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Moray Council’s planning and regulatory services committee has approved planning applications for 48 homes in Hopeman and 25 affordable homes in Lhanbryde, with a further eight specialist supported housing units. The site to the west of Hopeman will include affordable housing and indications h

Glasgow City Council has unveiled a new four-point plan to inform the regeneration and development of its city centre.

Councillors in Dundee are being asked to approve more than £4 million of repair work after a review of working practices on roofs installed and inspected by council staff over four years found more than 400 did not meet best practices as set out in the British Standards.

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: Mr Stuart Milne

For today's COP26SCN instalment Eildon shares the first-hand experience of tenants after a year and a half of living in its ground-breaking Passivhaus development at St Boswells.

Work to renew the roof at Stirling station has opened a window to the past and unearthed a treasure trove of papers and postcards - some dating back to the First World War.

McGill has been awarded a £212,000 contract to install solar photovoltaic panels at Websters High School and Southmuir Primary School in Kirriemuir. The Dundee-based contractor and renewables expert will carry out the entire project from end to end, with the scoping and design phases being han

An eight-foot-tall giraffe sculpture that will form part of an Edinburgh-wide art trail has been sponsored by CALA Homes (East). The housebuilder is among the first ten sculpture sponsors of Giraffe About Town, the campaign which is taking to the streets of Edinburgh in the summer in support of wild

Members of the Scottish and Northern Ireland Plumbing Employers’ Federation (SNIPEF) can now look forward to greater support thanks to the arrival of a dedicated technical advisor. With steadily increasing technical and employment advice and extra member support to boost apprenticeships and in

SGN Commercial Services has been selected to provide gas measurement entry unit, pipelines and utilities installation and project management services at brewery firm BrewDog’s site at Ellon in Aberdeenshire.

Trade body Homes for Scotland (HFS) has bolstered its executive team with five new appointments. Reflecting the wide-ranging challenges facing its members, the new recruits comprise Liz Hamilton as head of local & regional planning, Richard Lewington as senior planning adviser and 

Aberdeen’s The Archie Foundation Neonatal Unit and Befriend a Child have each received £1,000 as part of Barratt Developments North Scotland’s latest Community Fund giveaway. Each year Barratt Developments, which includes both Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, works with a wide

An updated masterplan for a £100 million golf resort, hotel and spa in the Angus countryside has been submitted to the local authority for planning consent. Developers behind 'The Angus' have said the project represents one of the biggest hospitality investments in Scotland in recent years and

hub South West is leading a Christmas appeal support package to help tackle the disturbing rise in suicides in Scotland.

Sandra Cassels, partner in the commercial litigation team at Morton Fraser, continues our four-part Construction Delay Series, which takes a closer look at legal issues surrounding construction delays. The contract should set out the particular factors which should be taken into account in cons