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Housebuilder Taylor Wimpey has dismissed concerns about the impending EU referendum as it reported a higher order book for the first four months of the year. In an upbeat trading statement issued this morning, the company said it was well-equipped to react to any potential changes in the market due

Kezia Dugdale Scottish Labour has launched its manifesto for the Holyrood election, pledging to reform the planning regime and to end the housing crisis by building 60,000 affordable homes.

Simon Rubinsohn International businesses are postponing investment in Britain in the wake of EU uncertainty, a new paper by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has claimed.

The Sweett Group project team Sweett Group, the provider of professional services for the construction and management of building and infrastructure projects, has been appointed by Fife College to provide technical advisory services on its new £90 million West Fife Campus in Dunfermline.

A proposal to establish a new primary school to serve the rapidly expanding southern outskirts of Elgin has been approved by councillors. Members of Moray Council’s children and young people’s services committee gave the proposal their unanimous endorsement.

Alasdair Henderson The Federation of Piling Specialists (FPS) has appointed Alasdair Henderson as its new chair.

CCG begins work on 20 Weslo homes in Falkirk Work has started on a new social housing development in the Tamfourhill area of Falkirk.

The man formerly responsible for planning Berlin’s much-delayed international airport has claimed the air hub will never open, after a series of failures have left city authorities red faced. Talking to the Berliner Morgenpost, Dieter Faulenbach da Costa, who was responsible for planning the proje

The latest pay talks for the largest construction industrial agreement have broken up after unions and employers were unable to agree a deal. Around 500,000 construction workers are affected by The Construction Industry Joint Council Working Rule Agreement.

A Proposal of Application Notice (PAN) for a new development of up to 3,000 homes has been submitted to North Lanarkshire Council. Developer Orchard Brae is planning to build the homes and other retail/commercial units off the M8 at Eurocentral.

BRE has launched the final phase of its innovation park at Ravenscraig. Students from New College Lanarkshire are actively involved with the Curriculum House which is the first ‘live’ higher level educational project of its kind in the UK.

Lochgilphead is in line for new industrial, tourism and community developments after councillors agreed a strategic masterplan for Kilmory Park. Part owned by Argyll and Bute Council and MacLeod Construction Ltd, the site will be split into five zones to be developed for industrial, business, touris

ISG has completed a £2.3 million refurbishment of an office block at 100 West George Street in Glasgow. Designed by Bennetts Associates on behalf of Whiteburn Projects and London & Scottish Investments, the work has created over 19,500 sq ft of open plan, high-specification office accommodation

Glasgow City Council is to host an information event on a pioneering self-build project in Maryhill. The event on Saturday 30 April between 10.30am - 12.30pm in Maryhill Burgh Halls will see the launch of the first phase of Maryhill project.

BBC current affairs programme Scotland 2016 held a housing debate last night ahead of next week’s election for the Scottish Parliament. The panel was made up of the SNP’s Alex Neil, Katy Gordon from the Scottish Liberal Democrats, Douglas Ross from the Scottish Conservatives, the Scottish Greens