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North Ayrshire Council has highlighted the impact of its work to provide new affordable homes after its cabinet approved its new five-year Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) for 2025-2030. The council and its Registered Social Landlord partners are delivering new homes throughout the area. Cou

Higher costs from new levies will add around £40 million in annual costs to Persimmon and add “billions” in expenses across the housebuilding sector, chief executive Dean Finch has warned. He claimed that the taxes would hurt the government’s ambitious target of building 1.5m

Sidey has been awarded a significant contract with North Lanarkshire Council for the design, manufacture, supply, and installation of replacement windows, doors, and screens across council-owned domestic properties. This transformative refurbishment programme, set to be delivered over the next two t

Cala Homes (West) has submitted a planning application to Renfrewshire Council to create a new residential development at Burnfoot Road, Lochwinnoch.

Highlands mid-market rent (MMR) homes developer HHA has strengthened its partnership with Tulloch Homes in a deal that will create 31 new rental opportunities in Inverness and Conon Bridge. At The Maples, located to the south of the Inverness city centre, Tulloch Homes is underway with the construct

Persimmon Homes has announced a new partnership with Fife College, with the recruitment of 19-year-old Casey Gardner as an apprentice painter and decorator. The partnership announcement cements Persimmon's place as the largest partner of construction colleges across Scotland.

Two community councils in the south of Aberdeenshire are the first to submit Local Place Plans which gather ideas, highlight issues and express their communities’ aspirations for the future of their place.

The world's deepest and longest road tunnel is being built in Norway. The tunnel will connect the districts of Randaberg and Bokn, which are separated by a 16-mile body of water, cutting the 21-hour journey across the country in half.

UK investment specialist Blackfinch Group has acquired a 174-hectare commercial forest in Argyll and Bute. The acquisition, made through its subsidiary Litchfield Trading Limited and funded by retail investors through the Blackfinch Adapt IHT Service, marks Blackfinch's first foray into the forestry

A major planning application has been submitted to North Lanarkshire Council for the extraction and remediation works of 200 acres of land at Ravenscraig, marking a major milestone in the regeneration of the former steelworks. Ravenscraig is one of Europe’s largest regeneration and community c

Surveying firms Shepherd Chartered Surveyors and Whyte & Barrie Chartered Surveyors have come together to form a new practice. Established in 1880, Shepherd is a chartered surveyor and Home Report provider in Scotland providing clients with comprehensive local market knowledge with the benefit o

Scottish Water has completed one of the first sewer network upgrade projects under its flagship £500 million Improving Urban Waters programme.

Knight Frank predicts that the utilities and information & communications sectors will dominate economic growth in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, and Glasgow through 2050. This growth will be buoyed by the transition to net zero and the rise of AI.

Network Rail will soon begin a £3 million project to upgrade the platforms at Dunkeld and Birnam station. 

Members of The JR Group team attended The Lighthouse Construction Charity Scotland West Annual Dinner, an event which took place at the Grand Central Hotel in Glasgow, highlighting the charity’s work supporting workers within the construction impacted by mental health challenges.