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The UK Government has extended the maximum loan size available through the Coronavirus Large Business Interruption Loan Scheme (CLBILS) from £50 million to £200m. The move aims to ensure those large firms which do not qualify for the Bank of England’s COVID Corporate Financing Faci

A new online service for small and medium sized employers to recover statutory sick pay (SSP) payments they have made to their employees will launch on May 26, the UK Government has announced today. Announced in the March 11 Budget as part of a package of support measures for businesses affected by

Briar Homes marketing manager Ainslie McCrone on managing buyer interest as the housebuilding sector awaits the easing of lockdown restrictions. There are certain milestones in life that are set in, well, stone, and serve as evidence of our British-ness – or Scottish-ness for that matter.

East Lothian Council is pressing for an area of the county, which includes the planned exemplar new town at Blindwells and the former Cockenzie Power Station site, to be designated by Ministers as a National Development. The Scottish Government has asked planning authorities to suggest projects or s

The chairman of Glasgow-based plant, tool and equipment hire firm GAP Group has retired after 14 years in the role.

Roddy Cormack, accredited specialist in construction law and legal director at Scottish law firm Wright, Johnston & Mackenzie LLP, explores the role of designers in the return to operations for the construction industry in the new COVID normal. It’s important to remember the responsibiliti

KR Developments Residential Ltd has submitted plans to build hundreds of new homes with roof gardens at the site of the old Partick Central Station in Glasgow's West End.

Work has restarted on building critical digital infrastructure in Inverness with NHS sites such as Raigmore Hospital being treated as a priority due to coronavirus. Construction activity initially began in autumn last year but was put on hold at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. With the approval

A survey by the CITB has found that just 141 construction apprentices out of more than 10,800 contacted have been made redundant in Britain due to the coronavirus pandemic to date.

HFD Property Management has committed to helping its occupiers during the Covid-19 crisis, with a range of cashflow and lease flexibility measures. The property management arm of HFD Group is offering a package of assistance to tenants, which includes rental support for small and medium-sized enterp

A 1,000-year-old English flour mill has resumed commercial production for the first time in decades to meet a spike in demand in from the UK’s locked-down residents.

Plans have been lodged to repurpose a vacant Edinburgh office block into a 166-bedroom hotel.

United Capital has again expanded its portfolio with the acquisition of Saltire Facilities Management, a company with over 320 direct employees and an annual turnover of circa. £30 million, for an undisclosed sum. Glasgow-headquartered Saltire Facilities Management was founded in 2000 as a pub

hub South West has welcomed BAM Construct UK and Robertson Construction to its stable of Tier 1 contractors as part of its 2020 supply chain refresh. Established in 2012, hub South West is the public-private partnership dedicated to community infrastructure projects in Lanarkshire, Ayrshire and Dumf

The Scottish Government has been asked to review Perth & Kinross Council’s refusal of a housing application in Milnathort.