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Housing plan for former Elgin care home site Councillors have approved plans to demolish a former care home in Elgin to make way for housing.

Cruden Building & Renewals Limited has taken on four successful candidates to its coveted ‘Modern Apprenticeship Scheme’, as it maintains its commitment to addressing challenges posed by a sector-wide skills gap. Paul Conway, Michael Quigley, Reece Sutherland and Kieran Murphy have all start

Councillors have been asked to approve revised plans for a multi-million pound brewery and visitor attraction in the centre of Inverness. The owners of the Glen Mhor Hotel on the city’s riverside were refused permission in October last year for their plans to demolish a bar to incorporate the Coli

A joint research project between the University of Glasgow and Nankai University in China has shared a £1.5 million award focused on urban transformations in China. Announced by Chancellor George Osborne in China, where he is leading a trade mission, three joint teams of UK and Chinese researchers

Speculative Bellshill industrial development Developer J. Smart & Co. (Contractors) plc has started construction of a first phase 20,000 sq ft speculative industrial unit at Belgrave Point, Bellshill.

The vision for a new Meadowbank Sports Centre has moved a step closer after the City of Edinburgh Council revealed the funding shortfall has dropped dramatically. According to a report in February, the estimated cost of the project was £43 million with a funding shortfall of between £11.3m and £1

The City of Edinburgh Council has rejected plans to outsource its Facilities Management service as it attempts to address a £126 million budget shortfall over the next four years. Councillors have instead asked for new proposals to be developed for delivering the services in-house with specialised

Glasgow City Council has given its approval to a £72.84 million investment that will bring hundreds of new affordable homes to the city. The Glasgow Affordable Housing Supply Programme will help to deliver 743 homes towards the council's commitment to build 3,500 affordable homes by May 2017, and c

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has called on the Scottish Government to switch its housing policy from assisting demand towards assisting supply if it is to effectively tackle the housing crisis. In its annual Residential Policy Paper, the RICS highlighted the success of Help to

The development firm owned by Sir David Murray has submitted proposals for the first phase of a £1 billion “Garden District” in Edinburgh. Murray Estates’ plans will see 1500 homes, a new primary school and a network of roads and streets built on land next to Edinburgh Park and the Royal Bank

Scottish Government ministers have provisionally upheld plans to develop a former psychiatric hospital in Dundee into hundreds of new homes. Plans for Strathmartine Hospital in Baldovan, to the north of Dundee, had originally been approved by Angus Council despite strong opposition from neighbouring

The Scottish Government has reached its renewable energy consumption target levels seven years early after a record amount of the country’s electricity was generated from renewables in the first half of 2015. Statistics published by the Department of Energy and Climate Change show a 13.5 per cent

Ayrshire College Kilmarnock Campus achieves 'Outstanding' BREEAM rating A project developed by McLaughlin & Harvey has achieved the highest available BREEAM rating.

A new campaign has been launched to encourage people to consider a career in construction in an effort to fill more than 220,000 new jobs that will be created in the sector. The ‘Go Construct’ initiative comes as research shows four people in five wish they had received more advice and guidance

Oban Airport access improvements project progresses Work on the first of Argyll and Bute Council’s Lorn Arc projects, a business park access scheme at Oban Airport, is going well.