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Work on the new £36 million Blairgowrie Recreation Centre, which is Scotland’s first Passivhaus leisure development, is now underway. The new centre will replace the current building, which is 41 years old and will give residents in East Perthshire access to state-of-the-art facilit
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Work got underway at Irvine’s Seagate Castle this week to help protect the remaining structure at the historic site. The castle is near the River Irvine and overlooks Irvine’s oldest street, Seagate, and is an important part of the town’s heritage.
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Scottish Water is about to start work on the next phase of its £2.5 million project to tackle flooding on the A8 trunk road through Greenock. A new Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) has been constructed beneath Inverclyde Council’s roads depot in Pottery Street.
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Barratt Developments and Stepps Primary School celebrated Garden Wildlife Week.
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Pupils at Aberdour Primary School in Fife have taken part in Cala Homes’ ‘Land to Life’ project – a new curriculum-based schools programme aimed at children between the ages of seven and eleven.
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Members of Glasgow City Council's planning application committee have approved plans to build an apartment block on an old tennis court at a West End sports club.
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South Ayrshire Council has received plans to convert empty office space in Ayr into residential flats.
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Hadden Homes has obtained approval to build 39 new homes in Newtyle, marking the largest expansion of the village in decades.
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The National Retrofit Hub has appointed Rachael Owens and Sara Edmonds as co-directors who take over from Russell Smith, interim director, in mid-July 2023. The two join at a crucial point in the Hub’s progress towards enabling the delivery of housing retrofit at scale in the UK. Working close
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An important planning document which will help to shape future land use of Aberdeen and guide planning decisions including housing developments, leisure, and industrial zones was approved yesterday and will be formally adopted by Aberdeen City Council over the next few days. The modified Aberdeen Lo
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Hardies Property & Construction Consultants has completed external fabric repairs to the Church of Scotland headquarters building on George Street, Edinburgh. The headquarters comprises two buildings – 121 George Street, which dates from 1910 and the adjacent 123 George Street, a Georgian
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Industry leaders from across Scotland's public and private sectors have been appointed as co-chairs to develop ten core construction areas where transformation across the sector is needed most. Their appointment follows the publication last year of the Scottish Construction Accord by the Constructio
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The Scottish Building Federation (SBF) has announced Euan Clark as its new president. The commercial director of Ashleigh (Scotland) Limited, based in Prestwick, replaces the outgoing president Greig MacLeod of MacLeod Construction in Lochgilphead, who has held the post since 2021.
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A revised planning application has been submitted for the new Aberdeen market building which will be a destination venue featuring international-style food and drink outlets.
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Prehistoric stones immortalised in the Asterix comic books have been destroyed to make way for a DIY shop after the local mayor said he was unaware they were part of the heritage area.
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