204,000 in donations across Scotland. Each year, the housebuilder – which includes Barratt Homes, David Wilson Homes and Oregon Timber Frame Ltd – supports a wide range of organisati

Dandara East Scotland has gifted the pupils at Paradykes Primary School a variety of eco-friendly baubles to decorate and put on the school’s tree that was also donated by the housebuilder for the festive season. The move follows recent research from Wildlife and Countryside that revealed

A £2 million project to transform a major tourist attraction in Lochaber has secured up to £500,000 of funding from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). Funds will go towards the construction of a new base station at Glencoe ski centre which will see the demolition of the current fire