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The new Wallyford Primary School in East Lothian held its official unveiling yesterday following an £18.9 million build programme. Cabinet secretary for education and skills and Deputy First Minister, John Swinney MSP, joined East Lothian Council’s cabinet member for education and childr

A developer which had permission to transform a disused Aberdeen office block into a hotel will instead deliver flats at the city centre site. Mandale Construction North had initially proposed to develop the Custom House, on the corner of Guild Street and Stirling Street, into a 105-bedroom hotel.

Pioneering research which links the design of a healthcare facility to patients’ wellbeing has been incorporated into a Glasgow hospice. Designed by international design practice Ryder Architecture, The Prince & Princess of Wales Hospice is the first palliative care facility in the UK to f

Landmark legislation which provided a legal basis for real burdens following the abolition of feudal tenure is too difficult to apply in practice and should be reformed, the Scottish Law Commission has said. The legal reform body has published a new report recommending the replacement of section 53

A new finance scheme which could pave the way for the enabling infrastructure necessary to kick-start new development in Glasgow has been approved by the local authority. Glasgow City Council said the proposed Tax Incremental Finance (TIF) scheme, while smaller in size and level of investment, from

Major projects potentially worth up to £400 million have been announced today as part of a decommissioning services framework for Scotland’s oldest nuclear reactor at Dounreay. Construction of a size reduction facility, shaft and silo decommissioning and demolition of historic active lab

Muir Walker Pride Architects has received planning consent for a new eight-flatted development in the centre of St Andrews  To be delivered on behalf of Headon Developments, the project includes underground car parking.

Road and transport works totalling £10.6 million have been approved for Aberdeen. Boosted by £2.5m of additional funding, the 2019/20 programme includes the resurfacing of carriageways and footways, refurbishing crossings, lighting improvements, pothole repairs, flooding and coastal prot

Lidl GB has confirmed that its new warehouse at Eurocentral, near Motherwell, will be fully operational by November, as it welcomed local politicians and councillors for an exclusive visit to the site. Guests including Neil Gray, MP for Airdrie and Shotts, Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland Re

A former pub landlord who converted his premises into a home for his family must now return the property to a drinking establishment, the local authority has said. Robert Easton-Park ran the Tally Ho pub for 25 years but gave up the licence two years ago due to increased costs and a significant

A Scottish solar company that helped build the UK’s House of the Year has won a new award for energy efficiency at the same property. AES Solar picked up the Best Energy Efficiency in a House Design or Build at the Highlands and Islands Renewables Awards in Inverness last week after being shor

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Major plans to transform Dumbarton’s oldest building into a state of the art library and museum will be considered by councillors next month. The ambitious proposal would also see the existing library at Strathleven Place become a community collections store and archive where the public could

Private housing workloads are upholding growth in the Scottish construction sector, despite political uncertainty, but supply is still falling short, according to the RICS UK Construction and Infrastructure Market Survey, Q1 2019.

A new report has revealed that online retail giant Amazon uses a stringent set of metrics built into its vast dispatch hubs to not only track the performance of workers in the warehouses but to automatically fire them if they fail to meet certain standards.