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Work on the new £36 million Blairgowrie Recreation Centre, which is Scotland’s first Passivhaus leisure development, is now underway. The new centre will replace the current building, which is 41 years old and will give residents in East Perthshire access to state-of-the-art facilit

The Scottish Building Federation (SBF) has announced Euan Clark as its new president. The commercial director of Ashleigh (Scotland) Limited, based in Prestwick, replaces the outgoing president Greig MacLeod of MacLeod Construction in Lochgilphead, who has held the post since 2021.

Industry leaders from across Scotland's public and private sectors have been appointed as co-chairs to develop ten core construction areas where transformation across the sector is needed most. Their appointment follows the publication last year of the Scottish Construction Accord by the Constructio

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has completed external fabric repairs to the Church of Scotland headquarters building on George Street, Edinburgh. The headquarters comprises two buildings – 121 George Street, which dates from 1910 and the adjacent 123 George Street, a Georgian

An important planning document which will help to shape future land use of Aberdeen and guide planning decisions including housing developments, leisure, and industrial zones was approved yesterday and will be formally adopted by Aberdeen City Council over the next few days. The modified Aberdeen Lo

The National Retrofit Hub has appointed Rachael Owens and Sara Edmonds as co-directors who take over from Russell Smith, interim director, in mid-July 2023. The two join at a crucial point in the Hub’s progress towards enabling the delivery of housing retrofit at scale in the UK. Working close

Hadden Homes has obtained approval to build 39 new homes in Newtyle, marking the largest expansion of the village in decades.

South Ayrshire Council has received plans to convert empty office space in Ayr into residential flats.

Members of Glasgow City Council's planning application committee have approved plans to build an apartment block on an old tennis court at a West End sports club.

Springfield and Wheatley Group have signed a deal worth £9.7 million to drive the regeneration of Deans South in Livingston. The deal will be transformational for the local area and will deliver high-quality new homes, with the creation of the first 46 properties, built by Springfield, within

Councillors have granted planning permission for an application to build 25 social homes in Tarbolton. The plans, which are part of a wider development, relate to a parcel of land at the Croft Street and the Westport area of the village. Behind the proposals are Hayhill Developments Ltd, of Mau

Cruden Homes has officially begun work on 48 new private homes for sale in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow.

Pupils at Aberdour Primary School in Fife have taken part in Cala Homes’ ‘Land to Life’ project – a new curriculum-based schools programme aimed at children between the ages of seven and eleven.

Clearer Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulation is needed to accelerate success and growth opportunities in the housebuilding sector, a joint study from law firm Womble Bond Dickinson and the University of Cambridge has found. The research, titled ESG: Investing in the built envir

Barratt Developments and Stepps Primary School celebrated Garden Wildlife Week.