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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

New Gorbals Housing Association’s newest homes in Laurieston have been named in the top 100 buildings of the century, and shortlisted for the Scotstyle architecture award. The Scotstyle list, which features buildings from 1916 right up to the present day, has been compiled by Royal Incorporation o

Scottish Enterprise has opened entries to a competition for businesses in Scotland’s construction sector with aspirations to collaborate. The aim of the Collaboration Prize 2016/17 is to encourage firms to think collaboratively and pitch an idea for a new collaborative enterprise that will help th

Clydebank’s new Care Home and Day Care Centre plans on show Residents are being invited to view proposals and give their feedback on designs of the new Clydebank Care Home and Day Care Centre due to be built in the Health Quarter at Queens Quay.

The team leading the complex restoration of the Glasgow School of Art (GSA) Mackintosh Building are to study Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s original drawings for the building. Built between 1897 and 1909, the building is considered to be the greatest masterpiece of the celebrated architect.

East Ayrshire primary and childhood centre takes shape Future pupils of Whatriggs Primary and Early Childhood Centre joined Councillor Douglas Reid for an official ground breaking ceremony at the East Ayrshire project.

A primary school in East Ayrshire was forced to close after part of a classroom collapsed into a classroom last week. The rubble was discovered at Hurlford Primary School on Friday morning, with the head teacher believing the damage to have been sustained overnight.

The introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in Scotland should be postponed until April 2018 amid growing evidence that not enough businesses are prepared for the tax, the Scottish Chambers of Commerce (SCC) said today. The SCC has called on the UK government to consider the postponement after accus

A new application for the multi-million pound transformation of the Eastgate mall and Falcon Square in the centre Inverness has been submitted.