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31 Jul 2020 - No comments
Midlothian Council has received plans to demolish an existing home on 5 hectares of land at Biggar Road, Calderstones , to allow the formation of a replacement home. McLaren Murdoch & Hamilton...
31 Jul 2020 - No comments
An infill development of four mews homes in Glasgow's Kelvinhaugh district is taking inspiration from the city's industrial heyday to provide a distinctive living space. Led by Mitre...
31 Jul 2020 - No comments
The Shetland Islands are to benefit from 124 new affordable homes following delivery of a detailed planning application prepared by PJP Architects and Hjaltland Housing Association.  Located...
30 Jul 2020 - No comments
Ediston and Orion Capital Managers are pushing ahead with one of the largest planning applications seen in Edinburgh over recent years against a backdrop of global turmoil. The New Town...
30 Jul 2020 - No comments
A whisky boom is rippling out to the shores of the Outer Hebridesfollowing the submission of plans for a distillery at Gramsdale on Benbecula. Uist Distilling Company is to submit plans for...
30 Jul 2020 - No comments
Glasgow's B-listed Cathcart House has taken on a new lease of life following its conversion to 78 apartments by the FM Group and Cooper Cromar.  The former Scottish Power HQ has been...
30 Jul 2020 - No comments
West Dunbartonshire Council has initiated a £4.3m townscape improvement programme designed to bring fresh life to the town centre and forge improved connections with the riverfront ....
29 Jul 2020 - No comments
Edinburgh's student residential market continues to spring back to life with an application by ISA to demolish existing workshops at 7-11 Lower Gilmore Place in favour of 74 studio flats. Led...
29 Jul 2020 - No comments
A long-standing gap site at 520 Sauchiehall Street has been identified for 100 studio and one-bedroom apartments above ground floor retail in a statement of intent issued by Consensus Capital....
29 Jul 2020 - No comments
Mount Florida Community Council has opened a community consultation to improve the Letherby Triangle, surplus land located at the junction of Cathcart Road and Carmunnock Road beside Mount...
29 Jul 2020 - No comments
Construction work is poised to begin next month on a primary school and two new secondaries  and a sports building in Winchburgh following an agreement between Hub South East and Morrison...
28 Jul 2020 - No comments
Page\Park Architects and Link Housing Association have secured planning consent for a development of 23 affordable flats at Kilsyth Road , Kirkintilloch. The canalside site currently hosts a...
28 Jul 2020 - No comments
Construction work is in full swing on the delivery of 88 affordable homes on former industrial land at Bridge Street , close to Cambuslang town centre. Three flatted blocks of up to six...
28 Jul 2020 - No comments
In recent months Barratt Developments has reported a surge in interest from buyers keen to escape the confines of their city flats in favour of more rural and spacious accommodation with a...
27 Jul 2020 - No comments
Vengada Estates have presaged an autumn planning application in principle for King Street Car Park area in Glasgow city centre with the launch of a digital consultation. An urban framework and...
27 Jul 2020 - No comments
Perth Islamic Society has lodged proposals to build a new mosque and community centre on former industrial land at 43-51 Jeanfield Road . The first purpose-built mosque in the city seeks to...
27 Jul 2020 - No comments
A development site at Murieston Crescent , Edinburgh, earmarked for purpose-built student accommodation has been acquired by Maven Capital Partners for £2.8m. The asset manager swooped on the...
27 Jul 2020 - No comments
The new owners of St Peter's Seminary , Cardross, have expressed renewed faith that a decade's long deadlock can be resolved by pursuing an education-led vision for the historic site. Last...
24 Jul 2020 - No comments
CCG have extended their planned housing pipeline with a planning submission to create 46 flats in Anniesland, Glasgow, including 24 amenity flats for older residents. Industrial land bounded by...
24 Jul 2020 - No comments
An unprepossessing business unit on an Aberdeen industrial estate is to be given a radical overhaul at the hands of Tinto Architecture into a mixed residential, co-working and makers space....
23 Jul 2020 - No comments
Moray Council and Grampian Housing Association have gone public with their plans to erect a sustainable residential development for social rent at Bilbohall , Elgin. Taken forward by...
