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Family-owned housebuilder DJ Laing Homes has celebrated a positive start to its Castle View development in Dundee.

The largest gold nugget in the UK has been found in a Scottish river.

An entertainment, leisure and sports venue consultancy has earmarked a site at Straiton with plans to deliver a new privately funded 8,000 capacity indoor arena. 

Cruden Group has set ambitious targets to expand its activities and boost housing delivery by 25% over the coming year in a bid to address Scotland’s chronic undersupply of housing. The independently owned construction and residential development businesses, which has delivered an average of 1

Port of Leith Housing Association has attracted investment of £40 million from Scottish Widows, bolstering its plans to create more than 650 social and mid-market rent homes by 2025. The funding will be drawn in stages at a low 30-year fixed rate of 2.84%.

Castle Rock Edinvar Housing Association managing director Richard Jennings has been appointed a director of Homes for Scotland (HFS), joining the board of the trade body with immediate effect. HFS works to ensure Scots have access to the homes they need by engaging constructively with decision-maker

Councillors are being asked to approve multi-million-pound tenders for a key part of the redevelopment of Dundee Waterfront and a flood protection scheme in Broughty Ferry. Just over £6 million worth of work to create Waterfront Place adjacent to the V&A Dundee could start early in the New

UK construction companies recorded another drop in business activity during November; however the pace of decline moderated to its slowest since July.

A ten-year action plan to regenerate Glasgow’s St Enoch District has been given the green light following a consultation process.

Housebuilder Barratt Developments has delivered a £256 million boost to the UK economy over the past year, an increase of £29m from the previous year. During that period, the group built 1,862 new homes in Scotland (up from 1,729) and supported more than 4132 jobs (up from 3,700).

Shettleston Housing Association’s Cunningham House development was named Best Affordable Housing Development (urban) in the UK-wide Inside Housing Awards. This small, ambitious project saw off strong competition from six quality affordable housing projects across the country to lift the award

CMS Window Systems has been named a double award winner in the prestigious G19 Awards, an annual awards programme for the UK glass and glazing industry. CMS Window Systems’ environmental advisor Amy Ledger and support services director Martin McCrimmon (centre) receiving their G19 Award for Su

Prospect Community Housing has announced plans to build affordable housing in Morvenside.

First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has heaped praise on the £110 million University of the West of Scotland (UWS) campus at Hamilton International Technology Park.

A team of landscapers has teamed up with a commercial nursery to supply plants and complete the soft landscape contract element of the enabling works for the new £163.7 million hospital and cancer treatment centre in Aberdeen.