News

The inquiry into delays and exceeding costs associated with the first phase of the Edinburgh Trams project has highlighted considerable oversight, management and strategic mistakes by tie, the City of Edinburgh Council and Scottish Ministers.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) launched the second edition of its groundbreaking Whole Life Carbon Assessment for the Built Environment (WLCA) standard.

Persimmon West Scotland has announced plans for the construction of 426 new homes in Kilwinning, with construction to begin later this year.

Plans to demolish a warehouse in Edinburgh to make way for a student accommodation development for 155 students have been granted planning permission. Danehurst Developments has been given the green light to progress its proposals for four to six-storey student accommodation on the site of

Two Edinburgh charities have been selected to share Taylor Wimpey East Scotland's Community Chest of £2,000. The housebuilder, which is building new homes at West Craigs, Maybury in Edinburgh and Lauder Grove in Ratho Station, launched the project on social media asking the local communit

The first step in the preparation of the town centre masterplan for Fort William has been completed by Threesixty Architecture.

Build-to-rent developer and operator Moda Living has secured its fourth three-star Fitwel certification for its first Glasgow neighbourhood, Moda, Holland Park, which is due to open its doors later this year.

Housebuilders, banks and investors who gathered to discuss the findings in a new ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) report agreed that capital availability for developments is soon likely to be increasingly linked to ESG performance.

Drivers in a French village have complained after being disoriented by crisscrossed white lines on the road which the mayor has argued has purposefully made them slow down. The village of Bauné in western France introduced the series of crisscrossing white lines at interse

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: DS Harrison Developments Limited.

Raymond Carr, advertising manager for Scottish Construction Now will be in attendance at tomorrow's highly anticipated Offsite Expo in Coventry. The exhibition takes place in the Ericsson Business Hall, Coventry Building Society Arena on Tuesday and Wednesday this week.

SCN readers have reported that the two-month statutory target for dealing with planning applications is totally ignored by Scotland’s increasingly invisible planners directly leading to job losses in construction.

The trade body for Scotland's housebuilders has said the results of an SCN survey that highlights the country's broken planning system are "truly dreadful" but of "no surprise" to its members. Respondents to an SCN survey found that 96.3% of the country's architects, housebuilders, develop

Dwindling resources, a lack of accountability and planning officers working from home have been blamed for continuing delays in Scotland's planning system.

The Scotland director of the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) has called for a streamlined planning system to help small building firms avoid the "lottery of the planning process". Gordon Nelson was responding to the results of an SCN survey which found that 96.3% of the count