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31 Mar 2020 - No comments
The owner of a prime development plot in Dundee city centre has changed tack after signing up Crosslane Student Developments with to erect 180 purpose-built studio flats. A proposal of...
31 Mar 2020 - No comments
A former Ducati showroom within a 130-year old tenement building on Great Western Road has been transformed into the city’s newest hair salon at the hands of the JR Group. A full renovation...
31 Mar 2020 - No comments
A purpose-built justice centre has opened its doors in Inverness amid the coronavirus outbreak to serve as one of ten court hubs to provide critical services during the pandemic. Operated by...
30 Mar 2020 - No comments
The University of Dundee is arguing for the demolition of an unlisted tenement at 16-18 Airlie Place within the City Campus within the city campus conservation area. In use over previous...
30 Mar 2020 - No comments
A full refurbishment of Glasgow’s Sentinel Building on Waterloo Street has been completed, including a full internal fit out and an extended reception area. Overseen by Doig & Smith the work...
27 Mar 2020 - No comments
Highland planners have awarded planning consent to a mountain bike centre on a tapering strip of land in the small village of Bunchrew, near Inverness. H+I Adventures with Loader Monteith...
27 Mar 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Heritage Trust has announced the completion of a full refurbishment of the exterior to The Grant Arms, a B-listed Dickensianesque survivor on Argyle Street in the heart of the city...
26 Mar 2020 - No comments
AMA Homes with Oberlanders have brought forward plans to sweep away a commercial unit at Falcon Road West , Edinburgh, to erect a five-storey residential development. The brownfield site just...
26 Mar 2020 - No comments
Glenfarg Homes have lifted the lid on their latest project, a scheme which has been custom designed for the over-50s.  Glenfarg Apartments is positioned in the heart of the Perthshire village...
25 Mar 2020 - No comments
Aberdeen City Council has cleared the way for delivery of 92 flats on Auchmill Road , accelerating the transformation of the transport corridor from a commercial zone to residential usage....
25 Mar 2020 - No comments
Local authority planning departments have pledged to maintain services as far as possible during the current coronavirus crisis but have conceded that there will be an unavoidable impact on...
24 Mar 2020 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council is moving to accommodate an increased entitlement of free early learning and childcare from 600 hours to 1,140 hours from August by ushering in a new wave of...
24 Mar 2020 - No comments
Barratt Homes are collaborating with EMA on the design of the second phase of the Baltic Street residential development at Leith, Edinburgh. Conforming to a broader dockland masterplan the...
24 Mar 2020 - No comments
Construction sites around the country have ground to a halt as workers down tools as part of a government mandated coronavirus lockdown. CCG, Springfield Properties and Mactaggart & Mickel...
23 Mar 2020 - No comments
North Ayrshire Council has approved a £30k package of funding to progress a full restoration of Millport Town Hall . The community investment fund cash will ensure the charity owners of the...
23 Mar 2020 - No comments
Argyle and Bute Council have launched a public consultation on plans to create a new active travel route in Lochgilphead. The Corran Path would connect the Front Green to the Crinan Canal,...
20 Mar 2020 - No comments
McGinlay Bell have seen off all challengers tin a Mackintosh-inspired architectural competition after answering a call by the Charles Rennie Mackintosh Society to design a contemporary homes...
20 Mar 2020 - No comments
The University of Aberdeen has detailed its plans to create a new business school within a redeveloped Johnston Halls as part of a wider renewal package for the Old Aberdeen campus. Reiach &...
19 Mar 2020 - No comments
Vacant council offices in Paisley have been earmarked for high amenity flats in Renfrewshire Council’s latest push to re-densify the town centre. The B-listed Kelvin House on Forbes Place...
19 Mar 2020 - No comments
CCG have completed a £3.5m affordable housing development in East Ayrshire under a long-term partnership with the local authority to deliver homes suitable for assisted living. Andrew Nisbet...
18 Mar 2020 - No comments
The City of Edinburgh Council has granted planning consent to the delivery of a new office project in the heart of the Old Town to address a shortage of quality office stock suitable for...
18 Mar 2020 - No comments
A disused power station (latterly used as a printworks) is set for a new lease of life under plans to repurpose the vast space as a family activity centre. The former Glasgow Printing Works...
18 Mar 2020 - No comments
North Lanarkshire Council has named Balfour Beatty as its preferred contractor to redevelop Motherwell Station in a £14.5m revitalisation project - part of a wider investment plan for the...
17 Mar 2020 - No comments
Toughened measures to arrest the spiralling coronavirus pandemic are feeding through to the construction industry as businesses respond to the outbreak by suspending all non-essential travel,...
17 Mar 2020 - No comments
A Rutherglen Church is to receive a new parish hall with the submission of plans by Convery Prenty Architects for St Anthony and St Mark’s on Fernhill Road. Proposals call for the removal...
16 Mar 2020 - No comments
Inverness has been chosen as the location for another Marriott hotel with the submission of new plans by Bricks Capital and KKA Architecture. A gap site on the edge of the city centre at...
16 Mar 2020 - No comments
Highland Council has given the go-ahead to an 850-capacity primary school at Ness Castle, a new build housing estate to the south of the city, to be delivered in two phases by Stallan-Brand...
13 Mar 2020 - No comments
Clark Contracts have commenced delivery of a 159-bed student housing development in Stirling on behalf of Maven Capital Partners. The £13.5m halls are due to welcome students in time for the...
13 Mar 2020 - No comments
S Harrison Developments are to proceed with a 248-bedroom student housing development on Gorgie Road , Edinburgh, after winning approval from planners on appeal. Designed by ICA the project...
13 Mar 2020 - No comments
Scottish Borders Council has taken possession of Jedburgh Grammar Campus following handover by Hub South East and main contractor BAM Construction. Pupils and staff will move into the...
12 Mar 2020 - No comments
Springfield Properties is to go-ahead with tweaked plans for its mammoth Dalmarnock development after agreeing to an £18.2m contract with West of Scotland Housing Association to deliver 114...
12 Mar 2020 - No comments
Stallan-Brand has gone back to square one with consented plans to build a major student residential scheme at Speirs Locks in Glasgow by reimagining the project as a build to rent development...
11 Mar 2020 - No comments
Edinburgh Film Festival is raising the bar with plans for a £50m cinema complex to elevate the International Film Festival to new heights. A dramatic 11-storey ‘temple for film’ has been...
11 Mar 2020 - No comments
Holmes Miller and LDA Design are aiding the delivery of a new leisure and adult resource centre at Allander under the direction of East Dunbartonshire Council. Juggling the need to provide a...
11 Mar 2020 - No comments
The Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland has unveiled an 18 strong shortlist battling for contention in the organisations 2020 award programme. Drawn from a longlist of 80 entries the...
11 Mar 2020 - No comments
The former Liff Hospital in Dundee has been chosen to play host to a 70-bedroom care home under new plans filed by ADP Architects on behalf of Consensus Capital. Liff Care Home will sit...
10 Mar 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has outlined a new temporary street café policy designed to draw more people to the city centre. The draft policy would capitalise on the existing leisure and retail offer...
10 Mar 2020 - No comments
Screen Scotland have named a First Stage Studio as the operator of a huge new film and TV studio planned for Port of Leith , Edinburgh. Intended to capitalise on global demand for production...
10 Mar 2020 - No comments
The University of Aberdeen has progressed plans for a new business school as part of a £50m masterplan for its historic King’s Campus . The institution has filed plans to bring its Old...
9 Mar 2020 - No comments
Artisan Real Estate Investors have undertaken the latest in a series of public consultations describing plans to redevelop Edinburgh’s Abbeyhill Industrial Estate to provide a mix of new housing...
9 Mar 2020 - No comments
Shetland Space Centre (SSC) is to open a public consultation this May over plans to erect a rocket launchpad on Unst ahead of the submission of an application for full planning consent in June....
6 Mar 2020 - No comments
A Giffnock car showroom’s days look to be numbered with the submission of plans to build a 72-bed care home by Unum Partnership on behalf of Northcare. Geared toward residents aged 80 years...
6 Mar 2020 - No comments
HLM Architects have obtained planning permission to construct a National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NIMS) at the Netherton Campus in Renfrewshire to assist industry and engineering firms...
6 Mar 2020 - No comments
The UK government has amended its vision for a £20bn bridge spanning the Irish Sea by promoting the concept of an all-weather tunnel instead as part of a hybrid bridge-tunnel vision. The...
6 Mar 2020 - No comments
QMile Group and M&G Real Estate are building anticipation for their forthcoming rejuvenation of Edinburgh’s Haymarket with the publication of fresh visualizations of the £350m proposal....
5 Mar 2020 - No comments
Glasgow’s burgeoning Pacific Quay is set for further growth with the submission of conceptual plans for a major mixed-use development designed by Ryder. Indicative plans call for a mixed...
5 Mar 2020 - No comments
Work is set to begin later this month on what is being billed as Scotland’s first public non-domestic building designed and constructed to Passivhaus standards, following an agreement of terms...
4 Mar 2020 - No comments
Elixir Distillers have come forward with revised plans for a major new distillery at Port Ellen, Islay, which first gained planning approval in 2018. Nord Architects were commissioned to design...
4 Mar 2020 - No comments
Follow-up plans have been brought forward for a new café at Talisker Distillery on the Isle of Skye following the submission of earlier plans for a new entrance space and visitor centre ....
4 Mar 2020 - No comments
Cunninghame Housing Association has taken possession of 27 new homes on the site of a former agricultural supplies depot within the Annan town centre conservation area, Dumfries & Galloway....
3 Mar 2020 - No comments
Manchester-based Ollier Smurthwaite Architects are to tackle their first Highlands project after submitting plans for a mixed-use residential development on Union Street , Inverness. The...
3 Mar 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has commenced work on an £8m active travel project to reimagine pedestrian and cycle movements around the city’s north west. Connecting Charing Cross through Garscube,...
2 Mar 2020 - No comments
The Scottish Design Awards have resumed their search for the finest examples of architecture and design ahead of the 23rd gathering of the country’s creative community. Organised by Urban...
2 Mar 2020 - No comments
Robertson Partnership Homes has completed a £5.4m affordable housing development at Newlands, Fife, with the delivery of 40 homes designed by KDM Architects. Banklands is operated by Kingdom...
2 Mar 2020 - No comments
The University of Dundee has won £25m of initial funding from the Tay Cities Deal to build a major life sciences hub at Dundee Technopole. A concept design prepared by Oberlanders depicts the...

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