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HFD Group has appointed Elliot Cumming as property director, adding to the experience of its senior team. Elliot joins from London & Scottish Property Investment Management, where he spent two years as a senior asset manager. Prior to this, he spent the majority of his career in London at DTZ an

A public consultation with drop-in sessions centred on proposals to rejuvenate Aberdeen's beach area and to consider their impact on the environment has started. The consultation on the Beachfront Development Framework and associated Strategic Environmental Assessment will include interpretive board

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has been granted planning permission from Fife Council for a programme of preconstruction ground remediation works as part of the delivery of the new neighbourhood Whitefields, Dunfermline. In a further positive step for this impressive allocated and master planned develo

Plans have been announced for the redevelopment of the former Marks and Spencer store on Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street. The proposals would see the creation of a large unit for a new retailer to maintain activity at street level as well as recreating the former arcade and providing a publicly accessi

Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) and Orkney Islands Council (OIC) have approved a funding package totalling £2.8 million towards the second phase of development at Orkney Research and Innovation Campus (ORIC). The announcement was made this morning as part of the official opening of the

Consulting engineer Atkins has announced major improvements to its family leave and pay entitlements for staff in the UK, including an extended maternity pay offering of six months. According to the firm, the changes offer a significant level of support to colleagues taking or returning from family

Stewart Milne Homes will no longer be required to pay towards an extension of Ballumbie Primary school in Dundee after a successful appeal. The housebuilder argued that because the school is short of full capacity, the extension is not required and it should not need to contribute around £380,

Real estate advisor CBRE has strengthened its Advisory and Transactions team with a key appointment. Kirsty McKenzie has joined as a data analyst and will be based in the firm’s Glasgow office. She is relocating from CBRE’s market-leading Manchester office where she has worked since 2017

Property and regeneration specialist Hargreaves Land has moved its team to new premises in Glasgow as part of plans for further growth in Scotland. The company is now based at The Beacon on St Vincent Street having relocated over the summer, following the appointment of Martin Hannah as strategic la

Dundee City Council's neighbourhood services convener Heather Anderson met with a group of twelve highly-skilled refugees at the city’s Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc for a Robertson Construction site visit as part of a project which offers training and support for refugees to take a key co

Indeglas has won a Perfect Delivery Award at Morgan Sindall Construction Scotland’s recent Supply Chain Awards. Iain McAlpine, director of the Internal glazing specialist, said: “Customer satisfaction is a key driver for us and the fact that this award reflects consistency of performance

Timber expert Donaldson Group has appointed Mark Murphy as chief risk officer in a newly created role. Mark’s appointment will see him join the group’s board and executive team, and follows a period of significant growth for the business.

Proposals to upgrade the electricity transmission network in Argyll and Kintyre have taken a major step forward following recognition by the energy regulator, Ofgem, that there is a clear need for the investment required to enable the forecast growth in renewable electricity generation across the re

A replica Iron Age wooden crannog is to be built on Loch Tay again following a devastating fire. The Scottish Crannog Centre has been given the go-ahead to rebuild the Crannog roundhouse and develop a new Iron Age village on the shoreline at Dalerb, over the water from the centre’s existing si

Five Highland schools are to be nominated for consideration by the Scottish Government for improvement funding. At a meeting of the Highland Council on Thursday 22 September, councillors agreed that applications will be taken forward in three separate submissions to the Learning Estate Improvem