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Developers behind plans for a new community in Maidenhill, Newton Mearns, are to provide multiple pockets of land to facilitate the delivery of affordable housing as part of a range of newly agreed community benefits. The framework outlining the additional requirements for the development of 834 new

Work on a £2.6 million early years facility in Greenock is to begin this month after the project achieved financial close last week. The new 100-pupil facility will be built on part of the old Greenock Academy site and has been designed so the three nursery playrooms will all look-out over the Rive

Fife Council has lodged a planning application for a proposed £4.5 million extension to a primary school in Kirkcaldy. Under the plans, a new nursery facility will be created at Capshard Primary School along with associated car parking, landscaping and footpaths at the site in Barry Road.

A planning application has been submitted for Inverclyde Council’s new £1.7 million children’s house in Port Glasgow. The existing building on Crosshill Place in Port Glasgow will be demolished while the new children’s house will be built on the existing site.

Graham Construction has hosted 25 young people from across the UK on one of its major projects as part of a skills and employment initiative. The site visit was attended by young people aged between 16 and 17 years, from different corners of the United Kingdom as part of a ‘Built Environment Taste

Heart of Midlothian Football Club has announced that it will not be able to play any home games until November due to construction delays on the club’s new £12 million stand. Despite a “mammoth effort” to complete the Tynecastle project, club owner Ann Budge has confirmed that the targeted Se

Plans have been lodged to transform a derelict Perth school into a £3.5 million arts hub providing work spaces and studios for local artists. Perth and Kinross Council wants to fashion a ‘creative exchange’ within the city’s former St John’s Primary on Stormont Street aimed at nurturing up-

Plans have been submitted for a £6 million housing development on a former hospital site in Arbroath. Chamberlain Bell Developments Ltd has applied to create 49 homes on the 2.2 hectare site of Little Cairnie Hospital in Arbroath, which closed in 2015.

Network Rail is to enable third parties to build and invest in its railway infrastructure projects as part of sweeping new procurement reforms. Network Rail invests almost £130 million in Britain’s railways every week, with over 15,000 live projects on its books.

Scotland’s housebuilding sector is performing well despite the increasing political and economic pressures threatened by Brexit, business and financial advisor Grant Thornton has said. Using statistics obtained from a Homes for Scotland report, Grant Thornton said the industry has become increasin

Construction Scotland Innovation Centre is to officially launch its pioneering Innovation Factory at an industry event next month. The £3 million centre, located at Hamilton International Technology Park in Lanarkshire, will allow anyone within the construction industry to access 30,000 sq. ft. of

Queen to officially open Queensferry Crossing The Queensferry Crossing will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 4 September 2017.

Organisers of the Carbuncle Awards, handed out each year in recognition of Scotland’s “most dismal town”, have said the initiative is to make way for a new prize which looks to take a more “positive” view of the nation’s built environment. The Carbuncles, which launched at the turn of th

A new hub for charging electric vehicles in Dundee has moved a step closer after planners granted permission for the development. Solar canopies, charging points and electrical infrastructure will be built at the site in Princes Street between Dens Street and Lower Princes Street which is currently

The Gordon Highlanders Museum in Aberdeen has lodged plans to create a replica World War I trench in an effort to bring in more visitors, The Press and Journal has reported. Bosses at the venue, which is locked in a battle for survival amid a cash crisis, believe the aboveground addition could help