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31 Mar 2021 - No comments
Kier Construction has been asked to deliver a £23m main works contract for the delivery of Paisley Museum following final sign off by councilors. Renfrewshire Council is backing a £42m...
31 Mar 2021 - No comments
Scottish Borders Council has awarded planning consent to Camerons Strachan Yuill Architects for the regeneration of Upper Langlee , Galashiels. The decision greenlights the demolition of...
31 Mar 2021 - No comments
West Lothian Council is to proceed with half a dozen new primary schools over the next seven years as part of a £144m investment package. The cash is contributing to the delivery of a new...
30 Mar 2021 - No comments
A proposal of application notice has been filed with Fife Council by GPH Engineering for the creation of a multi-million-pound golf resort at Feddinch Mains , St Andrews. Having acquired the...
30 Mar 2021 - No comments
Work to plant around 15,000 trees and shrubs in Winchburgh, 14 miles west of Edinburgh, has begun in earnest with phase one of the mammoth landscaping exercise scheduled to open by the summer....
30 Mar 2021 - No comments
Arts & events company SWG3 has commissioned plans for a significant expansion of its Glasgow headquarters at Eastvale Place. The Yardworks Studio will see the current warehouse evolve from a...
29 Mar 2021 - No comments
The historic settlement of Newtown St Boswells is in line for a secondary centre after Scottish Borders Council awarded planning in principle to plans for a mixed-use redevelopment of an  auction...
29 Mar 2021 - No comments
Major works to the former Arnotts department store in Inverness have broken ground with developer Swilken Estates fashioning six ground-floor commercial units on the historic Union Street facade...
29 Mar 2021 - No comments
A campaign to create a shipbuilding museum dedicated to celebrating the industrial legacy of the River Clyde has been launched. The Shipyard Trust  has been working on the idea for a...
26 Mar 2021 - No comments
Fife Council has launched a Glenrothes masterplan mapping out how the town centre should evolve in the decade to 2030 and beyond. Drawn up by Halliday Fraser Munro and Aecom the document...
26 Mar 2021 - No comments
An innovative £1.95m learning hub is to be built by the Harmeny Education Trust following planning approval for the competition-winning design . Led by Loader Monteith Architects with SJM...
25 Mar 2021 - No comments
Plans have been brought forward to build eight flats on the site of a workshop and garage at Walker Place , Aberdeen, by JOR Property. Arranged around a retained electrical substation the plan...
25 Mar 2021 - No comments
Ayrshire Housing has lodged a planning application for 22 houses at Queen's terrace on the outskirts of Maybole, South Ayrshire. Designed by Do-Architecture, with assistance from McColm Civil...
25 Mar 2021 - No comments
Graham Construction is to deliver two student accommodation projects in Edinburgh on behalf of Watkin Jones, following the sale of both sites by developer S. Harrison. Planning permission has...
24 Mar 2021 - No comments
Graeme Nicholls Architects & Secchi Smith have been shortlisted for the inaugural Davidson Prize, launched last year in memory of Alan Davidson - founder of Hayes Davidson. The partnership is...
24 Mar 2021 - No comments
A rusting landmark on the River Clyde is set to become an important tourism destination Peel L&P agreed a sale of the industrial relic to community interest group Big Cran Co. As part of the...
24 Mar 2021 - No comments
Hub South West is inviting suppliers and trades to bid for work on the delivery of a trio of schools across North Lanarkshire. The renewal programme includes a new Carnbroe Sikeside Primary...
23 Mar 2021 - No comments
Eildon Housing Association in collaboration with AMP Architects and Will Rudd Davidson Engineers have set out plans for the second phase of a significant housing development at Buckholm Corner ,...
23 Mar 2021 - No comments
Balfour Beatty has been appointed to build a Plant Health Centre, energy centre and associated infrastructure this autumn in the first phase of the Edinburgh Biomes initiative. The seven-year...
23 Mar 2021 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has awarded planning consent to jmarchitects for the next phase of a major estate renewal programme in Pollokshields. Southside Housing Association will build 120 homes in...
22 Mar 2021 - No comments
Affordable homes specialists Cullross has teamed up with Caledonia Housing Association to bring forward residential plans for a 2-hectare former industrial site opposite the Kingsway retail park...
22 Mar 2021 - No comments
An under-construction Edinburgh hotel is to benefit from the addition of a seventh-floor 'garden sanctuary', affording guests and the public a chance to soak up rooftop views. The Virgin Hotel...
22 Mar 2021 - No comments
Faro Capital has launched a public consultation into its plans for the residential-led redevelopment of a redundant office building at Wellington Circle, Altens, south of Aberdeen. Quattro...
