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Perth-based developer A&J Stephen has submitted plans for the second phase of a 700-house development in Scone. The application, first submitted to Perth & Kinross Council on April 9, details plans to construct 58 new homes on the H29 North Scone site.

New plans have been lodged to bring a former independent school in Glasgow into residential use. Designs by Wellwood Leslie Architects will see properties on Hamilton Avenue at St Andrews Drive, Pollokshields, transformed into two villas, six duplexes and a one-bedroom apartment.

The first Sany SY500H, 50t excavator, sold in the UK is about to start work on ten oil platforms in a decommissioning yard in Methil. The machine, which carries a 60-inch heavy duty bucket from Miller UK as well as a six-tonne Fortress shear supplied by Murray Plant will help process more than 23,00

Scottish start-up QuickBlock has received more than £250,000 in seed funding that will create four skilled jobs and accelerate growth of the company’s unique rapid-assembly building blocks made from 100% recycled plastic into new markets. The investment from Equity Gap and Scottish Enter

The Resource Efficient House – a joint initiative by Tigh Grian and Zero Waste Scotland to showcase the benefits of modular, zero carbon housing – has moved from its home for the last seven years at the Building Research Establishment Innovation Park in Motherwell.

SCN's Just a Minute interview feature returns with Spectrum Properties managing director Bill Roddie. How did you get started in the industry? Hard work and determination. I judged that the property sector was the right one for me and decided to get involved. As they say, the world stopped

River Clyde Homes has handed over the first 50 homes of its waterfront development at James Watt Dock in Greenock.

CALA Homes (West) is giving potential homebuyers a glimpse of what life could be like at its new South Lanarkshire development.

Planners in Birmingham have given the green light for the world’s first pure octagonal residential building to be built in the city.

Regeneration business Peel L&P has submitted an initial planning application into its proposed delivery of 1,100 homes, a 200-bedroom hotel plus a 2,500 sqm for a mix of leisure venues at Glasgow's Yorkhill Quay. The land, located on the Northern banks of the River Clyde in the West End of Glasg

UK real estate development and investment company Scarborough Group International (SGI) is looking to accelerate its expansion within Scotland in order to capitalise on the simultaneous growth in demand for industrial and residential space. The group, which already has a significant land b

A new community hub – comprising a cafe, workshop, meeting space, office, kitchen, bike hire point and public toilets – is to be created in a disused public park gate house by Procast.

Only 36% of the UK's construction workforce is known to be paying into a pension, according to research from the Unite union.

Heat networks have not been widely adopted in the UK due to a lack of regulation and resulting lack of consumer confidence. They also require significant upfront capital costs. As Scotland is the first nation within the UK to bring out legislation in this area, Sarah-Jane McArthur and Sara

Regulation of the construction industry is essential for a safer and more productive future, election hopefuls from Scotland’s main political parties told a special digital hustings hosted by the Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum).