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Plans by the UK Government to extend new ‘rights’ to alter or replace buildings across England without the need for planning permission risk adding to the country’s already prevalent health and societal inequalities, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has said.

The opportunities and problems facing golf clubs through the eyes of rural property surveyor Donald Yellowley. Bob Dylan’s song might sigh wistfully about A Simple Twist of Fate, but for Scotland’s hundreds of world-class golf clubs, it must seem that the Fates are conspiring against the

The world-renowned Union Chain Bridge, which links Scotland and England over the River Tweed, celebrates its bicentennial this Sunday (26 July).

A Frank Lloyd Wright cottage once slated for demolition in the Chicago suburbs was loaded onto wheeled dollies and rolled about four blocks to its new home. The Booth Cottage, built in 1913 as a temporary home for the architect’s lawyer, Sherman Booth, resided at 239 Franklin Road in Glencoe f

A new hotel with a rooftop bar and city centre ‘hub’ with space for local businesses is planned as part of a proposed redevelopment and refurbishment of the Debenhams store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street.

A planning application has been submitted for a new malt distillery on the historic Hopetoun Estate at Midhope, West Lothian. 

The new owners of Scotia Homes have warned that a reorganisation of the business may lead to redundancies. A source quoted in The Press & Journal said a redundancy consultation has started among a workforce totalling about 190 people with more than 100 jobs on the line.

Preparations are under way for the demolition of a deteriorating footbridge over the M8 to make way for a new crossing to connect the regenerated Sighthill and North Glasgow to the nearby city centre.

As the phased return to construction work progresses, Jon Cooper and Ashley Borthwick explain how the general tone around workplace safety compliance has changed. The construction industry has been hit hard by COVID-19, with large numbers of sites shutting and many workers being furloughed – b

Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has described another overall increase in decision times for housing applications as “hugely frustrating”. Official planning performance statistics for 2019/20 revealed that the average decision time for local development applications was 9.1 weeks, sl

North Lanarkshire Council has hailed the success of the 100 'off the shelf' new build homes which it has purchased directly from housebuilders as part of its Development Pathfinder scheme and is on the lookout for more developers to participate.  By introducing this cost-effective app

Stewart Dalgarno on how offsite construction can play a key role in the safe return to the 'new normal'.

The University of Dundee has been announced as a member of a £16 million consortium designed to drive innovation across major infrastructure projects in the UK.

Alex Orr considers a key planning document being proposed for Edinburgh and what it might mean for developers.

High street shopping units left empty by the collapse of retail businesses should be converted into new homes built by the public sector, according to a report from the Social Market Foundation (SMF).