Angus

A modified draft of the Angus Local Development Plan (ALDP) has been agreed which identifies land for the development of around 330 new homes per annum across the area to 2026. Given the green light by Angus Council this week, the plan also gives continued support for existing sites and brownfield o

The A90/A937 south junction Plans to build a multi-million pound business park in Angus have been given the green light by the Scottish Government.

Revised plans for the expansion of Carnoustie’s multi-million pound golf centre have been given the green light. The ground floor of the extension will have a new entrance and accommodate a golf simulator, member’s golf bag storage area, temporary bag drop area, caddies area and the caddymasterâ

Funding has been agreed this week to allow Caledonia Housing Association to build a significant affordable housing development in Carnoustie. The development on Anderson Street in Carnoustie will comprise of new 24 homes in an enviable position overlooking the golf course. The housing consists of 8

Plans for an anaerobic digester plant with the capacity to produce enough energy for 3,000 homes have been given the green light by Angus Council. The Courier has reported that the Hatton Farm project by Clova Renewables will stretch over almost two hectares to the south of the A92 Dundee to Arbroat

The A90/A937 south junction Angus councillors have given the green light to a multi-million pound Montrose business park after rejecting a Scottish Government planning condition regarding a Laurencekirk transport junction.

The development of a new £39 million Community Campus in Forfar reached an important milestone on Wednesday after contractor Robertson Tayside ‘topped out’ the building. Celebrating the completion of the highest point of the structure, construction will now focus on making the building wind and

DJ Laing group sales director Karen Nicholl was at Forfar Sheriff Court for the verdict Angus civil engineering firm DJ Laing (Contracts) Ltd has been fined £32,000 over an accident that left a 17-year-old employee permanently disfigured and facing arthritis in his legs, The Courier has reported.

Scottish Government ministers have provisionally upheld plans to develop a former psychiatric hospital in Dundee into hundreds of new homes. Plans for Strathmartine Hospital in Baldovan, to the north of Dundee, had originally been approved by Angus Council despite strong opposition from neighbouring

Arbroath’s skyline is being transformed by the multi-million pound replacement of two of the town’s seats of learning at Warddykes and Timmergreens. Angus Council’s children and learning convener, Councillor Sheena Welsh was joined by local councillors and council officers at the Warddykes dev

Work has almost been completed on ten new homes across two sites in Carnoustie and Inverness for Houses for Heroes Scotland. The developments are shortly to be handed over to charity Scottish Veterans Garden City Association (SVGCA) and will soon be occupied by veterans. Both projects are being deli

The cost of an Angus schools project has increased by more than £1.6 million before a brick has been laid. The rising cost of the Arbroath Schools Project will go before councillors at a meeting today, during which the aftershock of Muirfield Contracts’ demise will be felt.

The construction of the new Timmergreens and Warddykes primary schools in Arbroath has been delayed by around six weeks because of a contractual issue with a contractor. Work on the £11 million project to replace the schools will now start in March.

An Arbroath quarry operator has been fined for serious safety failings after a dumper truck driver died when his vehicle reversed over a stop block to the quarry floor below. Joseph Troup, 76, from Forfar, had worked for D Geddes (Contractors) Ltd at its Hatton Mill Quarry in Kinnell, Froickheim for

A £5 million hydro scheme for one of Scotland’s most protected natural sites has been given the green light by Angus councillors.