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Planning permission has been granted for a new 60-bedroom residential care facility in Dundee. Work on the new facility, to be set in the grounds of Wellburn House on Liff Road, will begin in 2017.

Plans to develop the former Triple Kirks site in the heart of Aberdeen into a world-class new accommodation facility for academics have been approved. The derelict church has lain empty for many years, and the 13-storey project will include 175 studio flats and 166 en-suite rooms.

Plans have been unveiled to build the UK’s next mega tower, which will rival the Shard for the title of the tallest building in Europe, and will dwarf all other office blocks in the City of London. The 73-floor skyscraper at 1, Undershaft, will be 309.6m high when completed, making it on a par wit

Pinsent Masons lands role on £400m Aberdeen Harbour project Aberdeen Harbour has appointed Pinsent Masons as legal adviser for its proposed Harbour Expansion Project.

A new energy centre is to be built at Ninewells Hospital in Dundee as part of a £15.4 million programme of energy efficiency measures for NHS Tayside. The centre will provide 90 per cent of the power and 100 per cent of the heat for Ninewells, which also houses Tayside Children’s Hospital and Mag

A Scottish construction firm has been fined after falling materials struck a worker and killed him during refurbishment work at a retail unit. J B Barbour and Co, of Lawmoor Street, Dixons Blazes Industrial Estate, Glasgow pleaded guilty to breaching Section 2 (1) and Section 3 (1) of the Health and

A new £40 million cinema and performing arts theatre is to be built in the heart of Paisley to spearhead the town’s bid to be UK City of Culture in 2021. The Paisley Community Trust is behind proposals to create the 500-seat main theatre, five cinema screens, a cafe bar, restaurant, educational h

The Scottish Government is to call-in plans for a £140 million film and television studio development in Midlothian after a U-turn by ministers. Developer PSL Land Ltd had requested its proposal was examined by ministers after it claimed the local authority had failed to decide on the campus within

Engineers are working towards having the Forth Road Bridge open to traffic in the first week of January, it has been confirmed. Bridge operator Amey said the date of January 4 was dependent on the weather, but said the work was on track. Seven days were needed for the assessment and design of the re

Over a quarter of the bridge deck is now in place on the Queensferry Crossing with a year to go before opening. The operation to lift the 750 tonne deck sections into place began in September and 36 are now installed out of the total of 122, meaning 29.5 per cent of the deck is now in place.

Work on a £30 million Perth city centre regeneration project could begin as early as next year, according to developers behind the plans. Designed by Holmes Miller, the Mill Quarter development will comprise of restaurants and bars, speciality shops, a cinema, gyms, housing, and a multi storey car

CBC begins £4.5m Russell Institute restoration Work is underway on a £4.5 million project to restore a former health centre in Renfrewshire.

A young woman in Russia has decided to take road repairs into her own hands after getting frustrated by the number of potholes in her city. Veronika Bobrus, a 26-year-old florist, became an overnight celebrity in Omsk, southern Siberia, after a dashcam video of her filling a pothole at night was pos

Not satisfied with insulting Muslims and Mexicans, offending women and mocking the disabled, US presidential hopeful Donald Trump has now fallen foul of Aberdeenshire Council’s planning rules. The National has revealed that the council has ruled that two 24-metre flagpoles erected by the property

Proposals for a multi-million pound sustainable new community at Corton in South East Ayr have been given a major boost with the approval of Delegated Powers to Approve the supermarket and associated infrastructure, subject to conditions. The unanimous decision by the Regulatory Panel of South Ayrsh