23 Jul 2020 - No comments
Big changes are in store for Elgin's historic High Street with Poundland helming efforts to develop their B-listed premises in the town. LDN Architects and David Narro Associates have been...
22 Jul 2020 - No comments
Glasgow's M8 motorway will be brought to a standstill on 1 August for 12 hours to allow demolition of a deteriorating footbridge north of Glasgow city centre. The nighttime operation will take...
22 Jul 2020 - No comments
A West Lothian Castle made famous by televisions Outlander is to play a role of a different kind after being chosen to host Scotland's latest whisky distillery. Indicative plans have been...
22 Jul 2020 - No comments
FM Group has completed the full conversion of a Victorian Baronial pile in the village of Croftamie, Drymen, to provide a range of flats. Dalnair Castle has been fully modernised to plans...
21 Jul 2020 - No comments
Ambassador Group has followed up their public consultation for a mixed-use campus at Craigforth , Stirling, with detailed plans for the office component of the plan. Craigforth North will...
21 Jul 2020 - No comments
Detailed plans for a major mixed-use development at Abbey Lane , Edinburgh, have been authored by Allan Murray Architects and CDA. Led by Artisan Real Estate and Unite Students the project...
21 Jul 2020 - No comments
Holmes Miller Architects are to formalise the ad-hoc conversion of seven townhouses at 10-22 Camphill Avenue , Glasgow, with a full programme of restoration to create a variety of one and...
20 Jul 2020 - No comments
An expansion of nursery provision in Aberdeen has been given the all-clear with approval for the conversion and extension of a B-listed former Gate Lodge at Duthie Park . Part of the city's...
20 Jul 2020 - No comments
Hub South West has greenlit a £7.4m development of 48 homes for social rent at Auld Kirk Road , Cambuslang. Delivered by Mast Architects and Cruden Group the scheme will deliver a mix of...
20 Jul 2020 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro has brought forward an application for planning permission in principle to convert the Mariner Hotel at 349 Great Western Road into 10 flats and build up to four houses on...
17 Jul 2020 - No comments
Carmichael Homes & Interiors are pressing ahead with plans for 22 identical 'upside-down' terraced properties in Venlaw , Peebles, establishing a new rural-urban interface in the process....
17 Jul 2020 - No comments
Aitken Turnbull Architects have brought forward proposals for a series of facade improvements to St Mary's School , Melrose, designed to transform its exterior appearance. Planned works will...
17 Jul 2020 - No comments
Proposals for replacement owners accommodation at Dunroamin Equestrian Centre , Dundonald, have been authored by ArchiStarchi in a new submission filed with South Ayrshire Council which champions...
16 Jul 2020 - No comments
NHS Highland together with Oberlanders Architects are spearheading amended plans for an elective care centre at Inverness Campus. First conceived as part of a larger facility containing a...
16 Jul 2020 - No comments
Agile Energy has detailed plans to erect a giant incinerator at Kirkwood Commercial Park, Inverurie, capable of converting up to 200,000 tonnes of non-recyclable waste into energy. The £200m...
15 Jul 2020 - No comments
Planning in principle is being sought for a residential development at South Gilmerton Farm , Edinburgh, by G+GA Architecture. Situated within the Gilmerton conservation area the plans...
15 Jul 2020 - No comments
Network Rail has partnered with the RIBA to invite proposals for a new generation of small and medium-size rail stations to provide a better interface between the network and the communities it...
14 Jul 2020 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has launched a contemporary art trail designed to showcase the diversity of public art to be found across the city centre while increasing footfall. At the same time, the...
14 Jul 2020 - No comments
A fire racked Victorian villa at Eadies Road, Dundee is to be swept aside under plans to expand Forebank Care Home . The B-listed Forebank House currently languishes on the Buildings at Risk...
13 Jul 2020 - No comments
Taylor Architecture Practice has taken the helm of a modest residential extension in Craigleith, Edinburgh, which will see an existing garage demolished in favour of a new build printmaking...
