East Lothian

East Lothian Council’s planning committee met yesterday to consider a number of planning applications.

Simply UK signalled the start of construction for a £15 million care home and retirement living development in North Berwick with a ground-breaking ceremony last week.

Four historic communities across Scotland will benefit from a combined investment of more than £4.5 million from Historic Environment Scotland (HES) to preserve built heritage and stimulate economic regeneration.

The team behind the 390-acre Blindwells development in East Lothian has unveiled its latest residential development opportunity.

Taylor Wimpey East Scotland has acquired land at St Clements Wells to allow a further development of 235 new homes close to its Ravensheugh development in Wallyford.

Work has started on the first new homes to be built at the development in East Lothian with more good news to come later this year, according to developer Hargreaves Land. Blindwells, which is located less than 10 miles east of Edinburgh, has outline planning permission for 1,600 homes. Hargrea

Plans for a £46 million new high school at Wallyford have been submitted to East Lothian Council to serve the raft of new homes in the area.

A new proposal has emerged for an F1-style racing circuit based on the Albert Park Circuit in Melbourne at a site on the East Lothian coast.

Construction has completed on East Lothian’s newest primary school and the building is due to be formally handed over to the council today.

Network Rail has submitted planning applications for new railway stations in East Linton and Reston.

Plans to develop a new care village at Inveresk in Musselburgh have been approved by East Lothian Council’s planning committee.

A Dunbar brewery company has been fined £10,000 after admitting discharging caustic effluent into a sewer which caused damage to a waste water treatment works.

The East Lothian Community Hospital in Haddington has now been handed over to NHS Lothian and the East Lothian Health and Social Care Partnership after the final phase of the project was completed by its development partner hub South East. Built by Morrison Construction, the £69m facility is t

Work on a £5.5 million expansion programme to create new nursery accommodation, new classrooms, a multi-purpose hall and office space at Gullane Primary School is under way.

The first steps in the delivery of a low carbon community at the DunBear Park development in Dunbar have been taken with the submission of plans for roads, footpaths and essential infrastructure, together with the renewable energy submissions to by Hallhill Developments Ltd. The 54.3-acre developmen