News

The Construction Industry Coronavirus Forum (CICV Forum) has welcomed a call by housing minister Kevin Stewart for the reduction of VAT on repairs and maintenance. The industry collective has backed a letter which the minister sent to the UK secretary to the Treasury, pressing for a reduced rate on

The Scottish Government’s chief planner and housing minister have issued published a letter that provides an update to stakeholders on how the planning system is continuing to work through the pandemic and updates on recent progress on planning reform. In the letter, John McNairney and Ke

From this week, the homes of 50,000 UK households will be upgraded with green improvements from a £562 million fund, reducing carbon emissions and supporting thousands of green jobs across the country.

As the Scottish Parliamentary elections loom, the Scotland and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) has issued a manifesto detailing the steps the incoming government needs to take to help create a profitable and sustainable construction industry. The comprehensive document

The senior management team at Langstane Housing Association have added their congratulations to Scottish Housing News on its 20th anniversary this month.

Shepherd Chartered Surveyors, a Scottish chartered surveyor and property agent, has embarked on an expansion drive into England with the launch of Shepherd Property Consultants. The venture incorporates the historic and highly regarded companies of Bigwood Properties in Birmingham and SJ Higgins Pro

While construction might be the only sector of the economy that is growing, Lesley McLeod, chief executive of the Association for Project Safety (APS), has warned that its recovery is far from over with many members of the association still concerned about sourcing specialist materials and

Owners of a Scottish consultancy firm are urging employers to nurture the next generation of planners to avoid a crisis in the profession. Directors of Aurora Planning Ltd in Aberdeen, Maggie Bochel and Pippa Robertson, insist action must be taken now to prevent a skills shortage in the sector.

The public will be given a chance to have their say on proposals to deliver affordable housing in Dundee. 

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has teamed up with solar panel manufacturer Viridian Solar to support its reforestation initiative, Fusion Forest, to plant new trees both here in Scotland as well as some developing overseas countries such as Madagascar and Kenya.

The West Link project is expected to be completed this spring, with the opening of a second bridge over the canal greatly anticipated. Stage 1 of the West Link Project was completed in December 2017 and Stage 2 began in 2018. This phase of the project was originally planned for completion by the end

Police have been left stumped following the theft of hundreds of trees from the French countryside. Around 400 fine 100-year-old oaks and 50-year-old spruces were cut down in a couple of nights and removed from an area around a village in the Pyrenees.

CHAP Group is to sell its quarrying division to JKR Quarries and Concrete Products Ltd. for an undisclosed fee as it moves to streamline its operations to focus on construction and civil engineering. 

Homeowners whose flats have external cladding will be offered free safety assessments to determine which properties have material needing to be removed, as part of a £450 million package of measure to address Scotland's cladding crisis.

Over half a billion pounds will be invested over the next five years to reshape North Lanarkshire’s towns and communities. The new £500 million strategic capital investment programme agreed at North Lanarkshire Council’s policy and strategy committee underlines the commitment to cr