Plans to build more than 600 new homes in one of Glasgow’s key regeneration areas have moved a step closer to becoming reality. A masterplan for the site in Hamiltonhill received planning permission in principle in December. And now, developers behind the £90 million mixed-tenure project
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Plans to bring the iconic Port Ellen Distillery on Islay back to life in a unique celebration of distilling heritage and innovation have been formally submitted. The detailed planning application setting out proposals that will see the famous ‘silent distillery’ reopened more than 35 yea
President of Indonesia Joko Widodo is planning to relocate the nation's capital away from Jakarta, the world's fastest-sinking city. Bambang Brodjonegoro, national development planning minister of Indonesia, revealed the president's plans to move the capital off the island of Java.
Drum Property Group has appealed a decision to reject its plans to knock down a prominent part of Leith Walk to make way for student housing and a hotel.
Legislation to bring forward the restoration and renewal of the Palace of Westminster has been tabled by the UK Government as the first images of temporary House of Commons Chamber were revealed. The Parliamentary Buildings (Restoration and Renewal) Bill aims to ensure the Restoration and Renewal Pr
Developers behind proposals for a £50 million mixed-used transformation of Leith Walk have been dealt a major blow after the University of Edinburgh ended its involvement in the student flats element of the project. Drum Property Group plans to remove the red sandstone buildings and industrial
Grampian Housing Association’s plans to convert a disused Victorian school site in Royal Deeside into 24 affordable homes have been approved by councillors.
Transformational plans to further enhance teaching and learning spaces at the University of Aberdeen have further progressed with the beginning of work on a new £35 million Science Teaching Hub. A wide portfolio of major regeneration and development projects with a combined cost of almost &pou
A state-of-the art veterinary referrals hospital totalling 30,000 sq ft is to be built at Livingston Trade Park after integrated veterinary services provider CVS Group bought a 1.2 acre plot at the site. The listed company has been granted planning permission by West Lothian Council to build a veter
Students from Clackmannanshire have played their part in the construction of the £15 milion Tullibody South Campus project by completing a programme run by infrastructure firm Robertson. Twelve S4-S6 pupils from Lornshill, Alva and Alloa Academies followed the ‘Introduction to Constructi
The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has confirmed the appointment of its new chief executive following the retirement of Chris Blythe OBE. Caroline Gumble, currently chief operating officer for Make UK, will take up the post in August.
Property consultancy Galbraith has appointed nine graduate surveyors following its expansion into Northern England and publication of buoyant financial results. The new recruits will join the firm’s offices in Stirling, Edinburgh, Perth, Castle Douglas, Hexham, Cupar and Inverness, boosting th
A car park, a swimming pool and a McDonald's are just some of the most outrageous design proposals for the fire-hit Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Architecture magazine Dezeen has collated some of the most outlandish.
A public consultation is set to begin on plans to redevelop Dumbarton's historic Glencairn House into a state of the art library and museum.
Cube Glass is literally spanning the UK with a slew of lucrative new contracts from Shetland in the north to Winchester in the deep south of England. Totalling more than half a million pounds, the latest string of successes and business wins put the Cumbernauld-based glass and aluminium special


