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Investment proposals that would see 3,381 new affordable houses built in Fife before 2025 were discussed by Fife councillors yesterday.

East Ayrshire Council has approved a major investment of £175 million in housing and housing services over the next five years.

A step change is required in the planning, funding and delivery of roads maintenance services to address a £3 billion backlog in repair and improvement works on Scotland’s roads network, according to the Scottish Parliament’s rural economy and connectivity committee.

Clark Contracts has won the ‘Best Place to Work’ award at the UK-wide Construction News Talent Awards 2019.

Revised plans to demolish a former night club and music venue in Edinburgh in order to build flats are set to be approved by councillors.

A block of 39 flats for social rent is being proposed for the site of a former school swimming pool building in the Ibrox area of Glasgow.

A derelict Dundee pub is to be demolished and replaced with new homes under plans submitted with the local authority.

Scottish Forestry has reprimanded Downfield Golf Club in Dundee after it "unlawfully" cut down trees in an area which was set aside for housing.

Muir Homes is sponsoring Milltimber’s Primary 5 children’s football team with a donation of £500. The donation is part of its commitment to investing in the local community.

Ed Sheeran's plans for a boat-shaped prayer retreat has been granted by East Suffolk Council. The planning application says the ‘Noah’s Ark’ building, near the 28-year-old pop star’s Wynneys Hall residence, would “address an important need for a private place of retreat

Kier has announced the appointment of Gary Wintersgill as its new managing director to lead its Regional Building activities in Scotland and the North East. Gary has extensive experience in construction and manufacturing, having previously served as managing director of Kier Regional Building’

Civil engineering and plant supply company Story Contracting has opened a new Scottish head office in Blantyre following a period of significant growth in operations and workforce. The family-owned company, founded in Carlisle in 1987, already has offices in central Glasgow and Edinburgh, and employ

A planning application has been submitted for the development of the National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS) situated at the centre of the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) in Renfrewshire.

The entrepreneur behind a proposed £12 million hotel and restaurant at the Tomatin junction on the A9 has warned that the development could be in jeopardy over a “squabble” with a local distillery over the place name.

A number of council-owned sites across West Dunbartonshire are set to be sold in the coming months for a total of almost £10 million.