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With the bidding process closing today, Sheelagh Cooley, real estate partner in the Edinburgh office of law firm Shoosmiths, considers the benefits and potential challenges ahead for the operators of Scotland’s Green Freeports. It has been well publicised that the Scottish Government is curren

The new Madras College and Community Use building was officially opened on Friday with the unveiling of a new plaque. Pupils and staff have been using the new Madras College building, which was delivered by BAM Construction, since the start of the school year.

The company responsible for safety failings that led to a man falling to his death through a severely corroded platform at Longannet power station has been fined just £5,000. Gary Robertson from Cowdenbeath died from his injuries after the near-30ft drop onto concrete in February 201

Keppie Design has lodged detailed plans for 55 flats for social rent at the site of a former Glasgow car dealership. Working with Southside Housing Association, AS Homes (Scotland) Ltd wants to build new homes at Arnold Clark’s Vauxhall showroom and service facility on Pollokshaws Ro

Clyde Gateway chair Alison Thewliss discusses the company's ambition over the past decade to transform derelict and inaccessible sites into new green spaces - work inspired by the UN's Sustainable Development Goals. Glasgow is rightly known as the “dear green place” due to the

Joanne Plant (MRTPI) has joined Savills as an associate director in the company's planning team in Scotland. Based in the firm’s Glasgow office and focusing largely on the company’s fast-expanding renewables planning consultancy, Joanne will work alongside Simon Herriot, Savills director

National rail contractor QTS Group has completed the construction of a new rope access training centre at its Scottish headquarters in Drumclog, South Lanarkshire. Work on the bespoke, state-of-the-art facility was completed in February 2022 and has been audited and approved by the Industrial Rope A

The bidding process to apply to become one of Scotland’s two Green Freeports closed yesterday with five bids received by the Scottish Government. Bids from Clyde Green Freeport and Aberdeen City & Peterhead Green Freeport joined competing entries from Opportunity Inverness a

A floating restaurant that was a famous Hong Kong landmark has sunk, days after it was towed away from the harbour where it operated for nearly 50 years. The Jumbo restaurant capsized in the South China Sea while on its way to an undisclosed location, its parent company Aberdeen Restaurant Enterpris

Springfield Properties has today confirmed a deal to acquire the Scottish housebuilding business of Mactaggart & Mickel Group Ltd. Delivering housing for almost 100 years, family-owned Mactaggart & Mickel’s housebuilding division includes six live development sites and 11 future p

Major capital projects and programmes in Aberdeen are to be reviewed and reprofiled with a risk of being potentially delayed due to external factors in the construction trade’s supply chain, a committee unanimously agreed yesterday. A report is to be brought back to Aberdeen City Council&rsquo

Building, infrastructure, engineering and fit-out company Tilbury Douglas began work on the refurbishment of Network Rail’s Houston Street offices in Glasgow this month. The industrial warehouse with ancillary office accommodation is spread across two floors. The project will include the

Planning permission has now been granted for a new active travel route that will connect the National Cycle Network in Inverness between Cradlehall Business Park and Inverness Campus. The works will involve upgrading the current earth-beaten track into a wider, tarmac-surfaced route for active trave

Real estate advisor CBRE has unveiled two new appointments for its Aberdeen office. Dominic Millar has joined both the advisory and transactions and rating teams, and Lewis McManus joins the UK project management and building consultancy team.

The rising cost of debt finance and the impact on appetite to buy were top of the agenda at Savills 34th annual Financing Property presentation, launched in Edinburgh this month. Savills noted that the rising debt cost comes at a point in the property cycle when yields are historically low, meaning