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The Highland Council has agreed detailed costs set out for the West Link and associated sports facilities and to continue to progress the scheme. It is anticipated that almost £4 in economic benefit would be achieved for every £1 spent on building the West Link road alone.

Works to Inverness Premier Inn extension completes Construction works are complete on the extension to the Premier Inn at Inshes Gate Inverness.

The administrators of Muirfield Contracts Ltd have announced they have begun an orderly wind-down of the business following a thorough review of the company’s affairs.

Blair Melville Homes for Scotland has welcomed the news that the first two of eight major planning appeals called in for determination by the Scottish Government have been approved.

Health & Safety Scotland offers visitors the chance to keep up to date with the latest legal issues and trends through its conference programme, which is authored by the British Safety Council. The event takes place at Glasgow’s SECC on 22nd – 23rd April 2015. Forming part of the conference

Steve Wiseman McCarthy and Stone Scotland celebrates top customer satisfaction marks for a record tenth year

New planning guidance in Fife will help regenerate the area and create jobs, according to the council. The new guidance replaces three previous documents and aims to support growth in the region's housebuilding sector.

A CCG apprentice Construction and manufacturing business CCG has won the ‘Excellence in Young People Development’ award at the Lanarkshire Business Excellence Awards.

Annual total return on Scottish Commercial property rose 5.1 per cent during 2014. Figures released in CBRE’s latest Scotland Property Quarterly report also revealed that despite progressive improvement during the first three quarters of last year, returns for the final quarter fell back a little.

Plans for a new £44 million school campus in Tain in Easter Ross were given the green light yesterday from Highland Council. Children aged from three to 18 would receive nursery and school education in new buildings proposed for the site of the current Tain Royal Academy.

Administrators have been called in to Grangemouth-based demolition specialist Masterton Ltd, after a proposal to keep the business was rejected by creditors. Masterton specialised in hazard and asbestos removal, asset recovery, waste management, building demolition and ground engineering.

Administrators appointed to oversee the future of Muirfield Contracts Ltd have warned of "significant" redundancies.

Alex Neil A website designed to modernise the planning system in Scotland has saved an average of £241 for over 100,000 people and businesses since its launch in 2009.

McAleer & Rushe has bagged a hat-trick of hotel wins with a £19m contract to build 146-bedroom Adagio Aparthotel for Artisan Real Estate Investors on its New Waverley regeneration scheme in central Edinburgh.