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Six hundred new homes will be built in East Ayrshire and hundreds more improved in the next five years as East Ayrshire Council embarks on a £131 million programme of refreshing and renewing its housing stock. The new housing programme will be in addition to the council’s commitment of almost £5

Empty eyesore buildings on Aberdeen’s Powis Terrace which will form part of the route for the £26.4 million Berryden Corridor Improvement Scheme are to be demolished in the next few weeks. The former garage and associated properties at 78A and 86-90 are to be taken down as part of the Aberdeen Ci

Landscape architecture, urban design, planning and ecology consultancy LUC has been appointed by North Ayrshire Council to lead the regeneration of Irvine High Street. Building on recent regeneration projects in the town centre such as Bridgegate Public Realm, the refurbishment of Bridgegate House a

Unemployed people with disabilities are being helped into work through an innovative £900,000 programme which is being piloted in Scotland by Mitie and CITB. The ‘Think Differently’ initiative is designed to encourage employers to actively recruit candidates with autism, learning disabilities p

Work gets underway at the National Curling Academy in Stirling Raising the roof on Stirling curling centre

The Foreign Office came in for some stick on Twitter last night after tweeting about the new Queensferry Crossing... with an accompanying image of the Forth Bridge. This of course led to some ribbing from the Twitterati…..but not least as the bridge is being paid for by the Scottish Government and

Rick Willmott Willmott Dixon has unveiled a new corporate structure to create three distinct companies delivering contracting, residential and support services.

Paul McGirk hub South East Scotland has appointed BAM Construction as its third Tier 1 Construction Contractor.

Harry Thorburn Morgan Sindall has secured places on two major Scottish local authority main contractor frameworks in the last month.

Scottish Ministers have today granted approval for the construction and operation of a pumped storage hydro (PSH) electricity generation station in Dumfries and Galloway. Currently operated as a surface coal mine, the Glenmuckloch project will employ around 327 workers in its construction phase and

Three construction work experience and pre-employment programmes in Scotland have been successful in receiving financial assistance from the latest round of CITB funding. Eleven other projects, based in England and Scotland, shared over £800,000 from CITB in this latest round of Flexible and Struct

Ron Hepburn, MD of Stevenswood Livingston-based windows and doors manufacturer Stevenswood has continued its ambition to build a UK-wide trade counter business by completing a deal to acquire Polyframe Trade Centres Limited (PTC).

A derelict piece of land in North Sighthill is to be completely transformed after the City of Edinburgh Council finalised contracts with Keepmoat for a £35 million regeneration scheme that will also provide investment in the wider community. Work is due to start on site in February 2017 and will co

What does a day in planning enforcement look like? A pertinent question for Katherine Pollard, the network manager at the RTPI’s National Association of Planning Enforcement (NAPE). Since my first day in 2015 I’ve been guided and am working alongside a dedicated voluntary committee which represe

Broughty Ferry housing plans refused Plans to build 150 new houses in the Broughty Ferry area of Dundee have been rejected by councillors despite having been recommended for approval by council officers.