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Residential care specialist Randolph Hill Nursing Homes has secured a £26 million finance package from HSBC to help revamp its existing facilities and support long-term expansion plans. The Edinburgh-based company, which owns and operates six nursing homes across central and east Scotland, is about

Ambitious plans for a £66 million refurbishment and redisplay of the Burrell Collection took a step closer after Glasgow City Council approved the next stage in funding for the development. The move follows a major master planning exercise, which outlined plans which will see more than 90 per cent

Kingdom Housing Association is to build 49 new, badly needed affordable homes for rent in Cupar at a cost of £6 million following approval of the planning in principle application by Fife Council. The funding for project will be assisted by subsidy as part of the Scottish Government’s Affordable

Twenty one apprentices who were made redundant following the closure of Dundee-based building firm Muirfield Contracts have been re-deployed thanks to an innovative partnership between the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) and the local construction industry in Tayside. When the news about

The University of Aberdeen has put a number of major projects at the campus on hold as part of plans to reduce its budget by £10.5 million. All capital expenditure projects which have yet to start have been put on hold for three months, including the £100m energy research centre and the redevelopm

Collective Architecture have been appointed to design the Briggait Creation Centre, the currently undeveloped land to the south of the existing Wasps Studios. The £4 million Briggait Creation Centre will give Glasgow its first dedicated public base for dance and Scotland’s first purpose built acc

Persimmon Homes East Scotland has started work on a 20 acre housing development in South Gyle, Edinburgh and is poised to begin a £17.6 million housing development in Larbert. In Edinburgh, Persimmon has started building 204 properties at its £24 million development named Station Mews at the histo

CCG has been selected for a new £3 billion UK framework designed to fast-track development of surplus public land. The Glasgow firm was named alongside Wates, Willmott Dixon, Morgan Sindall and Bouygues having been invited to tender in January.

Work on redeveloping an old Dundee asylum could be delayed until 2017 after the plans were called in by the Scottish Government. Plans were finally approved on December 18 to convert the former Strathmartine Hospital into 222 new homes following years of debate and an initial failed application to r

Inverness and Aberdeen-based off shore giant Global Energy has had its plan to create its own harbour at the entrance to the Cromarty Firth thrown out by the Scottish Government. Global - who own the Nigg Fabrication Yard - had applied for a Harbour Revision Order last year.

Developers building homes in Aberdeen could be made subject to substitute payments more than twice as much than they currently bear for not building affordable homes after proposals to increase “commuted payments” was suggested under the 'Proposed Aberdeen Local Development Plan'. Housing develo

City of Edinburgh Council is set to become the first local authority in Scotland to become a private landlord, if plans currently under consideration go ahead. The local authority is planning to create an arm's-length company called Edinburgh Homes, which will attract private investment to fund new

Architectural practice Keppie Design has been appointed as architect for the new state-of-the-art Aberdeen Exhibition and Conference Centre (AECC). Aberdeen City Council has recently approved the financial proposals for the development of the new AECC as well as the redevelopment of the site of the

Latest figures from the Post Office’s challenger banking arm, Post Office Money, have revealed that moving house in Scotland now costs, on average, more than £8,000. The data published today by the post office, in collaboration with the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), showed th

Trio of Premier Inn extensions start on site Construction works have begun on extensions to the Premier Inns at Glasgow Cambuslang, Aberdeen Portlethan and Aberdeen Bridge of Don.