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Emergency Repair, Scotland’s first all-trades national emergency repairs company, is on track to record a turnover of £1 million in its first six months of trading. With 2000 emergency trade specialists and experienced engineers on call across the UK, the firm covers the length and bread

Investment of more than £18 million will be made in local council housing after Stirling Council agreed a 6% rise in rents for 2024/25. A Special Meeting of Council yesterday supported the rise, increasing the average rent by £4.79 per week over the 48-week rental period, from £79.

The Kingdom Group has appointed James Hudson as its new asset management director. A passionate social housing professional and current chair of the CIH North East Regional Board, James has a proven track record of providing strategic leadership in the development and delivery of corporate objective

ECD Architects has been appointed to a framework that will help housing associations reach their carbon emissions targets. The GFP Decarbonisation Delivery Framework for Scotland, which is managed by Pretium Frameworks, was developed with the Greener Futures Partnership, with Abri acting as contract

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has concluded a contract with Home in Scotland to deliver 19 affordable homes for social rent, which will form part of its Seton Rise development and the wider masterplan vision for the new community now emerging in Winchburgh.

Children and young people are to receive encouragement to get involved in shaping Aberdeen’s city centre and beachfront masterplan from an unusual source – a pair of animated seagulls, Dave and Sam.

Demolition works at Irvine’s high flats are now complete, with all five towers dismantled and the site fully cleared.

Belmont Community Cinema has appointed Aberdeen-based architecture and interiors firm TINTO to help breathe new life into the city’s iconic picturehouse. Having worked with TINTO on initial concept designs as part of its successful proposal to Aberdeen City Council, the team said it was deligh

Innovative glass and aluminium specialist Cube Glass has boosted its revenues by well in excess of £1 million as well as developing lucrative new international partnerships. The Cumbernauld-based tech pioneer has pushed its turnover to a record £4.5m in the year to October 2023, up from

A major investment by developer Surplus Property Solutions in an extensive refurbishment and upgrading of a prestigious traditional building in Aberdeen’s desirable West End has addressed a shortage of Grade A office space within the city centre. Occupying a prominent location on the south sid

Holmes Miller has shared detailed plans for various buildings to serve the planned HMP Glasgow.

A development of homes in Greenock’s West End has now launched to the market.

Nearly half (47%) of all Federation of Master Builders (FMB) members have reported a fall in enquiries for new work at the end of last year leading to a 15% fall in workloads, according to the latest State of Trade Survey.

Twelve applications for community projects in the Inverness Area have been awarded funding totalling £475,773.55k from the Community Regeneration Fund. Leader of Inverness and Area, Councillor Ian Brown said: “I am delighted that we have been able to approve a dozen key projects and acti

The dismantling of the playpark in Hazlehead Park began this week to make way for a £1 million replacement playpark, which is designed to cater for all ages of youngsters.