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Neil Finnie Buccleuch Property strengthens team with new associate director

A scheme to convert a former North-east care home into flats has been delayed until the summer because there may be bats living in the building, the Evening Express has reported. Banff architecture firm Mantell Ritchie submitted plans to convert the former Rose Innes Home in South Street, Aberchirde

The manager of an access plant hire firm has been sentenced to two years imprisonment for his neglect of health and safety obligations that led to the death of one man and caused serious injury to another. Donald Craig was handed the maximum penalty at Airdrie Sheriff Court on Friday after his compa

Laing O’Rourke has reported a pre-tax loss of £141.3 million for its main UK construction business for the year to March 31 2016. The deficit, which emerged as the contractor posts results at Companies House for various operating arms of the business, compared to a £59.4m loss in 2015.

The depreciation of the pound is leading to an increase in material prices for 70 per cent of UK builders, the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has warned. New research from the trade association has revealed that a 20 per cent rise in the price of timber and other building materials is leading t

Plans for a £6.5 million research and innovation campus in Stromness in Orkney are set to go ahead after the two organisations behind the venture agreed funding for the project. The 3.75-acre campus will support the growth of existing research and innovation activity and the expansion of companies

Stefano Smith RTPI Scotland convenor Stefano Smith sets out his plans for 2017

Midlothian councillors have been urged to turn an eyesore into an asset by granting planning permission for a Home Bargains store on a vacant plot of land beside the Tesco Superstore store in Dalkeith. The application for the £3 million 17,500 sq ft development, which would create 20 construction j

Ian Hutchison 2017 promises to be another year of growth and expansion for Jarvie Plant with the hire businesses set to open its first depot in England.

National engineering specialist SES Engineering Services has secured a £5 million mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contract on Edinburgh University’s £25m project to establish a world-leading Data Technology Institute. Working alongside main contractor McLaughlin and Harvey, SES will pr

Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has today confirmed a £6.6 million capital boost to support investment in conservation work, repairs and visitor facilities at several of Scotland’s iconic heritage sites and monuments. The announcement follows the publication today of the most comprehensive conserv

Flats plan for Aberdeen church Plans have been unveiled to demolish part of an Aberdeen church to form a block of 20 flats.

A Chinese woman desperate to guard her property waved her soiled sanitary pad at the demolition team to stop them from bulldozing her home by force, the Daily Mail has reported. Her self-defence tactic apparently worked as the uniformed construction workers retreated from her house, as a social medi

The £4m Strathview Rise development being constructed by Hadden near Forfar Perthshire construction group Hadden has declared a “satisfactory” year of trading after posting an increase in turnover and profits.

Developers are ready to press ahead with the first phase of a 1,500-home project in Oudenarde near Perth, 20 years on from when it was first mooted. Perthshire developer GS Brown Construction has teamed up with Taylor Wimpey to submit an initial planning application for 159 two, three and four bedro