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Fife Council's Cabinet Committee has discussed the eligible projects for UK Government funding and plans to develop a long-term 10-year cultural investment plan.

The Construction Plant-hire Association (CPA) has written to the Secretary of State for Transport, Mark Harper, outlining its concerns on embargo times - police enforced movement orders which are preventing the movement of construction plant and equipment at the beginning and end of the day.

Sustainable technology firm, Recycl8, has completed its first commercial project with Port of Aberdeen. The Aberdeenshire-based company in conjunction with Inverurie Pre-cast was responsible for manufacturing concrete blocks for defence at the South Breakwater of the North Harbour as well as slipway

Following consents for two 30MWp solar farms in Scotland earlier in 20224, greentech is committing further investment and growing its presence in Scotland, with plans for a number of new sites to be announced later this year.

Work to save Midlothian's 300-year-old country villa Mavisbank House is set to begin thanks to a major grant of £5.3 million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund. Campaigners have laboured for decades to save the architectural gem from collapse following a catastrophic fire 50 years ago. I

Plans to build 22 new homes for social rent in Arden have been submitted to Glasgow City Council. AS Homes Scotland Ltd wants to build properties to be let by Glen Oaks Housing Association on the outskirts of the city at Kilmuir Crescent.

After his colleagues at Anderson Bell + Christie (AB+C) completed work on the second phase of the Laurieston development in Glasgow, Alasdair Blair was so impressed by the well-proportioned design and how light and space were so carefully considered, that it wasn’t long before he and his wife

Two major steps forward have been taken in the plans to deliver a brighter future for Hamilton town centre.

The maintenance and improvement of existing council homes remains a key priority in West Lothian Council's Housing Capital budget with approximately £8.2 million to be invested in planned programme work during this financial year from April 2024 until the end of March 2025.

Haventus, the energy transition facilities provider, and owner of Ardersier Port, east of Inverness, has secured a £100 million joint credit facility from the Scottish National Investment Bank (the Bank) and UK Infrastructure Bank (UKIB) with £50m investment from each. The financing foll

Plans have been unveiled for new seafront flats to be delivered on the site of a former children’s cancer home in Prestwick. Ashleigh (Scotland) Ltd wants to develop 40 flats within four blocks at the former Malcolm Sargent House on Links Road.

NHS Tayside has lodged an appeal with the Scottish Government to overturn the refusal of housing development plans for the former Royal Liff Hospital site. In February, Dundee City Council rejected a planning in principle application which sought to convert the land into residential use.

An opportunity exists to build on the “continuity of the commitment and policy of Land Reform” that is shared by a majority of Scotland including a majority in the Scottish Parliament, Michael Russell, chair of the Scottish Land Commission has said. Mr Russell opened his keynot

A long-lost Stone Age 'megastructure' has been discovered on the floor of the Baltic Sea.

A new secondary school for Rosyth came one step closer this week as Fife councillors approved the final business case for the project. Councillors at a meeting of the council's Cabinet Committee discussed the plans which will see a new state-of-the-art school built on the Fleet Grounds as a replacem