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Hillcrest Housing Association is set to begin a 119 new home development programme costing £13 million in Dundee’s City Quay next month.

The University of St Andrews has embarked on a £3.75m energy conservation overhaul to reduce its carbon footprint by 950 tonnes a year and save £650,000, a year in operating costs.

Plans for the creation of a tourist resort worth £60 million to be built next to Gleneagles hotel have been revealed. Developers are drawing up plans for nearly 200 bespoke lodges across 60 acres of land just north of the five-star hotel.

Avison Young has expanded its transactional team in Scotland following five new appointments, three of which are into senior roles. Douglas Wood and Ben Farrell, both previously with Montagu Evans, will form the Glasgow arm of the Avison Young investment capability as director and associate respecti

Brodies partner Neil Collar outlines how retirement living is addressed in the Planning (Scotland) Bill, which received Royal Assent last month. Retirement living – meeting the housing needs for older people – is addressed in the plan-making provisions in the Planning (Scotland) Bill.

The publication of an Audit Scotland review of the payments made to contractors working on the scandal hit Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Young People in Edinburgh leaves more questions than answers, Scottish Labour has warned.  The audit was completed before the ventilation issues with t

A former disused building on Ardrishaig's waterfront has been redeveloped and reopened in the first stage of a regeneration of the area.

A man has admitted his involvement in an £86,000 forklift ram-raid on a Co-op store in the border town of Gretna.

Bancon Construction has secured a raft of new contracts worth more than £20 million, including significant wins in Inverness. The company has been awarded affordable housing contracts in Inverness with Albyn Housing for 46 units at Torbreck and 36 units at Kinmylies for Highland Council, as we

Morgan Sindall Construction has handed over a new £20 million state-of-the health and care centre in Glasgow city centre.

Housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel has secured approval for 88 new family homes in Drymen, of which a significant number will be affordable properties for rent and possibly sale.

The construction of a new Lidl supermarket in Dumbarton, with 1,325m2 sales area, is to be undertaken by Clark Contracts.

West Lothian Council has approved plans for a new primary school to be built at Calderwood, East Calder.

East Dunbartonshire Council has unveiled proposals to demolish properties at Nithsdale Crescent in Bearsden to make way for new affordable homes.

New fire safety regulations under consideration by the UK Government could undermine existing qualifications that currently ensure contractors are qualified and competent to carry out work in their field, the trade body for Scotland’s electrical industry has warned. In its response to the &lsq