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Photographs have been discovered which show the construction of a Victorian sewerage system which has served Aberdeen for more than 100 years. The images date from 1900 and 1901 and highlight the dirty and often dangerous work of the men sent underground to burrow out the Girdleness Outfall Scheme.

Theme park operator Flamingo Land has been selected as the preferred developer for a £30 million holiday resort project in Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park. The company was appointed by Scottish Enterprise to take forward proposals for its 20 hectare site at West Riverside in Balloch.

Plans for a hotel and restaurant on the outskirts of Peterhead have been approved by Aberdeenshire Council. The Buchan Gateway scheme at the Invernettie roundabout was first mooted in 2003 when developers hoped the site would become a location for shops, including a supermarket and a petrol station.

Plans have been submitted to transform a 1970s Dundee office block into a hotel with serviced holiday apartments and a rooftop restaurant. Assurance Developments’ proposals for 5 Whitehall Crescent consist of 3 storeys of serviced holiday apartments, 2 storeys of hotel bedrooms and a rooftop resta

Elderpark Housing Association is to transform a former Govan school into new offices after the sale of the site was approved by Glasgow City Council. The local authority’s executive committee gave the green light to the £283,743 sale of the former Hill's Trust School in Govan from City Property (

New College Lanarkshire and Amey put young people on road to success A group of young people are taking their first steps on the road to success through a winning partnership between New College Lanarkshire and Amey.

Miller Homes has announced it plans to continue its “substantial” land investment programme after the firm unveiled a 66 per cent rise in interim profits. "Buoyant" market conditions helped the Edinburgh-based group towards a profit before tax of £38.2 million for the six months to the end of J

The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice chief executive Rhona Baillie has announced that Balfour Beatty is the contractor for work to build a new home for Glasgow’s Hospice as the first JCB arrived on site at Bellahouston Park. The announcement marked the start of a project to build a state-of-

Grant Thornton has called for wide ranging reforms, including greater tax simplification, to boost growth in Scotland’s fragile property and construction sector. The business and financial adviser has welcomed recent action by the Scottish Government designed to boost the sector, including simplif

The owners of the former Paton’s Mill site in Johnstone have lodged plans where detailed consent is sought to create retail and leisure facilities on the 10 acre site. 4th Developments (Johnstone) Limited and @sipp (Pension Trustees) Limited have submitted a detailed planning application to create

Reducing the cost of living for tenants and building more affordable homes have been identified as the key elements to a new raft of objectives to improve housing in Edinburgh. A nine-point action plan for the next decade was approved for further consultation by the City of Edinburgh Council’s hea

Structural work complete on £23.8m Clydebank Leisure Centre Councillors and invited guests attended the site of the new multi-million pound Clydebank Leisure Centre to celebrate the next stage in the project’s development.

A previously submitted £100 million plan to expand Crieff Hydro has re-emerged after the hotel decided to re-submit the proposals. A detailed application for the ‘Crieff Hydro East’ project, which would see 200 holiday lodges, a 100-bed care home and assisted-living accommodation for a further

East Dunbartonshire Council has secured a contractor to deliver the final phase of repair works at Holy Family Primary School in Kirkintilloch. Since 2015, the school has been operating out of the former Lairdsland Primary School building in Kerr Street to allow essential structural repairs to be ca

Aberdeenshire Council has approved a grant of £150,000 towards the costs of providing a state-of-the-art sports facility in Fraserburgh. First unveiled when the Fraserburgh South Links Sports Development Trust (SLSDT) lodged plans in July, the £1.2 million project will see the existing football pi