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Baldoran Gate Forty new affordable homes to be built in East Dunbartonshire

As we approach the time of the year when we begin to dust off our toolboxes and get spring cleaning, a recent nationwide survey suggests that quite a few Brits will be struggling to clear their outstanding DIY task lists this year. Conducted by JJ Roofing Supplies, the survey quizzed Brits about how

North Ayrshire Council has a Public Private Partnership (PPP) bill of over £1 million a month to ensure the upkeep of just four schools, it has been revealed. A Freedom of Information (FoI) request to the local authority by GMB Scotland has shown PPP contract costs for 2016-17 of nearly £12.9m.

Housebuilder Persimmon has reported an 8 per cent increase in forward sales revenue to date this year with the average selling price up 5.8 per cent to circa £220,000. Reporting current trading, financial performance and the outlook for the current financial year ahead of its annual general meeting

David Webster Mott MacDonald has appointed David Webster as a director in its highways business in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Two schools in Argyll and Bute are in need of repairs after the local authority conducted checks in light of the closure of schools in Edinburgh, it has emerged.

Fergus Ewing, Scottish minister for business and Energy and Tourism with St Andrews University quaestor Derek Watson (centre) and Dave Raley, Vital Energi construction manager Scottish energy minister Fergus Ewing has commended the University of St Andrews’ £25 million green energy centre current

Morrison Construction has started on a new £4.3 million learning disability centre in Aberdeen. The facility is being built on the site of the old Burnside Day Centre on Mastrick Drive, between Muirfield School and Hillylands Independent Living Centre.

David Melhuish Scottish Property Federation director David Melhuish summarises the latest developments in Scottish real estate policy, and explains what is being done to attract investment into Scotland’s cities.

Ruth Davidson The Scottish Conservatives have set out plans to build 100,000 new homes across Scotland over the next five years.

Engineers begin next phase of Queen Street station works Major works at Queen Street station in Glasgow are entering the next phase, ScotRail has said.

Construction workers have unearthed human remains while carrying out work at an Edinburgh primary school. Builders working for Morrison Construction found a skeleton while digging foundations for a new classroom at St Mary's Primary, near to Leith Links.

Lourdes Primary Miller Construction, the firm at the centre of the Edinburgh schools crisis, was responsible for the closure of a school in Glasgow with the same structural problem four years ago, it emerged yesterday.

Malcolm Fraser Architect Malcolm Fraser has called for the procurement of school buildings to be returned to Scotland’s councils amid growing criticism of funding deals following the Edinburgh schools crisis.

Glasgow-based property development company London & Scottish Investments Ltd (LSIL) has submitted a detailed planning application to South Lanarkshire Council for a major new £40 million retail development at Peel Park, East Kilbride. The proposals will see the redevelopment of a long-term vaca