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The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has published the findings of its market study into road and rail infrastructure and is recommending concrete actions to drive down costs and drive up innovation and productivity.

A new planning policy aimed at influencing some lighting requirements in new developments that are subject to planning control will be considered by members of The Highland Council’s Economy and Infrastructure Committee next week.

Up to 20 companies and 57 individuals are now under criminal suspicion over the Grenfell Tower fire, as the Metropolitan Police confirmed it is on track to submit full case files to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) by September.

Savills has advised landlord Clydebuilt II Limited Partnership (CLP II), a joint venture between Ediston and Strathclyde Pension Fund, on a leasing deal that will see Chopstix open a flagship restaurant at 203 Argyle Street in Glasgow, a location famously known as ‘Four Corners’.

A major refurbishment of Dundee’s A‑listed Tay Works has been proposed, paving the way for the 19th‑century former mill to be transformed from student accommodation into 140 private apartments. Gloucestershire‑based Mears Group has lodged a listed building consent application with Dundee

Gensource’s growing influence in the sustainable energy sector has seen the Musselburgh firm shortlisted for SME of the Year at the Midlothian & East Lothian Chamber Business Awards (MELCC). The company is going for a notable hat-trick of successes at the awards, having picked up High Grow

A Glasgow-based housing developer has been placed into liquidation, with liquidators confirming the business is expected to settle all outstanding debts in full.

The Highland Council has successfully completed phases one and two of new modular “park-style” homes at the Gypsy/Traveller site at Longman Park, Inverness.

Giffnock Primary School has celebrated the installation of a new community defibrillator following successful fundraising led by the school’s parent council, with support from local donors including a £1,500 contribution from the Mac Mic Foundation, the charitable foundation of Mactaggar

A programme of works to refresh Perth city centre is underway. Repairs to damaged paving slabs outside Perth Museum have now been completed and artificial grass opposite the Museum has been lifted.

The UK’s biggest festival for a low carbon built environment will be taken directly to regional Scottish communities for the first time. For the past five years, industry leaders, policymakers, innovators and practitioners have travelled to Glasgow for BE-ST Fest. In 2026, the festival evolves

The new state-of-the-art Nairn Academy campus will open its doors to pupils in October this year, two months later than planned. The revised opening date represents a change from the previously scheduled target of August 2026, with pupils now due to start classes after the October Holidays.

McTaggart Construction, Smith Scott Mullan Architects, Harley Haddow and Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) have marked the start of an exciting new partnership with a sod cutting ceremony at Linglie Road, Selkirk - the site of 27 new affordable homes set to address housing need in the Sco

S1 Developments has broken ground on a new residential development in the West of Edinburgh, supported by a £20m funding package from Bank of Scotland.

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) grown timber is being used to bring back a taste of Iron Age life on Loch Tay in Perthshire. Around 150 tonnes of timber from FLS forests is providing the foundations for the reconstructed crannog – an Iron Age loch-dwelling – at the Scottish Crannog Cent