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Juniper Residential has welcomed the planning approval of its proposals for a retirement living scheme on the site of the former Windlestrae Hotel in Kinross. The application gained approved by the planning committee of Perth & Kinross Council yesterday.

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) is to start work on three new sites later this winter as it continues its commitment to help meet the growing need for affordable housing in the region. The work will see SBHA deliver 22 new homes in Oxton, Kelso and Peebles.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has secured detailed planning permission from East Lothian Council for the development of 69 new homes at St Clements Wells in Wallyford.

Bellway Homes has submitted an application to Renfrewshire Council seeking to build 250 houses and flats on a brownfield site beside the Clyde at Braehead.

Councillors have approved plans for 27 new homes in the Aberdeenshire village of Sauchen.

The short-term outlook for the Scottish housing market has improved markedly following the General Election result with price and sales expectations for the three months ahead increasing sharply, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).

Economy secretary Derek Mackay has marked the start of work on a new building being delivered by Clyde Gateway in the heart of the East End of Glasgow which is set to become the headquarters of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). The STUC had undertaken an extensive search to find an office a

The chief executive of the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Hong Kong Institute of Planners (HKIP) in a bid to strengthen relations between the two organisations.

Inverclyde Council has approved plans to build two new homes on the site of the cottage where murder victim Margaret Fleming lived before she went missing.

Senior leaders from the public, private and third sectors gathered in Falkirk yesterday to hear about the Falkirk and Grangemouth Investment Zone. The meeting detailed the major economic opportunities for the local area that could see thousands of new jobs created and hundreds of millions of pounds

Acting on behalf of administrators, Shepherd Chartered Surveyors has sold two plots of commercial land at Inveralmond Industrial Estate in Perth for a combined total of £766,000. Inveralmond Industrial Estate is an important and established trading estate serving the Perth area and is situated

A goalkeeper who was hit by a football has won a £500,000 payout over the injury.

Osborne & Co has unveiled new images of its proposed transformation of Glasgow’s Metropolitan Tower into ‘defurbished’ office space.

Building and civil engineering contractor Farrans has started 2020 by announcing the appointment of Jim Steele as its new Scottish regional director civils. Well-known in Scottish civil engineering circles having held senior positions in the industry, Jim was recently a board director at Galliford T

A Dundee construction business which formed in 2017 has set up a building work and civil engineering division and hired a manager of the new team. Alpha Projects said the move will allow the firm to pursue larger contracts and offer a broader range of services, including landscaping and site works s