Edinburgh

Sixty jobs are to be created as budget hotel chain Travelodge moves to open new hotels in Glasgow and Edinburgh as part of a £100 million expansion plan. The firm is searching for a further 10 hotel sites close to the UK’s biggest conference and event venues.

Royal Bank of Scotland has today officially released for sale its former office and data centre site at Dundas Street in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Branded ‘New Town North’, the 5.89 acre plot is the largest site to be sold in the city for more than a decade and is expected

Plans to deliver Scotland’s first purpose-built film and TV studio on the outskirts of Edinburgh appear to have suffered a major blow following a ruling by the Scottish Land Court. Farmer Jim Telfer had faced eviction from his smallholdings at Damhead where Scottish Ministers formally granted plan

Drum Property Group has revealed high levels of public support for its planning application which is set to transform Stead’s Place, near the foot of Leith Walk. More than 2,000 letters of support for Drum’s development proposals have been lodged with the City of Edinburgh Council in adv

Stonemason apprentices (from left) Ben Nicolson, Jack Jeffrey, Lawrence Schofield, Liam McKenzie and Ben Taylor A new Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) partnership has been launched in Edinburgh to help meet the demand for stonemasonry skills to protect and preserve Scotland’s iconic bui

Edinburgh Park Work on plans to transform around 43 acres of land south of Edinburgh Park into a £500 million ‘urban quarter’ is set to start within weeks after councillors approved the first phase of the project.

Work to transform the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh is finally set to get underway after modifications brought delays to the project. The redevelopment, which is now set to cost £22 million, will create a new suite of galleries that will be directly accessible from the adjoining Princes St

Plant dealer Scot JCB has launched a new depot in Edinburgh that is more than six times the size of its predecessor. Located in Sighthill, approximately five miles west of the city centre and a quarter of a mile from existing Scot JCB depot, the brand new facility follows a massive investment by the

Jacobs has been awarded a contract to help develop the strategy, delivery plan and detailed business case for the transformation of Edinburgh city centre. The City of Edinburgh Transformation Programme is a multi-million-pound investment to improve community, economic and cultural life in the capita

Edinburgh is due to outstrip Glasgow within the next 15 years to become Scotland’s biggest city, the chief executive of the Scottish capital’s council has said. In the opening keynote presentation at a Built Environment Networking event, Andrew Kerr said that Edinburgh’s population is due to g

George Watson's College ISG has been appointed to deliver the first phase of George Watson’s College’s multi-million-pound campus masterplan.

Duddingston House Properties' revised hotel plans for the historic site A six-week public inquiry which will determine the future of Edinburgh’s Royal High School is to begin today.

Revised plans to transform a former Edinburgh high school into housing have been given the green light. The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management sub-committee granted CALA Homes permission for 104 flats to be built at the former Boroughmuir High School as well as a new tenement block

Canonmills Gardens Around 350 flats are to be delivered across two sites in Edinburgh after developers secured more than £40 million in loans.

The structured finance team at Rettie & Co has delivered its second mid market rent (MMR) development at Edinburgh’s Western Harbour with more than 3,000 people applying for the 138 homes on offer. Forth Ports’ Harbour Gateway MMR project, part of the Western Harbour in Edinburgh, offers an