Two brothers who are both site managers with Mactaggart & Mickel are celebrating after each scooped a Pride in the Job Quality Award from NHBC. Jason Starritt is site manager for the family-owned housebuilder’s Buchanan Views development in Killearn, and his elder brother Paul Starritt is
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Mactaggart & Mickel has thrown its weight behind an initiative to promote positive mental wellbeing in the UK construction industry.
The start of work on the development of a new £7.5 million care home in Doonfoot, South Ayrshire, has been marked by an official sod cutting ceremony on site. The 52-bed facility is being developed by Meallmore and is the nursing care provider’s first care home in the region.
Mactaggart & Mickel has been awarded a ‘Commended Site’ at the first stage of the highly acclaimed 2019 NHBC Health & Safety Awards. Site manager Stuart Gillespie from Mactaggart & Mickel’s Greenan Views development at Doonfoot in Ayr has been recognised for demonstrati
Proposals have been put forward for residential development at Crawfield Road in Bo’ness by developers AWG and Mactaggart & Mickel. The development, which amounts to 225 houses, includes the delivery of 75 much-needed affordable homes. It is also proposed that affordable housing be priorit
An annual industry survey has once again placed Persimmon among the UK’s worst major housebuilders but there was better news for Barratt Scotland, Mactaggart & Mickel and Miller Homes. The nationwide survey from by the Home Builders Federation (HBF) awarded Persimmon just three stars out o
Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has received planning permission to build the next phase of its flagship Millerhill housing development at Shawfair in Midlothian. Mactaggart & Mickel is currently on site, finalising the first phase of the development which comprises a total of 137 private h
Offering promotions to staff to prevent them from leaving is a growing trend in construction and could harm your business, write Mactaggart & Mickel Homes director, Marion Forbes. Most of us have heard about imposter syndrome – where an individual doubts their accomplishments and has a fea
A handsome bronze war memorial commemorating employees of Carrongrove Paper Company who fought in The Great War has been unveiled in its new home at Carronbank House in Denny - with the support of Mactaggart & Mickel. The memorial, which dates from 1920, was originally erected in the entranceway
The first ever affordable housing development in the village of Killearn has been handed over to tenants by Rural Stirling Housing Association. Local MSP Bruce Crawford formally opened the twelve new homes for rent at the Aitken Street and Wilson Crescent development at a celebration ceremony.
New MD of housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel's English division, Joanne Casey, discusses her route to success within the property and construction industry and how we need to inspire more young people and women into this thriving and diverse industry. My son used to boast to his friends that I had
Family housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has signed an innovative, two-year partnership with the UK Charity of the Year to provide vital life skills and practical support to young people when they move into their own homes for the first time. The housebuilder has pledged to work alongside Who Car
A Mactaggart & Mickel site manager from Ayr has been named Supreme Award runner-up in the UK finals of NHBC Pride in the Job Awards. Stuart Gillespie scooped the runner-up title in the Medium Builder category for his exceptional management of the Greenan Views development in Ayr. Stuart has
The Court of Session has overturned a decision by Scottish Ministers to refuse planning permission for a 600-home development at Airthrey Kerse in Bridge of Allan. Graham’s The Family Dairy, in partnership with Mactaggart & Mickel Homes, lodged an appeal last year regarding its proposals t
Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has announced a significant new appointment as homes director Joanne Casey takes on the newly created role of managing director of its Homes England division. The appointment makes her the first woman MD in the history of Mactaggart & Mickel, and follows a de