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The woman credited with opening up the legal profession to commercial ownership has been appointed to lead the new Standards and Regulation Board at the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS). Dame Janet Paraskeva - former chief executive of the Law Society - will have responsibility and ac

Scotland’s National Transport Strategy must support positive collaboration with spatial planning to meet its commitments to be a zero carbon society by 2045, according to the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI). The Scottish Government has proposed a National Transport Strategy (NTS) which se

New images have been released which reveal how Paisley Arts Centre will look after a £2.8 million transformation. The 250-year-old former church building is being upgraded as part of a wider investment in Paisley’s venues and outdoor spaces.

Sir Alex Ferguson is trying to stop a “poorly designed” three-storey mansion being built next door to his home. The former Manchester United manager has objected “in the strongest terms” to plans for the new property in Wilmslow, Cheshire.

The Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has announced it plans to commission research to identify the most important outcomes in spatial planning and feasible ways to measure them. In an Invitation to Tender (ITT), the RTPI points out that in recent years the assessment and monitoring of plann

Angus Council has bemoaned the loss of a £3 million Tay Cities Deal windfall that was earmarked for a 2,500-home plan in Arbroath. The UK Government announced last week that money originally allocated to acquire the RM Condor Airfield will now go to projects in Crieff, Kinross and St Andrews i

Edinburgh-based contactor J Smart has said that its underlying profit is unlikely to improve this year due to a decrease in demand for contracting and new private housing work. The Scotsman reported that J Smart told investors that it was "difficult to make an informed forecast for the outcome of th

Baird Lumsden, the rural property specialist arm of DM Hall, has appointed Jennifer Campbell as its new head of estate agency. Jennifer graduated with a first-class honours degree from Heriot-Watt University and has worked in rural and city property sales for many years, providing expertise on all a

South Ayrshire Council has officially opened its latest affordable housing development, which was delivered by Cruden Building. Neighbours Louise and Joan love their new homes

A building firm has been ordered to demolish a newly-built £250,000 home. The Press & Journal reports that Aberdeenshire Council’s planners moved in after discovering the detached four-bedroom house had been built without permission on an estate near Banff.

Work to transform Paisley Museum into a world-class destination can start next year after planning permission was granted for the £42 million project. Designs by international architects AL_A will turn the Category A-listed Victorian building into a leading European museum telling the unique s

Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has appointed James Beckwith as an associate quantity surveyor in its Glasgow office. An experienced and commercially astute quantity surveyor, project manager and construction consultant, Beckwith qualified as a chartered quantity surveyor in 2008, wa

Urban Union is celebrating after its Laurieston development has won the Excellence in Regeneration Award at the CIH Scotland Excellence Awards. The £140 million revitalisation project at Laurieston Living was commended for its informed design process, which took into consideration financi

Scottish Construction Now reached a record audience last month with registered subscribers to the daily newsletter reaching 9,016 and individual users of the website soaring to a record 88,908. Twitter followers also rose to 5,669. SCN editor Kieran Findlay said: “SCN continues to go from

South Lanarkshire Council and hub South West Scotland have appointed Morgan Sindall Construction to deliver three early years nursery schemes worth a combined by £7.5 million. The main contractor will deliver three new single-storey buildings at Newton Brae, Cambuslang; Kirkmuirhill, on Thornt