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Glencairn Properties is to submit plans to turn a former iconic Art Deco cinema in Edinburgh into a residential development of around 37 apartments. The State Cinema in Leith closed in 1972 and has since been used as a bingo hall, a nightclub and church.

Councils in Tayside have lost a legal bid to win damages from a local quarry merchant they claim supplied faulty materials for roadworks. Tayside Contracts, the commercial trading arm of Angus, Dundee and Perth & Kinross councils, raised an action at the Court of Session in Edinburgh following a

Planning permission in principle for a new 1,500-home development in the Cairngorms National Park has been extended for a further three years following a Section 42 application to vary a condition of the previously granted consent.

Drum Property Group is to deliver 220 apartments in Finnieston Drum Property Group is targeting growth after agreeing an additional £17.5 million finance package with Royal Bank of Scotland.

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has successfully recruited a new cohort of lawyers to its construction adjudicator panel. Shona Frame (CMS Cameron McKenna LLP), Richard Silver (Silver Shemmings LLP), Brandon Malone (Brandon Malone & Co), Peter Aeberli (3 Paper Buildings), Ken

Stuart Nicholson, loan investments director at Scottish Widows, LAR chairman Andrew Robertson, housing minister Kevin Stewart and Alan Brennan, relationship director at Bank of Scotland Commercial Real Estate LAR Housing Trust secures ‘game-changing’ £65m funding boost

An architect from Edinburgh is hoping to be crowned the next winner of Channel 4’s Great British Bake Off. The Scotsman reports that the 29-year-old, known only as Tom, lives in the Capital with his partner David, and often makes shortbread for his relatives and friends.

Plant, tool and equipment hire specialist GAP Group has achieved record annual turnover and its second-highest-ever profits as it reaps the rewards of diversification and expansion. The Glasgow firm, which is run by brothers and major shareholders Douglas and Iain Anderson, achieved an 11% jump in t

Leo Quinn Balfour Beatty has revealed that it is likely to vote against the continuation of the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) because of a “fundamental weakness” in the training body.

Pictured with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon are (from left) GHA chair Bernadette Hewitt, retired tram conductress Catherine Mulrine, GHA tenant Marilyn Cunningham and Joe Murray who secured a job on the Govan site Affordable homes provider Wheatley Group has secured a further £65 million of privat

A new report by Dundee City Council planners has identified a series of sites across the city to accommodate more than 5,200 new homes. Forming part of a major long-term planning strategy for the city, the report includes larger housing sites such as 400 properties at Dykes of Gray as part of the We

(from left) Calum Murray, CCG; Ed Monaghan, Mactaggart & Mickel; Lord Leuitenant Eva Bolander; John Gallacher, Cruden; Martin Kiely, WH Malcolm City Legacy Homes, the consortium that built the Athletes’ Village for the 2014 Commonwealth Games, has been honoured by the city to celebrate winning

South Lanarkshire Council has received further reassurance about the four schools in the region where aluminium composite cladding was used in their construction. It was revealed last month that as many as 44 schools across Scotland contain the type of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding rep

The new apprentices with managing director Gordon Cunningham Eleven new trade apprentices have started their careers with construction, refurbishment and maintenance contractor Clark Contracts.

UNESCO plaque unveiled for the Forth Bridge Transport minister Humza Yousaf has unveiled a plaque to commemorate the awarding of World Heritage Status to the Forth Bridge – the first of the three bridges which spans three centuries of history across the Firth of Forth.