Scottish Borders

An online consultation has opened to establish views relating to the existing active travel links within the Tweedbank, Easter Langlee and Melrose Gait vicinity. It seeks to collect public opinion from residents of the surrounding areas and users of the existing routes as to what potential improveme

Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) has joined forces with Cruden Homes to bring 70 new affordable homes to the former site of Howdenburn Primary School in Jedburgh, the largest new project that the association has carried out to date.

Plans for 70 new homes on the site of the former Howdenburn Primary School in Jedburgh have been unanimously approved.

Eildon Housing Association hosted an Open Afternoon event on Tuesday 19 March to showcase its latest major affordable housing development in Chirnside - Dominies Way and Dominies Road.

Work has officially commenced on 25 new homes in Upper Langlee in Galashiels, in what will be Waverley Housing’s first new build development.

Edinburgh-based developer Whiteburn Projects has secured planning consent from the Scottish Borders Council's Planning and Building Standards February 2024 Committee to deliver its plans for the regeneration of the former March Street Mill, in Peebles.

Whiteburn Projects has received positive endorsement of its plans for the regeneration of the former March Street Mill, in Peebles.

A public consultation has been launched on the first draft Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) and accompanying five-year Delivery Plan (2024-2029) for the Scottish Borders. The draft strategy outlines the long-term plan to make heating more eco-friendly in buildings across the region

Poynder Gardens, Eildon Housing Association’s latest 16-home development in the grounds of the historic former Kelso High School, has now been completed and new tenants are moving in. The new properties are set in the grounds of Eildon’s award-winning extra care development, Poynder Apar

Several Scottish projects have been successful in obtaining Levelling Up funding towards regeneration projects.

RES has submitted a Section 36 application for consent to the Scottish Government for a 19-turbine wind farm and energy storage proposal located approximately 9km north of Lauder in the Scottish Borders.

The JR Group is inviting local businesses and SMEs to a Meet the Buyer event in Hawick, ahead of the business starting its inaugural project with Scottish Borders Housing Association (SBHA) in January 2024. Taking place on Thursday 23rd November at Burnfoot Community Hub, 89 Burnfoot Road, Hawick, T

Melrose Football Club has received planning permission from Scottish Borders Council for new changing rooms and a community hub at Gibson Park.

CSY Architects has obtained planning approval and listed building consent for the restoration of Cavers Castle near Hawick.

Scottish Borders Council has approved the next steps required to progress with plans for the development of a care village for the central Borders to be located in Tweedbank. The approval was given at a meeting of the council on 28 September when members were provided with a detailed update on the p