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A Perth housebuilding firm is confident that the buoyant local property market will support its plans to build almost 900 homes in the next six to eight years, alongside a new head office.

The developer behind plans to build a modern 62-bedroom care home near Fairmilehead in Edinburgh has failed in a bid to gain approval on appeal amid "serious concerns" about the scale of the development and potential harm to a conservation area.

Two Aberdeen townhouses are to be converted and extended to provide 14 new apartments, under new plans lodged with the local authority.

The remediation works on the derelict former Shell Oil refinery in Ardrossan will begin in the coming weeks. North Ayrshire Council this week confirmed that Sanctus Ltd - which has worked on numerous brownfield and infrastructure programmes across the UK – has been awarded the £3 million

Network Rail has submitted an application for listed building consent for a new bridge to make Pitlochry station fully accessible for passengers.

Bus services have resumed at Peterhead’s transport interchange following the completion of a series of improvements to the facility.

A ‘bee bank’ has been installed next to a repaired sink hole in Ayrshire as part of efforts to enhance biodiversity on and near the railway.

Progress continues at Port Glasgow station where a 90-tonne steel structure was craned in last weekend.

Building products supplier Marshalls is to cut around 250 jobs and close a factory in Carluke in response to "challenging trading conditions".

Projects in Aberdeenshire and the Humber have been chosen as the third and fourth carbon capture usage and storage (CCUS) clusters in the UK.

A man has been ordered to demolish a five-bedroom home that was built without planning permission after failing to convince planners that refusing his application breached his human rights.

The Scottish Plant Owners Association (SPOA) has launched two new training courses in response to increased challenges in plant hire.

Thai state petroleum company PTTEP has joined a collaborative green technology initiative based in Scotland, aimed at demonstrating the potential of wave-powered subsea equipment. The project, dubbed Renewables for Subsea Power (RSP), includes a £2 million demonstrator initiative which is curr

The co-founders of architecture studio HAUS Collective have set off on a 532-mile charity bike ride from Glasgow to Berlin to mark ten years of practice.

The widow of a man who died falling through a fragile roof while carrying out maintenance work has been allowed to proceeded to a hearing on the evidence after a dispute over the nature of his employment arose.