Falkirk

An underused area of Callander Park is set to be transformed into a new all-season cycle skills area and aims to create a gateway to cycling at the heart of Falkirk.

More than 300 residents and local business owners attended Falkirk Council’s masterplan event keen to see a vision of how the town centre could change and develop over the next 20 years. Even before the doors opened at 11am on Thursday, 22 June, a queue of people snaked around Trinity Church.

A £100 million project which is set to deliver new homes, offices, food outlets and leisure facilities in Falkirk is on course to commence next year following the signing of a new development agreement. The move, which comes as joint venture partners Hargreaves Land and Fintry Estates reached

Falkirk Council is to close and sell three offices after investing £1.6 million to transform an empty shell under the main stand of The Falkirk Stadium into modern offices.

Work on the long sought-after Denny Eastern Access Road (DEAR) will start next month after Falkirk Council partnered with a contractor to carry out the work. It is expected the work will last around 10 months and will see a connection running between Broad Street and Glasgow Road.

Another crucial milestone in the Westfield A9/A904 Improvement project has been reached with the approval to appoint Balfour Beatty as the engineering contractor. The decision taken by councillors at yesterday's meeting of the executive cements Falkirk Council's commitment to the ambitious project,

Falkirk councillors will be asked to approve the appointment of a contractor to undertake the major Westfield A9/A904 improvement works. If the green light is given at the executive on Tuesday, 13 June, then Balfour Beatty will begin work over the summer to widen carriageways, build major crossing p

Councillors have agreed to purchase Callendar Square and use the site to build the replacement town hall to serve the Falkirk area.

Two of Falkirk Council’s arts venues have recently seen an upgrade thanks to an investment of £90k in both Grangemouth and Bo’ness Town Halls. New truss systems have been installed at both venues (a motorized system in Grangemouth and a manual hoist in Bo’ness). The work at G

Councillors are set to make a decision on whether to purchase Callendar Square as the site for the replacement of the town hall in Falkirk. A report to a special meeting of Falkirk Council has put forward the High Street retail and leisure centre as its preferred location, as well as providing indic

Falkirk Council has approved revised plans for the A9/A904 Westfield project to create an improved road network in place of the initially planned pedestrian bridge.

Falkirk Council is to consider revised plans for the Westfield development after significantly increased construction costs made the iconic pedestrian bridge unaffordable.

Developers looking to deliver a mixed-use development which includes 453 houses in the village of Banknock have presented more information to Falkirk Council.

Multi-utilities provider Arc-Tech MU has commenced works at a new, large-scale residential development in Hallglen.

Council house rents and housing investment will be discussed at a meeting held by Falkirk Council later this week.