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Sixty jobs are to be created as budget hotel chain Travelodge moves to open new hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of a £100 million expansion plan. The firm is searching for a further 10 hotel sites close to the UK’s biggest conference and event venues.

The owners of the Oak Mall shopping centre in Greenock have unveiled plans to demolish a large part of the building to make way for a possible mixed-use development. An application has been submitted to Inverclyde Council to knock down the part of the shopping centre that extends beneath the A78 Hig

East Lothian Council can now proceed with providing land for more than 10,000 new homes after the East Lothian Local Development Plan 2018 (ELLDP 2018) was approved by the Scottish Government. The ELLDP 2018 will be used by the council to help determine all planning applications which are put forwar

Plans to create a shared education and leisure campus in Neilston are being taken forward by East Renfrewshire Council after consultation results revealed support for the proposal. Councillors on the education committee considered the results of a formal six-week consultation into the proposal and a

Dundee’s new V&A museum and Aberdeen’s new Exhibition and Conference Centre, which are both making use of cutting-edge green energy technology, are among the finalists for the 2018 Scottish Green Energy Awards. The shortlist also includes innovative renewable energy schemes in some of Scotla

The National Federation of Roofing Contractors (NFRC) has revealed the shortlist for its awards which recognise outstanding standards of workmanship and technical expertise in the roofing industry within Scotland. Entries were judged by an independent expert panel, with the finalists chosen for exce

The group in the main auditorium with head teacher Stuart Clyde (centre) joining the tour Scotland’s first new school in a generation opened its doors to the public for an access-all-areas tour as part of the annual Doors Open Days festival.

Work begins on new council housing development in Craigmillar Work on a major new housing development at Craigmillar town centre for the City of Edinburgh Council is now underway.

The winners have been announced for a competition which challenged participants to envision a habitat for the first five colonisers on Mars. Volume Zero's Marsception 2018 competition imagined the colonisers undertaking research on the viability of life for the future human generations would live on

The regeneration of a key arterial site in Glasgow city centre has taken a step forward with the submission of a detailed planning application for a 283,000 sq ft Grade A office development by Osborne and Co. The £95 million investment by Osborne will deliver the first major activity on this prime

Development site 12 at Dundee Waterfront Plans have been unveiled for the latest mixed-use development planned for a site within Dundee’s £1 billion Waterfront regeneration project.

A currently neglected building situated at the heart of Glasgow’s Sauchiehall Street is set to be transformed into a prime SME and co-working space. A detailed planning application has been submitted to Glasgow City Council which will see McLellan Works become home to ambitious and creative SM

The redesign of health and social care services on Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross (SLSWR) has moved forward with the submission of a planning application to build a new £15 million community hospital in Broadford. The planning permission for the hospital is part of wider redesign of services th

The £22.3m Diamond Bridge over the River Don opened two years ago A new bridge over the River Don is among a number of potentials options put forward by Aberdeen City Council aimed at improving transport links across the city.

A deal has been struck between landowner Simon Howie and waste to energy developer CoGen which removes any time constraints in which to deal with the planning application for the waste to energy plant adjacent to the A8 at Carnbroe in Coatbridge. Howie’s company Shore Energy received full panning