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Royal Bank of Scotland has withdrawn its planning application for a residential-led mixed-use redevelopment of land it owns in Edinburgh’s New Town. The bank had applied for permission to demolish the existing office buildings at at Dundas Street/Fettes Row to create up to 400 flats as well as ret

Russian officials have been left red-faced after a statue of a Scottish scientist was erected in a tribute intended to honour a French architect. Civic leaders in St Petersburg intended to pay tribute to Jean-francois Thomas de Thomon, a French architect who designed a number of the city’s neo-cla

Proposals for a mixed used development at Govan’s Graving Docks have been refused by council planners. ZM Architecture and developer New City Vision, which owns the site, unveiled plans in March last year to bring the site back into use after 40 years of dereliction with the creation of 750 homes

Image courtesy of Grampian Housing Association Councillors have named Grampian Housing Association and community group the Torry Development Trust as preferred bidders to regenerate a former primary school site in Aberdeen.

David Alexander David Alexander, managing director of Edinburgh-based property management firm DJ Alexander makes the case for tweaking LBTT

Artist's impression of the plans at Brora Distillery The famous Brora Distillery has taken another step towards reopening after Highland planners granted permission to the landmark project.

Plans have been formally submitted to “significantly expand” the visitor centre at Lowlands distillery Glenkinchie. Diageo’s plans centre around the renovation and conversion of Glenkinchie’s traditional red brick warehouse buildings into a multi-levelled visitor experience, which will inclu

Scotland’s NHS is facing a £899 million maintenance backlog bill despite a marginal improvement in property standards, an official report has confirmed. The ‘State of the Estate’ report revealed that the proportion of NHS buildings classified as being in a good condition has improved from 58%

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre (CSIC) is inviting construction companies to discover how the latest developments in visualisation technology can help them to drive greater efficiencies and improved performance. Hosted in association with Robert Gordon University (RGU) and the Oil & Gas

The next stage in a large scale development at the western edge of Glasgow’s Central Business District has commenced with refurbishment work on 30,977 sq ft of office space at 2 Central Quay. The work, which is being carried out by London-based XLB Property and Harbert Management Corporation w

Morrison Construction’s project manager David Wright still feels a little “overwhelmed” after winning a silver medal in front of a crowd of more than 400 at the Construction Manager of the Year Awards (CMYA) in London last week. Shortlisted in the Primary Education category, David

A confiscation order has been granted against a workman who defrauded vulnerable people out of hundreds of thousands of pounds. Patrick Young, 59, was jailed for eight years and nine months in 2015 after he admitted multiple charges of fraud along with attempted fraud and extortion.

Kier has today reassured shareholders that it is confident the group will meet its full-year expectations despite first-half costs exceeding the realised savings by approximately £10 million. In a trading update prior to its Annual General Meeting at 12 noon today, the infrastructure services,

Excavation work at a Maxi Construction site in Edinburgh has uncovered a number of interesting archaeological finds, including a cannonball. Work at Old Stamp Office Close, 215 High Street, so far has identified the remains of two properties demolished sometime after the 1890s, along with a continua

Property investment and development firm Northern Trust has announced the start of work on the second phase of its a new £3 million commercial development at Grangemouth. In total the new development will total over 25,500 sq ft; with Barons Court covering 18,205 sq ft of modern industrial and