News

Demand remained strong in Scotland’s housing market last month, according to the October 2020 RICS Residential Market Survey.

Aberdeenshire property developer Colaren Homes has secured permission for a new office development near Fraserburgh. The developer had already secured permission for a quarry office at Burnthills Farm, two miles west of Fraserburgh, which would have housed two to three staff members.

Dundee City Council has approved plans to build new homes on the former site of Downfield Primary School. Despite concerns over a potential increase in traffic in the area, the planning committee gave plans for 23 new homes to be built near Camperdown Road the go-ahead.

Fife councillors have backed plans to build the £85 million replacement Inverkeithing High School in Rosyth. Fife Council's education and children's services sub-committee voted to back the recommendation from education officers, The Courier reports.

Plans have been submitted to build flats in Springboig in Glasgow. Developers plan to transform existing retail units, on Springboig Road into eight homes near to Glen Avenue.

The Glasgow Institute of Architects (GIA) and Hamilton Mausoleum Trust have named John Kennedy as the winner of the Hamilton Mausoleum & Keeper’s Lodge Design Ideas Competition.

West Dunbartonshire Council is seeking comments from the Scottish Government on a plan to introduce enhanced fire safety measures across the area’s high rise buildings. The proposed programme of further enhancements, including upgrades to window panels in 11 blocks, as well as installation of

Glasgow City Council has rejected plans to convert a rundown pub in The Barras to be turned into a cafe with new flats above it. The proposal concerned the fire-damaged Traders' Tavern located in Stevenson Street at Kent Street which has been derelict for several years.

A skeleton dating back to the Iron Age has been discovered by workmen on a billionaire-owned Highland estate.

The director of a demolition company could be jailed for up to two years after he failed to ensure the safety of a workman who was crushed to death in Buckie almost seven years ago. Stuart Thompson was working for SI Dismantling Ltd to demolish a disused abattoir in Great Western Road

Councillors have voted in favour of plans to build a Holiday Inn hotel on the former Glasgow Garden Festival site at Pacific Quay.

Muir Construction has been invited back by the Ambassador Group to construct two new extensions at its facility within the Alba Campus, which Muir completed in 2008, following a round of successful negotiations. The £5 million project will initially create shell and cores to increase testing l

An Edinburgh construction firm has expanded the business and created new job opportunities with the launch of its new design studio in the New Town. The Blackwell Company opened its premises on East Claremont Street today, bringing together all of the services needed for a residential refurbishment

Work is progressing well on the new £1.5 million state-of-the-art Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) centre in Blackridge.

The Scottish Futures Trust (SFT) has published its new Outcomes report demonstrating the progress it has made in supporting the Scottish Government’s National Performance Framework.  Despite the pandemic, SFT’s work, in collaboration with its many public and private sector partners,