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Progress in Scotland’s planning service is being made despite a significant decrease in resources, a report from RTPI Scotland has found. According to ‘Progressing Performance: Investing in Scotland's Planning Service’, the number of planning department staff in Scotland has fallen by almost 2

Sandy Adam A housebuilder has registered its dissatisfaction with the planning service at Fife Council following the rejection of a housing development in Dalgety Bay.

The world’s largest floating offshore wind development will be installed off the coast of Peterhead after the application has been granted a marine licence by the Scottish Government. Statoil propose developing a pilot park of five floating 6 MW turbines which is to be located approximately 25km o

The first sod on a new primary school development in Stirling was cut last week at a special ceremony on site attended by councillors, school children and Scottish Government minister for learning Dr Alasdair Allan. Also in attendance were representatives of hub East Central Scotland who are leading

Plans for a new 1500-home village at Riccarton in Edinburgh with shops, a school, and a dedicated transport hub have been unveiled by developers. Details of the huge Wallace Land project on a greenbelt site north of Currie were revealed at a recent community meeting.

It is expected that it will cost up to £35 million to restore Glasgow’s fire-ravaged School of Art building, with work projected to start next summer and be completed by 2018, according to a timetable issued by the restoration team.

Tenant Marion Copeland with GHA chair Gordon Sloan and Tracy Sinclair of Safedem Scotland’s tallest residential multi-storeys have been brought down in a first for the UK demolition industry.

Plans have been submitted plans to build 54 apartments on a brownfield site at Bell Street in Glasgow. Glasgow Edinburgh Developments is working in conjunction with Grant Stafford Ltd on the project which will also consist of 5,000 square feet of commercial space and over 40 parking spaces.

Students in America have developed a Martian concrete using materials naturally found on the planet. Led by Gianluca Cusatis, the Northwestern University engineering team in Illinois said the high-strength concrete can be quickly created and is durable enough to withstand meteorite impacts — a key

Nicola Barclay The Scottish Government has unveiled more than £160 million of new funding to targeted in 2016/17 on home ownership schemes to support 5000 households to buy their own home.

A partnership between academia and industry is aiming to produce an easy and intelligent way of capturing the performance of modern buildings. The system aims to provide vital information on how much the buildings cost to run, how much energy they consume, how little they damage the environment, and

Last year's overall UK winner Advocate’s Close Scotland’s most impressive new and regenerated building projects will go head-to-head in the RICS Awards as the Scottish shortlist for 2016 is announced.

The tower in its location at Glasgow Science Centre The decision to build Glasgow Tower at the River Clyde instead of St Enoch Square is the root cause of all the problems which have beset the landmark, according to two leading architects.

Neil Collar, head of Brodies’ Planning Group The Scottish Government’s ongoing consultation on the future of planning in Scotland presents a ‘golden opportunity’ for the private and public sectors to work in partnership to tackle the shortage of new homes, a housebuilding conference hosted b

National construction industry training specialist DTL has announced a major new contract with Hanson UK. DTL (Develop Training Limited) – which has five training centres in England and Scotland - will provide electrical equipment training for more than 1,000 employees of the company, which is a l