A plan to protect homes, businesses and communities from flooding has been launched by environment minister Aileen McLeod. The Flood Risk Management plan contains 14 local strategies and proposals for 42 flood protection schemes or engineering works planned for 2016-21 and a range of other flood all
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Plans have been submitted plans to build 54 apartments on a brownfield site at Bell Street in Glasgow. Glasgow Edinburgh Developments is working in conjunction with Grant Stafford Ltd on the project which will also consist of 5,000 square feet of commercial space and over 40 parking spaces.
Plans by Highland Council to demolish a community and family centre in Inverness and replace it with an enhanced £10 million facility have been abandoned following widespread opposition from residents and centre users. Representatives of local organisations met with council officials and elected me
An appeal against the construction of a new Madras College in St Andrews will be heard by the Court of Session in Edinburgh today. A petition raised by St Andrews Environmental Protection Association Limited (Stepal), which questioned the legality of the decision to grant pe
Damon Sansum Family business Springfield Properties has announced a sponsorship partnership with Team GB Taekwondo athlete and Olympic hopeful, Damon Sansum.
Campsie Road, Strathblane: David Frood is joined by children from Strathblane Primary School, community councillors, Councillor Lambie and other representatives from RSHA and contractor CALA Homes Work starts on Stirling homes
And finally… Discovery of 3,400-year-old Canaanite artefacts sparks unusual plan by Israeli builders
The 3,400-year-old remains of an ancient citadel in Israel are to be incorporated into the designs of a high-rise apartment building.
Councillor Willie Young Aberdeen City Council’s finance convener has been reprimanded by watchdogs after he accidentally leaked confidential legal advice about the city’s Marischal Square project.
David Thomas Britain’s biggest house builder Barratt remains confident in its outlook for the full year after it managed to lift completions by 9.4 per cent to 7,626 homes in the first half.
A new visitor attraction in Grantown-on-Spey has been given the go ahead by the Cairngorms National Park Authority (CNPA). The development will see the former Grantown East railway station brought back to life, as well as the creation of a Highland Games demonstration area.
Ground cutting on site are (left to right) David Bolton, associate director, public sector, Barclays; Clyde Valley Housing Association’s vice chairperson Allan Murray and finance director Shirley MacDonald and Alasdair Gardner, regional managing director, commercial banking, Bank of Scotland Clyde
Scotland should set an ambitious new target of generating the equivalent of 50 per cent of its total electricity, heat and transport demand from renewables by 2030, according to industry body Scottish Renewables. Meeting the new goal would require a threefold increase in green energy generation, wit
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS) has once again launched Architect in the Hoose to help homeowners and raise money for the Architects Benevolent Society (ABS). The scheme involves architects offering free, hour-long consultations to the public, in return for a small donation
Jamie Maclennan (CalMax), Gordon Murray (HHP Board), Peter O’Donnell (HHP), Alasdair Mackenzie (HHP Board), Norman Macleod (HHP Board), Cal Mackay (CalMax) Hebridean Housing Partnership begins next phase of house building programme
A millionaire who built a 30ft lighthouse in her garden could be ordered to take it down due to lack of planning permission. Doreen Lofthouse, 85, who made her fortune from Fisherman's Friend, built a scaled-down version of a seaside town's Beach Lighthouse on unused farmland, near her home in Fleet


