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BGF’s Patrick Graham (left) with Campion Homes chairman and MD Pete Bell Family-owned housebuilder Campion Homes is to accelerate its private residential and affordable home building programme after receiving a multi-million pound investment from the Business Growth Fund (BGF).

Pam Ewen RTPI Scotland and the Scottish Property Federation have welcomed the Scottish Government’s announcement that it will seek to simplify and strengthen the planning system with a White Paper later this year and a Planning Bill in 2017.

Artist’s impression of South Fort Street by EMA Architects A detailed planning application has been submitted to build 122 homes at South Fort Street in Edinburgh.

(from left): Bill Matthews, chairman of Hub West Scotland; NHSGGC chairman, John Brown; Lorraine McMillan, chief executive, East Renfrewshire Council; East Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) chief officer, Julie Murray; East Renfrewshire Council leader, Councillor, Jim Fletcher T

The latest round of successful applicants for the Skills and Training Fund has been announced by the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB). The fund, which is part of CITB’s Flexible Fund, grants up to £5000 for levy payers with fewer than 50 employees, to provide skills and training to the

Decision looms on homes plan at former Aberdeen stadium site Plans to transform the long-term home of an Aberdeen football club into a new housing development are to be discussed by councillors this week.

Australian builders have destroyed three murals by the renowned street artist Banksy, according to Sky News. Three rat stencils around a doorway in Melbourne were drilled out and dumped in a skip during renovation work.

The Scottish Government has identified 10 immediate actions which it said will help deliver more homes and speed up the planning process. Building on the momentum that gathered during the work of the independent planning review panel, housing and planning minister Kevin Stewart said the crucial acti

A P-8A Poseidon in flight US plane maker Boeing has announced it intends to build a new £100 million facility for a new fleet of spy planes at RAF Lossiemouth in Moray.

Costain has been awarded a contract by Total E&P UK for the construction of a Hydrochloric Acid Dosing Plant at the Shetland Gas Plant (SGP). The contract, the value of which was not disclosed, includes installation, tie-in, pre-commissioning, and commissioning support.

The Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme (LCITP) has announced the launch of funding support aimed at the delivery of large scale transformational low carbon infrastructure projects based in Scotland. The available funding will provide financial support of up to £20 million per project wh

View of internal street Plans for a housing development which aims to attract key health workers to the north-east have been recommended for refusal by Aberdeen councillors.

A joint venture between Costain and Vinci is to begin on a £100 million waste water tunnel project in Glasgow. Work on the Shieldhall Tunnel scheme has taken a step closer after cabinet secretary Roseanna Cunningham officially launched the 1,000-tonne tunnel boring machine (TBM) at a ceremony last

The contract for building the new Torvean Golf Course in Inverness has been awarded to a joint venture partnership between Coffey Construction Ltd and EGS Golf Ltd. The tender value is £5.57 million for the golf course construction and Torvean housing site preparation works.

(from left) The Hardies team by the Trump Helicopter - Martin McCabe, Danny McArthur, Derek Ferrier (managing partner) and Craig Smart Hardies reflects on work at Trump Turnberry