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Current cashflow problems in the construction sector are “unsustainable” as small firms are increasingly having to rely on directors for funding, the Specialist Engineering Contractors’ Group (SEC Group) has warned. The group, which represents SMEs in the construction engineering sector, said

Plans for the HALO Urban Park The Scottish Government is to invest £5.3 million to turn a former Kilmarnock bottling plant into a low carbon development which will include hundreds of affordable homes.

Steve Ashmore Plant and tool hire chain HSS has reported a pre-tax loss of over £30 million for the first half of 2017 as it continues to deliver a cost-cutting restructuring of the business.

Douglas Spowart, relationship director, social housing & commercial real estate, Bank of Scotland and Margaret Turner, chairperson of Forth Housing Association Forth Housing Association (FHA) has announced a £13 million, three-year plan to build 130 new homes, with support from the Scottish Gov

(from left) Ross Campbell, senior asset manager at Edinburgh House Estates; Rab Smith, chairman of Dumfries Retailers Association and Anton Dummigan, asset manager at Wirefox. Picture credit: Robert Perry Two major Dumfries retail landlords have joined the Retailers Association to urge planners to p

Louise Dunn, CALA Homes (West) meeting Shalinay Raghavan and team from Building Futures in Glasgow as she handed over their cheque for £1,000 £15k CALA Homes (West) bursary winners announced

A new school in Angus is to be installed with a frosted window after a neighbouring naturist won the right to continue “sunbathing in the buff”, according to The Sun. Muirfield Primary School will swap places with its playing fields in an £8.7 million move as part of the Arbroath Schools Projec

Final preparations are underway on the new £1.35 billion Queensferry Crossing which will welcome its first traffic tomorrow morning. The 1.7 miles (2.7km) crossing over the River Forth, which was delivered almost £250 million under budget, welcomed a procession of vehicles ahead of a handover cere

Mactaggart & Mickel Homes’ plans to expand into England have taken a step forward with the submission of detailed planning permission for a housing development at Milton-under-Wychwood in Oxfordshire. With outline planning consent currently in place for 62 new homes, the development marks a ma

Artist’s impression of the tram at Ocean Drive The Outline Business Case (OBC) for taking Edinburgh’s tram service down to Leith and Newhaven has been published by the local authority.

Kitchen and bedroom manufacturer Trade Kitchen Centre Limited has applied to Glasgow Sheriff Court to be wound up under the Insolvency Act 1986. Tony Friar and Blair Nimmo of KPMG LLP have been appointed as interim liquidators. Solicitor firm Raeside Chisholm Solicitors is acting for the company.

How the overall King’s Stables Road development will look Plans for a mixed-use development on a vacant site in Edinburgh’s Old Town have been revised to include new affordable homes instead of an arts quarter.

Stirling Council has approved Network Rail’s planning application to replace the Kerse Road Bridge as part of the electrification of the area’s rail network. The application sought permission to replace the existing bridge in order to meet the clearance distances required for the electrification

Outsourcing group Mitie is under investigation by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) over the timing and content of two profit warnings last year. In an announcement to the stock market this morning, the company said the investigation relates to “the timeliness of a profit warning announced by

Kenny McLean More than £350 million is to be invested into Glasgow to fund thousands of affordable homes over the next four years.