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Partnership housing specialist Lovell recorded a £13.9 million profit in the first half of 2022, up by 15% on the previous year, according to new figures released by parent company Morgan Sindall Group. Overall, the construction and regeneration group delivered a record performance in the firs

Inverurie-based RJM Architectural Design has acquired Aberdeenshire architectural practice and planning consultancy Lippe Architects + Planners for an undisclosed sum. All staff will transfer to the newly created McWilliam Lippe Architects, which will employ a multidisciplinary team of 12 people inc

Plans for a new £4 million visitor centre and 10 new homes at Dunnottar Castle have been submitted to Aberdeenshire Council. Dunecht Estates, which owns the castle near Stonehaven, is proposing to build a visitor centre with panoramic views of the castle.

Proposals for an expanded whisky storage and warehousing development in Glenrothes are set to go out for public consultation.

A town mayor — who happens to be a miniature Shetland pony — has been effectively barred from his local pub over a planning row. Councillors in Cockington, a village in south-east England, made Patrick the pony their honorary mayor in a widely-publicised ceremony last month.

Bancon Group has bounced back from the pandemic with a 1,250% boost to pre-tax profits, rising from £200,000 to £2.7 million in the latest financial year. The Aberdeenshire housebuilder and construction group saw its turnover rise by £40 million on the previous year to reach £

Morris & Spottiswood is celebrating after landing two internationally-recognised awards for demonstrating high health and safety standards. Morris & Spottiswood Scotland has received a RoSPA Gold Medal (five consecutive Golds) Award, and Morris & Spottiswood England a RoSPA Gold Health a

Aberdeen City Council has submitted a £20 million bid for plans to rejuvenate the beach area to the UK government’s Levelling Up Fund 2.

A housebuilder has said energy companies are becoming increasingly reluctant to fit meters in new homes, leading to delays in putting them to use. Stephen Kemp, managing director of Orkney Builders, told BBC News that tenants cannot yet move into homes delivered as the first phase of a social housin

A formal planning application has now been submitted to West Lothian Council to create a major new park on the site of the historic Winchburgh Brickworks.

David Wilson Homes, part of Barratt Developments, is seeking sub-contractors from across Fife to help deliver a new 342-home development in Craigtoun, St Andrews. Work will soon commence at the David Wilson Homes site, which sits close to Younger Gardens in the south-east of the Fife town. The new c

Pre-construction work has started on Taylor Wimpey East Scotland's development of 134 new homes at its Farrier Fields development in Edinburgh.

Timber expert Donaldson Group has appointed Steve Galbraith as managing director of two of its merchant retail and distribution subsidiary businesses. Mr Galbraith will take on the management of independent timber merchant MGM Timber and insulation material and specialist building product supplier J

Applicant: CA Yeaman (Edinburgh) Property Owner Limited. Planning Authority: Edinburgh

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has confirmed that construction of new homes at its new Letham Meadows development near Haddington has now started.