Dumfries And Galloway

A Place Plan for Stranraer has been prepared following extensive consultation with residents. Dumfries and Galloway Council agreed in 2021 that five places across Dumfries and Galloway should be included in the Borderlands Place Programme as part of the Borderlands Inclusive Growth Deal. The five pl

Dumfries and Galloway Council is set to chart the course for sustainable housing development for tears to come with the agreement of its Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP).

Last year Dumfries and Galloway Council injected more than £56 million into the local economy through supply chain spending, with the construction sector being the largest beneficiary. Overall, more than 30% of all council suppliers were locally based and more than 50% based within Scotland.

Collective Architecture has been granted planning permission to transform the former George Hotel in Stranraer into a new community facility.

Network Rail has submitted a planning application to make Dumfries station more easily accessible for passengers.

Dumfries residents will get the first chance to see the proposed plans for accessibility improvements within the town’s railway station.

Aitken Turnbull Architects has breathed fresh life into one of south-west Scotland’s flagship arts and community hubs.

A former nightclub in Fife which was destroyed by a fire over the weekend is to be demolished due to safety concerns. A blaze broke out at the derelict building, which formerly housed Maxwell’s, on Wellesley Road, Methil at around 2.30pm on Sunday.

A Welsh civil engineering firm has showcased its expertise and adaptability by successfully delivering the 10-turbine phase two of Sandy Knowe Wind Farm in Scotland after the previously appointed contractor went into administration. Jones Bros Civil Engineering UK stepped in to carry out the work at

Almost 300 households in Dumfries will benefit from lower energy bills after Riverside Scotland secured £1.5 million of funding to make their homes more energy efficient. The seven-figure investment will see 294 homes, which were built almost a century ago, benefit from significant energy effi

Following a comprehensive master planning process, Collective Architecture has now submitted The Ladyfield Masterplan and the associated technical studies to Dumfries and Galloway Council to consider the next steps.

Works will begin next week as Loreburn Housing Association gets the first stage of a flagship development for Langholm, Dumfries and Galloway underway. The first phase of housing will see 35 ‘extra care’ units being built. The scheme design features bungalows around a centralised communi

INCH Architecture has delivered a new multi-million-pound dedicated state-of-the-art campus for the University of West of Scotland (UWS) alongside Dumfries and Galloway College. The state-of-the-art development, co-located with Dumfries & Galloway College, has been designed with the specific int

Plans to save the only farm built by the poet Robert Burns are unveiled today. The “FutureVision” seeks to safeguard the 170-acre Ellisland Farm, on the banks of the River Nith, where Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne, Tam o Shanter and a large part of his creative output, especially in music a

CCG (Scotland) and Wheatley Homes South are to transform a former logistics yard in Locharbriggs into a new development of 89 homes for social rent.