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John Gallacher at the Athletes’ Village development in Dalmarnock John Gallacher champions the use of mixed tenure developments to create thriving and sustainable communities as he looks back on four decades spent in the housing industry.

(from left) SBHA CEO Julia Mulloy, home investment co-ordinator Drew Moore, Christine Grahame MSP, Paul Wheelhouse MSP and Kenny Lynn, director at contractor James Swinton and Co. MSPs visit Scottish Borders Housing Association renovation project

Ex-footballer Gary Neville has abandoned his plan to build an £8 million eco-house likened to the home of the ‘Teletubbies’. Comparisons with the BBC programme were based on the building's unusual semi-submerged design, intended to minimise its impact on the moorland landscape.

(from left) Michelle Motion, finance director; Sandy Adam, executive chairman and Innes Smith, chief executive officer Private and affordable housebuilder Springfield Properties has reported annual revenues of more than £100 million for the first time.

Jeff Fairburn Profits at Persimmon have increased by 30% as the hosuebuilder continues to reap the rewards of its long term strategy.

Glencairn Properties is to submit plans to turn a former iconic Art Deco cinema in Edinburgh into a residential development of around 37 apartments. The State Cinema in Leith closed in 1972 and has since been used as a bingo hall, a nightclub and church.

Councils in Tayside have lost a legal bid to win damages from a local quarry merchant they claim supplied faulty materials for roadworks. Tayside Contracts, the commercial trading arm of Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross councils, raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh following a

Planning permission in principle for a new 1,500-home development in the Cairngorms National Park has been extended for a further three years following a Section 42 application to vary a condition of the previously granted consent.

Drum Property Group is to deliver 220 apartments in Finnieston Drum Property Group is targeting growth after agreeing an additional £17.5 million finance package with Royal Bank of Scotland.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has successfully recruited a new cohort of lawyers to its construction adjudicator panel. Shona Frame (CMS Cameron McKenna LLP), Richard Silver (Silver Shemmings LLP), Brandon Malone (Brandon Malone & Co), Peter Aeberli (3 Paper Buildings), Ken

Stuart Nicholson, loan investments director at Scottish Widows, LAR chairman Andrew Robertson, housing minister Kevin Stewart and Alan Brennan, relationship director at Bank of Scotland Commercial Real Estate LAR Housing Trust secures ‘game-changing’ £65m funding boost

An architect from Edinburgh is hoping to be crowned the next winner of Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off. The Scotsman reports that the 29-year-old, known only as Tom, lives in the Capital with his partner David, and often makes shortbread for his relatives and friends.

Plant, tool and equipment hire specialist GAP Group has achieved record annual turnover and its second-highest-ever profits as it reaps the rewards of diversification and expansion. The Glasgow firm, which is run by brothers and major shareholders Douglas and Iain Anderson, achieved an 11% jump in t

Leo Quinn Balfour Beatty has revealed that it is likely to vote against the continuation of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) because of a “fundamental weakness” in the training body.

Pictured with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are (from left) GHA chair Bernadette Hewitt, retired tram conductress Catherine Mulrine, GHA tenant Marilyn Cunningham and Joe Murray who secured a job on the Govan site Affordable homes provider Wheatley Group has secured a further £65 million of privat