South Ayrshire

McCarthy & Stone has secured planning permission for an assisted living development at Links Road in Prestwick. Designed by Holmes Miller, the four storey building contains 69 independent living flats with common facilities including dining and kitchen.

Work is now about to get underway to start building the new Queen Margaret Academy Plans to build a new Queen Margaret Academy in Ayr are a step closer with the official contracts now signed after reaching financial close.

Affordable housing at Elba Gardens in Ayr South Ayrshire Council is to work with partners to build approximately 1,000 new social houses over the next five years, its latest Strategic Housing Investment Plan (SHIP) has revealed.

An artist's impression of how the new visitor hub will look like next to the existing Belleisle Golf Clubhouse Work to transform the derelict stables at Ayr’s Belleisle Estate into a vibrant visitor hub is now underway.

Retirement home builder McCarthy & Stone is seeking planning permission for a 69-apartment extra care accommodation block in Prestwick. Under the plans, former children’s cancer home Malcolm Sargent House will be demolished to make way for the development.

A new Ayr Academy secondary school is set to open later this month after being delivered by Kier Construction and hub South West Scotland on behalf of South Ayrshire Council. Ayr Academy, whose origins can be traced back to 1233 but did not come to be known by its present name until 1796, has moved

Plans to kick-start the regeneration of an historic part of Ayr town centre have taken a major step forward with the appointment of a contractor and design team to develop new office accommodation at the Riverside Block. Morgan Sindall have been appointed as the project’s Tier 1 contractor, while

The University of the West of Scotland (UWS) has secured planning permission in principle for 102 residential dwellings at its Craigie Campus in Ayr. The masterplan by Keppie Design has been highly commended by South Ayrshire Council and Ayrshire Roads Alliance for its interpretation of the latest S

South Ayrshire Council has appointed akp Scotland to complete the major refurbishment and alterations of Kingcase Primary School in Prestwick. The project is programmed to commence mid-April with completion mid-August. The works involve internal alterations to the upper wing, the central circle area

hub South West has handed over a purpose built community leisure centre to South Carrick Community Leisure (SCCL) in Girvan. The Quay Zone, a £5.4 million sports and leisure facility looking out over the much-loved Girvan seafront, was completed ahead of schedule, and is to be operated by SCCL on b

Plans by The Harris Partnership for a Sainsburys supermarket on the site have since been cancelled Manse LLP is to take forward a mixed-use development after the Edinburgh-based developer acquired of 125 acres of land on the south-eastern outskirts of Ayr.

South Ayrshire Council has announced that it will be investing £79 million in housing over the next five years. The significant investment will be used to build new properties, improve and expand play areas and upgrade existing housing stock, with the council carrying out internal improvements to o

Plans to transform a neglected part of Ayr's historic town centre into a thriving new public realm have been approved by South Ayrshire Council. Submitted by Ayr Renaissance in November, the new masterplan, which involves the regeneration of land between the medieval "Auld Brig" and the Victorian "N

Generations of people in and around Tarbolton now have access to first-class facilities as the latest project by construction and infrastructure-focused partnership hub South West Scotland opened its doors. The first classes were held last week at the £3.8 million Tarbolton Community Campus, a flag

A voluntary group dedicated to restoring the disused Broadway Cinema in Prestwick has appointed Page\Park Architects to an investigation into the project. The Friends of the Broadway Prestwick group recently received a £15,000 grant from the Scottish Government’s Activating Ideas fund, and the ap