13 Jul 2020 - No comments
As the retrofitting of existing homes to meet tougher energy-efficiency standards moves up the political agenda The Pebble Trust and Scottish Ecological Design Association have published fresh...
13 Jul 2020 - No comments
Lockdown has changed the way we view everything from work to relationships but its long-term impact on the way we interact with the built environment is only just becoming apparent. In this...
13 Jul 2020 - No comments
Westpoint Homes, Haus Barton Willmore have been appointed to bring forward designs for 55 flats on 0.55ha of land off Greenholme Street , Cathcart, as part of the disposal of a former council...
10 Jul 2020 - No comments
The Hamilton Mausoleum Trust, in partnership with the Glasgow Institute of Architects, has launched a design competition to secure a future for the A-listed mausoleum and associated keepers...
10 Jul 2020 - No comments
Drum Property Group have advanced their Buchanan Wharf masterplan in Glasgow with detailed plans for building six of the mixed-use riverside campus. The 11-storey build will accommodate...
9 Jul 2020 - No comments
The B-listed Granton Gasworks railway station is to be brought back to life as business space under proposals led by the City of Edinburgh Council as part of the Granton Waterfront masterplan....
9 Jul 2020 - No comments
Block 9 Architects have returned with fresh plans to infill a prominent Musselburgh gap-site with 10 apartments . Superseding plans from last year the latest initiative encompasses an...
8 Jul 2020 - No comments
David Narro Associates and ZM Architecture have undertaken a full structural appraisal of Tollcross Winter Gardens , as part of moves to repair and repurpose the B-listed conservatory as a...
8 Jul 2020 - No comments
A former primary school in Edinburgh is to host 85 new homes following the appointment of Hart Builders to deliver the project by Hopefield Partnership. Hopefield Partnerships chief executive,...
8 Jul 2020 - No comments
Housebuilder CALA is switching its attention from suburbia to the city centre with plans to build 203 homes on the former Garden Festival site at Pacific Quay. Prince's Quay will bring a...
7 Jul 2020 - No comments
A development of 54 homes for social and mid-market rent is underway in Alloa with Marshall Construction moving on-site with a mix of bungalows, houses and cottage flats at Elm Grove. Led by...
7 Jul 2020 - No comments
Bridgeton Cross in Glasgow's east end has taken another major step forward with the completion of 68 homes for social rent designed by Elder & Cannon Architects. The Olympia Street build was...
6 Jul 2020 - No comments
The University of Edinburgh is furthering efforts to decentralise provision of student accommodation around the city with moves to deliver purpose-built studio accommodation on the site of the...
6 Jul 2020 - No comments
Scourie Community Development Company (SCDC) are to put the Highland village on the tourism map with a geology-themed visitor centre. Scourie Rocks has been designed by CG Architecture, with...
6 Jul 2020 - No comments
Halliday Fraser Munro Architects are spearheading plans for an active retirement community of 60 homes alongside a shop, nursing home and community allotments at the C-listed Binghall House ,...
3 Jul 2020 - No comments
Architect Alan Dunlop has wound the clock back again to prepare a fresh batch of Architecture in Time sketches. Breathing new life into forgotten and vanished street scenes the perspectives...
3 Jul 2020 - No comments
Planning and listed building consent is being sought to create 20 flats within Dundee's former Custom House and Harbour Chambers , alongside a further 29 flats in twin new-build blocks....
2 Jul 2020 - No comments
A formal bid to extend the Old Course Hotel in St Andrews has been mounted by Unwin Jones Partnership , with plans to erect a fourth-floor glazed extension to the east wing of the golf resort...
2 Jul 2020 - No comments
As the pool of prospective RIBA presidential candidates broadens those who have thrown their hat into the ring have released impassioned statements In a video address, Jude Barber of Collective...
2 Jul 2020 - No comments
A Highland estate is to play host to what is being described as the world's first rewilding visitor centre under new plans submitted by Threesixty Architecture. Led by Trees for Life, a...
1 Jul 2020 - No comments
An application by Bobby Halliday Architects to convert Bridge of Allan's C-listed Royal Hotel i nto 12 apartments, alongside 14 new build townhouses, has landed at Stirling Council. These...

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