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Plans for a £6.5 million research and innovation campus in Stromness in Orkney are set to go ahead after the two organisations behind the venture agreed funding for the project. The 3.75-acre campus will support the growth of existing research and innovation activity and the expansion of companies

Stefano Smith RTPI Scotland convenor Stefano Smith sets out his plans for 2017

Midlothian councillors have been urged to turn an eyesore into an asset by granting planning permission for a Home Bargains store on a vacant plot of land beside the Tesco Superstore store in Dalkeith. The application for the £3 million 17,500 sq ft development, which would create 20 construction j

Ian Hutchison 2017 promises to be another year of growth and expansion for Jarvie Plant with the hire businesses set to open its first depot in England.

National engineering specialist SES Engineering Services has secured a £5 million mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) contract on Edinburgh University’s £25m project to establish a world-leading Data Technology Institute. Working alongside main contractor McLaughlin and Harvey, SES will pr

Culture secretary Fiona Hyslop has today confirmed a £6.6 million capital boost to support investment in conservation work, repairs and visitor facilities at several of Scotland’s iconic heritage sites and monuments. The announcement follows the publication today of the most comprehensive conserv

Flats plan for Aberdeen church Plans have been unveiled to demolish part of an Aberdeen church to form a block of 20 flats.

A Chinese woman desperate to guard her property waved her soiled sanitary pad at the demolition team to stop them from bulldozing her home by force, the Daily Mail has reported. Her self-defence tactic apparently worked as the uniformed construction workers retreated from her house, as a social medi

The £4m Strathview Rise development being constructed by Hadden near Forfar Perthshire construction group Hadden has declared a “satisfactory” year of trading after posting an increase in turnover and profits.

Developers are ready to press ahead with the first phase of a 1,500-home project in Oudenarde near Perth, 20 years on from when it was first mooted. Perthshire developer GS Brown Construction has teamed up with Taylor Wimpey to submit an initial planning application for 159 two, three and four bedro

Graham Simpson Scottish Government officials have been accused of meddling in local democracy after new figures revealed they overrule councils on planning appeals as often as they side with them.

Alan Brown MP Kilmarnock and Loudoun MP Alan Brown has won praise from small construction firms in Scotland and south of the Border for his stance on the issue of cash retentions in the industry.

Proposals have been unveiled to expand Sir Andy Murray’s Cromlix House hotel in Perthshire. The plans include 30 new rooms, a spa, treatment rooms, staff accommodation, a 200-capacity conference and events area, and a gym designed by the world number one tennis star himself.

Plans for a new waste incinerator which could help to heat homes and businesses have been submitted to Dundee City Council. The proposals from MVV Environment Services Ltd, which intends to take over the running of the site from the council-owned firm DERL, would see a new energy-from-waste facility

The Cuprum building in Glasgow Glasgow’s office market saw a robust level of activity in 2016, despite political and economic uncertainty, according to analysis from Knight Frank.