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Nicola Barclay Scotland’s home builders have welcomed official statistics showing a 4.8 per cent increase in the total number of housing completions in 2017 (17,739) but highlighted the long road that lies ahead in tackling the country’s housing crisis as the figures equated to just 806 extra ne

Family-run dairy Graham’s has appealed to the Scottish Government to approve its planning application for Airthrey Green in Stirling.

New government statistics reveal there were 11,677 affordable homes approved in 2017/18, 14% more than the previous year and the third consecutive annual increase since 2014/15.

The average price of a property in Scotland in April 2018 was £148,952 – an increase of 5.6 per cent on April in the previous year and an increase of 2.5 per cent when compared to the previous month.

Construction is now underway at Craigie Fields, a new mixed tenure development in Dundee being built by Hart Builders, the East of Scotland building arm of the Cruden Group.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akd94RWsDHE Building firms across the UK are being urged to sign up to innovative new NSPCC training to help their employees’ spot children at risk of abuse and neglect.

Trainee electrician Phillip Heather, a graduate of Kingdom Housing Association‘s Fife Works Construction Academy, has won Fife College’s apprentice of the year award in the Year 1 SVQ Electrical Installation.

Graham Clark, head of construction at West Lothian College and members of the Lovell site team welcome four Spanish work placement students and their Santa Lucia College lecturers to the Kirkhill site West Lothian construction site gives Spanish students hands-on experience

The Falkirk Wheel, the world’s only rotating boat lift, is to be transformed into a unique pop-up theatre venue telling two of literature’s most iconic tales this summer.

New plans for residential accommodation at the gateway to Merchant City have been submitted by Glasgow-based developers Structured House Group (SHG) following feedback from local stakeholders.

Brian Berry The Beast from the East, rising costs and Brexit are to blame for the sharp drop in construction output, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has said in response to the April 2018 construction output figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

Aberdeen City Council is preparing to go out to tender for work to regenerate Union Terrace Gardens (UTG). The flagship City Centre Masterplan project aims to transform the Victorian gardens into a usable and inclusive space by improving access, amenity and activity.

Thousands more long-term, privately-owned empty homes across Scotland are in the sights of an expanded team which aims to use all its powers to bring them back into use.

Plans for a pioneering £55m luxury residential retirement development, expected to be the first purpose built of its kind in Scotland in Newton Mearns will go before East Renfrewshire Council’s planning committee this week.

Camper & Nicholsons Marinas, the developer of the new Edinburgh Marina, has confirmed that the number of new permanent jobs created as a result of the £500 million waterside project, will exceed the figure previously estimated by the City of Edinburgh Council in 2016.