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East Renfrewshire Council has started works to upgrade and improve council houses across the region. New high quality kitchens will be installed in 200 homes between now and March next year as part of the council's capital improvement programme, which highlights a pledge to continually improvin

Regeneration projects across Argyll and Bute will benefit from nearly £2 million of funding, following approval at the council's Policy and Resources Committee. Almost £2m of Scottish Crown Estate funds and the Scottish Government’s Islands Infrastructure Fund has been allocated to

The Calabrian mafia has allegedly been converting cocaine into “coal” to avoid alerting the authorities when importing the product from Colombia. The supposed scheme emerged after 65 people were arrested, including two police officers.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) will have the final say on whether to approve an application to build flats in place of a former Aberdeen printworks. Aberdeen Capital Investments had its proposals for the former Scottaspress premises in Maberly Street initially thrown out by c

Councillors in Perth & Kinross have approved a £90 million investment in a new leisure venue with an equally exciting mix of attractions and built to energy efficient Passivhaus standards.

Knight Property Group has lodged plans to convert an empty Aberdeen office building into affordable homes after failing to rent or sell the building. The firm wants to deliver 26 one-bedroom affordable apartments on the upper floors of the four-storey City Point building on Chapel Str

Midlothian Council is on track to meet its five-year target of having 1,000 council homes either built or under construction by the end of March 2022. The council has signed contracts with Dandara and Barratt, who are already on-site delivering 18 council homes in Shawfair and 53 council homes in Ro

Edinburgh and Glasgow’s office markets recovered in 2021, as strong leasing volumes highlighted a return to near pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to real estate services specialist JLL. Documenting the growth of the office markets in the UK’s largest regional cities, JLL’s

Significant investment to help communities prosper following the Covid-19 pandemic, increased social care funding to improve and expand services and funding to reduce the carbon footprint of Scottish Borders Council and help deliver savings has been approved in the council budget. Over £95 mil

As part of Scottish Apprenticeship Week, Clark Contracts is holding a careers evening on March 10.

The progress of a £6.5 million, three-year research and development project to transform housebuilding to meet net-zero carbon targets will be high on the agenda at Futurebuild today. Housebuilder Stewart Milne Group is one of several organisations involved in the Advanced Industrialised Metho

Following the completion last year of 39 council houses as part of Taylor Wimpey's Maidenhill development, a further 43 homes are set to be handed over to East Renfrewshire residents throughout the summer including a mix of cottage flats, terraced houses, semi-detached and detached homes. New tenant

North Ayrshire Council is to undertake urgent work at the rear of the King’s Arms Hotel in Irvine following damage caused by recent storms.

A new National Strategy for Economic Transformation, underpinned by detailed analysis of Scotland’s economic strengths and weaknesses, has been published by the Scottish Government. The strategy contains over 70 actions across five key priority programmes that have been identified as having th

East Lothian Council’s capital spending programme has been significantly extended recognising and providing the enabling infrastructure required to support the extensive programme of housing development across the county. Just under £345 million in capital investment is planned over the