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Alex Neil A website designed to modernise the planning system in Scotland has saved an average of £241 for over 100,000 people and businesses since its launch in 2009.

McAleer & Rushe has bagged a hat-trick of hotel wins with a £19m contract to build 146-bedroom Adagio Aparthotel for Artisan Real Estate Investors on its New Waverley regeneration scheme in central Edinburgh.

First glimpse of music hall’s proposed updates unveiled

Craig McFarlane Barratt Homes has promoted Craig McFarlane to the position of construction director in the West of Scotland.

Miller Homes Limited has successfully appealed against the decision to refuse a planning application for a new residential development over the potential loss of environmental land. Judges in the Inner House of the Court of Session quashed the decision after ruling that the reporter’s conclusion w

The consortium behind plans for a new £270m hospital in Dumfries has reached financial close on the deal.

A landmark decision handed down by the Supreme Court has left Royal Bank of Scotland open to a compensation claim that could run to as much as £3 million – a case that experts claim could be repeated throughout the banking industry. Scottish builder Derek Carlyle’s seven-year battle with the 82

Andrew Davies Contractor Wates Group has reported pre-tax profits of £22.6m (£22.3m in 2013), from a turnover of £1.05bn (£931m in 2013), according to its results for 2014.

House sales exceeded £15.3 billion in 2014, according to statistics published today by Registers of Scotland (RoS). A total of 93,875 sales took place across Scotland in 2014, the highest annual figure since 2008, and an increase of 11.6 per cent compared to the previous year.

Investment in housing should be seen as a preventative measure to seriously address the growing crisis in health and inequality in Scotland, the annual Chartered Institute of Housing conference in Glasgow will hear today. Speaking at the conference in his capacity as the chair of theHousing and Well

Proposals which will help to shape the heart of Aberdeen for the future will be revealed to the public this week as the City Centre Masterplan project reaches an important milestone. The plans, includes a partly-pedestrianised Union Street and the transformation of the Castlegate into a public squar

A million pound contract which will see major repairs and improvements to the A82 in the North West Highlands is underway.

Cllr Judy Hamilton visits the site to mark the completion of phase one with council officers who have been involved in the build project Dunfermline’s new council houses ready to become homes

Name and location of development: Southbank, Kirkintilloch