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A legal challenge over a 103-turbine wind farm in Shetland has been unanimously rejected by the UK Supreme Court. Scottish ministers approved the plan from Viking Energy for a large windfarm in the Central Mainland of Shetland in 2012, but planning consent was set aside in October 2013 when campaign

Council homes plan for Gregory's Girl school site in Cumbernauld

Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Housing in the Countryside policy is an “opportunity not to be missed” to improve the region’s future rural housing stock, Smiths Gore has said. In it response to the council’s consultation on draft supplementary guidance, the chartered surveyors said the pr

Stewart Milne Stewart Milne Group plans to create 250 new jobs during the next 12 months through the growth of its homes and timber systems divisions.

Construction work on a replacement building for Newbattle Community High School has been delayed.

Fiona Hyslop The Scottish Government was informed about the spiralling cost of Dundee's V&A museum nine months before it was revealed to the public, the culture secretary has revealed.

Building work has started on an £8 million private care home in Newton Mearns. Located at the corner of Waterfoot Road and Broom Road East the state-of-the-art home is being built by Marshall Construction Ltd for Meallmore.

Shona Robison Cabinet secretary for health and wellbeing Shona Robison has approved NHS Highland’s “exciting proposals” for the modernisation of its community and hospital services in Badenoch and Strathspey.

(l-r) Roy Douglas, committee member of Muirhouse Housing Association & Douglas Spowart, SME Banking, property team relationship director at Bank of Scotland Springfield hands over Edinburgh homes to Muirhouse

A new construction skills academy has opened in North Lanarkshire. The facility, NL Construction Craft Skills Academy, will provide apprentices with the opportunity to learn from leading experts within the construction industry.

Abington Primary School Plans to construct a new £3.6 million replacement for Abington Primary School and nursery have been given the go-ahead by South Lanarkshire Council.

Mark Percival Mark Percival was recently appointed to the new post of director of property within Hillcrest Housing Association.

Work on a new leisure centre in Irvine is to begin in March after the £20 million construction contract was awarded to Barr Construction.

Housebuilder Barratt has reported its strongest start to the year for sales in Scotland for eight years. The firm said it secured nearly 190 sales in January, up 15 per cent on a year ago, with some of its Scottish sites “selling at twenty per cent above the UK average of 0.58 sales per week per s

Helen Dow Lovell appoints regional sales manager for Scotland