Renfrewshire

More than 150 third year pupils in Renfrewshire got to grips with traditional building skills at a career-building event held outside Paisley Town Hall. Building on Paisley’s historic environment, the event hopes to encourage more young people to get into traditional building crafts as part of

Independent consulting engineer Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA) has landed a whole structural design contract on a housing development on the last piece of vacant land at Renfrew’s Braehead Shopping Centre. Working with Bellway Homes, the specialist firm will provide design services at L

Unused university campus buildings located at the University of the West of Scotland (UWS) Thornly Park Campus are to be demolished after a large deliberate fire on Sunday night.

Renfrewshire Council is to embark on a major new social housing retrofit programme that will see up to 3,500 local authority dwellings renovated to either Enerphit or the AECB Retrofit Standard over the next four years.

Paisley Museum Reimagined has appointed specialist fit-out contractor The Hub to lead on Paisley Museum’s £6.8 million exhibition fit-out. Following a competitive tendering process, The Hub will work with the Paisley Museum Reimagined team from now until the end of November 2023. Beginni

Plans have been finalised for 119 homes for private sale at Ferry Village, Braehead.

Construction works continue to progress at the £7.4 million Paisley Learning & Cultural Hub as Arc-Tech (Scotland) commences the M&E installation. The new facility, located on High Street in the town centre, comprises the repurposing and reconfiguration of former retail premises into a

The Dargavel Village development in Bishopton is set to grow after Stewart Milne Homes acquired a 16-acre neighbouring site to create a further 197 new homes.

JR Training Services has unveiled plans to create a state-of-the-art training facility in Paisley.

Vacant and derelict land next to Bluebell Wood within the grounds of Johnstone Castle is set to provide 76 homes for social rent. The development will be managed by Link and Linstone Housing under new plans filed with Renfrewshire Council.

A new development of 39 modern council homes in Johnstone is now almost complete - with the first tenants expected to move in over the next few months. The new development at Auchengreoch Road in Spateston will include a mix of two, three and four-bedroom houses, and one and two-bed cottage flats.

A housing developer plans to create "a new gateway to Paisley town centre" as it unveiled proposals for 67 new apartments on the site of a former Department for Work and Pensions office.

A public consultation has opened into plans for around 120 houses and flats at Ferry Village, Braehead.

Renfrewshire is in line for its biggest investment in housing for a generation as part of a five-year £266 million plan agreed by councillors.

A development comprising 23 new affordable homes has been completed in the Paisley area by The JR Group.