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A new state-of-the-art campus which enables three schools to co-locate in a modern and collaborative learning environment has opened its doors in Balloch, West Dunbartonshire. The £16 million campus, which represents a major investment in the education offering in the area, has been delivered by Mo

A decision on the proposed redevelopment of Aberdeen’s Union Terrace Gardens has been delayed to allow councillors to carry out a site visit. LDA Design submitted a raft of refinements to its plans in November following feedback from the public and Aberdeen City Council planners had recommende

GVA has announced the sale of a residential development site in the heart of Glasgow’s west end on behalf of a private client to Queensberry Properties Ltd. The site has a detailed planning consent for 45 apartments and four townhouses and is located on Otago Lane, benefitting from an excellent ou

Developers are on course to serve up a tasty treat for Dalkeith with plans for a £2 million development of a Starbucks coffeehouse and a KFC drive-thru restaurant. London & Scottish Developments has applied for planning permission for two buildings on the 1.5 acre site on land adjoining the Tes

The expected opening of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) project has been deferred until Autumn 2018 – six months later than planned, economy secretary Keith Brown has confirmed. The consortium tasked with delivering the £745 million project Aberdeen Roads Limited (ARL) said the impac

The developer behind plans for 299 private rented flats and a public promenade at Aberdeen’s Rubislaw Quarry has submitted the application for planning. Toronto-based developer Carttera also wants to deliver a gym, and a “heritage bistro” at disused the quarry, which will host a permanent exhi

A new deal between developer The EDI Group and housebuilder Taylor Wimpey is set to regenerate a key brownfield site in Edinburgh with 169 new homes for the capital. Taylor Wimpey has submitted an application with detailed plans to build a mix of private apartments and terraced and detached houses a

Lynsey Reid outlines the “agent of change” principle in planning policy. On 16 February 2018 researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Newcastle and Turku in Finland published the UK’s first live music venue census. The survey found that 29% of small music venues (defined as those with l

Redpath wins East Kilbride shopping centre project Redpath Construction has been appointed to deliver a landlord strip out and retail unit sub-division at East Kilbride shopping centre for EK Devco Ltd.

Clark Contracts is on site completing the construction of a new Lidl supermarket on Easter Road in Leith, the contractor’s seventh project for the retailer. The new steel-framed store will be the first Lidl ‘Metropolitan’ supermarket in Scotland with the store being raised to provide parking s

M&E contractor and installer Arc-Tech (Scotland) Ltd is progressing well on the installation of the mechanical & electrical services on three education projects. Undertaken on behalf of hub West Scotland and Inverclyde Council, each project will receive an extensive suite of mechanical &

Miller Homes has achieved five stars for customer satisfaction in the Home Builders Federation (HBF) National New Home Customer Satisfaction Survey. This is the sixth time in seven years that the homebuilder has achieved five stars in the independent survey, which was launched by the HBF to provide

Dunedin Canmore marks start of work on 70 affordable homes for rent in Edinburgh A major regeneration project in Edinburgh has taken another step forward with work starting on 70 new affordable homes.

MPs investigating the collapse of Carillion have accused the company’s Board of being “focused on their own pay packets” at the expense of its perilous financial situation as it emerged that the firm had set out “highly restricted circumstances” in which bonuses could be clawed back from d

Special Branch officers from the Metropolitan Police passed information to a controversial network that blacklisted construction workers, Scotland Yard has confirmed. The admission follows a campaign by blacklisted workers to prove they were spied on by the police.