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A plan to convert a former Perth psychiatric hospital into flats has taken a step forward with the submission of an application for listed building consent.

The UK Collaborative Centre for Housing Evidence (CaCHE) has announced that zero carbon buildings minister Patrick Harvie MSP, Glasgow City Council leader Susan Aitken, and Scottish Funding Council chairman Mike Cantlay OBE will be key speakers at its upcoming conference “Beyond Niddrie Road:

A student accommodation provider is seeking planning permission to convert a former office block on Aberdeen's Union Street.

A former hospital in St Andrews is to be transformed into 27 flats.

Heriot-Watt University Chemical and Energy Engineering Graduate, Steven Brasher from Dalgety Bay, celebrated the delivery of his first large-scale solar project at Denny Waste Water Treatment Works. More than £660,000 was invested by Scottish Water to install over 830 solar panels at the works

A new scheme to support the local construction industry recruit and sustain suitably skilled employees has got off the ground in Orkney. The industry, in common with many other sectors, have been finding it difficult to recruit and this is another tool designed to help.

Brechin High School is securing a lease of land from Scotia Homes to develop an allotment and food forest for the school and local community to offer rural learning and improve wellbeing and sustainability opportunities.

Aberdeenshire Architectural and Landscape Design Awards (AALDA) were established in 1997 as a means of raising the profile of good innovative design. Taking place every two years, the awards provide a benchmark for the quality of recent development and the effectiveness of planning policies.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has donated a public access defibrillator (PAD) to a convenience store in Bathgate and its customer Cameron Clark, who around 12 months ago started a campaign to install and maintain an external defibrillator outside the Usave Shop on Falside Crescent to benefit the commu

A homeowner who spent five years building a secret underground cavern in his garden despite not having planning permission may have to demolish the structure. Now an application for retrospective permission for the cavern has been made by the resident in Sefton, who is creating the garden structure

RESIDENTIAL – TEN UNITS OR MORE Applicant: JKR Contractors Ltd 

Integrated engineering design, energy, and sustainability consultancy Hydrock has secured a pivotal role in the latest phase of the transformative redevelopment of Pitlochry Festival Theatre. Situated on the banks of the Tummel, and Scotland's largest of its kind, the cultural gem is renowned for it

Springfield Properties has announced sponsorship of amateur Highland golfer Summer Elliot to help her achieve her ambitions of turning professional. From Inverness, 17-year-old Summer Elliot first started golfing at the age of eight and is the number 1 Junior girl in the Scottish Golf Order of Merit

Joint administrators from PwC for Wilkinson Hardware Stores Ltd, along with its subsidiaries wilko Ltd and wilko.com Ltd, have confirmed the closure of two Scottish stores – Irvine and Clydebank – resulting in a loss of 38 jobs.

The funicular railway at Cairngorm Mountain near Aviemore could be back in service before the end of this month. The popular 2km ride between the Cairngorm base station and the UK’s highest restaurant was withdrawn on Friday 25 August to enable a series of snagging works to be carried out.