19 Mar 2021 - No comments
A residential masterplan has been put in place for HMRC's Cumbernauld base ahead of a consolidation of services to new government hubs in Edinburgh and Glasgow . Situated adjacent to the...
19 Mar 2021 - No comments
Unicorn Property Services have staged a public consultation outlining their vision for a mixed-use redevelopment of up to 180 apartments at Rennie's Isle , Leith. The virtual exhibition...
18 Mar 2021 - No comments
Architecture & Design Scotland has launched a 10-year strategy that sets out how future buildings and places can benefit people and communities. The organisation will spend the coming decade...
18 Mar 2021 - No comments
A long-standing gap-site on Glasgow's riverfront could be plugged by a new hotel development led by Mosaic Architecture & Design. A proposal of application notice has been filed by HMH One...
17 Mar 2021 - No comments
Comprehensive Design Architects (CDA) and Russell Logistics have filed outline plans to build a mixed-use development on a linear tract of land on Salamander Street , Leith. The move would...
17 Mar 2021 - No comments
NHS Lothian has taken possession of the delayed   Royal Hospital for Children and Young People ahead of its formal opening later this month. Designed by HLM Architects the 233 bed Little...
17 Mar 2021 - No comments
3DReid Architects have obtained planning permission in principle to build a woodland holiday retreat at Beaufort Castle near Inverness. Culmination of a two-year design process led by Savills...
16 Mar 2021 - No comments
Govan Housing Association has brought forward plans for the first phase of a major mixed-use development where the famous Harland & Wolff shipyard once stood at Water Row in Govan. A design...
16 Mar 2021 - No comments
David Narro Associates (DNA) have established a permanent presence in Aberdeen with the opening of the practices fifth office at Banchory Business Centre. Serving clients across the north-east...
16 Mar 2021 - No comments
Locals are being invited to have their say on proposals to build a £33.8m leisure development at West Kinfauns , Perthshire. The mixed-use masterplan calls for the creation of a leisure...
16 Mar 2021 - No comments
East Ayrshire Council has officially opened the Barony Campus in Cumnock, a £68m education building that consolidates five individual schools in one. Built by Morrison Construction the...
15 Mar 2021 - No comments
New plans have been penned to alter and extend an Edinburgh church following refusal of an earlier application . The Life Church at Davie Street, Dumbiedykes, had sought to build a new...
15 Mar 2021 - No comments
Cruden Building and Coltart Earley Architects are to begin delivery of two blocks of 38 apartments on the site of the former Lairdsland Primary School , in Kirkintilloch's central conservation...
15 Mar 2021 - No comments
Hanover Scotland and ECD Architects have obtained planning consent from Loch Lomond & the Trossachs National Park to erect 15 affordable homes in Drymen. The Passivhaus standard build at Conic...
15 Mar 2021 - No comments
A disused sawmill accessible solely via a single-track forestry road is to be converted into a private home under new plans filed by Kearney Donald Partnership. Located to the west of the...
12 Mar 2021 - No comments
Plans have been brought forward for a mixed-use addition to Currie main street involving the demolition of a disused commercial unit for the erection of new premises below six flats. Led by DDS...
12 Mar 2021 - No comments
Gilshochill residents are to be given their say on a residential-led masterplan to revitalise the North Maryhill neighbourhood. Transforming Communities: Glasgow (TC:G), in partnership with...
12 Mar 2021 - No comments
A consultation has opened into proposals to build 79 double-banked private rental apartments on industrial land at 148 Wishart Street overlooking Glasgow Necropolis towards the Cathedral. Led...
11 Mar 2021 - No comments
ZM Architecture has authored plans to build a four-storey extension to offices at 40 Carrick Street , Glasgow, comprising open-plan floorplates and an escape stair. Rising above a ground floor...
11 Mar 2021 - No comments
An East Ayrshire Primary is set to become the first school in the UK to be Passivhaus EnerPHit certified, a refurbishment standard for existing buildings that cannot match the energy efficiency of...
10 Mar 2021 - No comments
Radisson Blu architect Alan Dunlop has set out alternative plans for a 150-room expansion of the Glasgow landmark, after plans for a 'bold' aluminium rainscreen rooftop extension elicited an...
10 Mar 2021 - No comments
A new report outlining measures to facilitate physical distancing at George Square has been prepared by Glasgow City Council as part of the Spaces for People programme. The package of works...
10 Mar 2021 - No comments
The next phase of Glasgow's Collegelands development has taken a significant step forward with the submission of plans by Vastint Hospitality for 221 car-free rental homes and 6,000sq/m of office...
9 Mar 2021 - No comments
AHR Architects have won planning consent from South Ayrshire Council to proceed with a replacement primary school in Girvan. The new Sacred Heart Primary on Henrietta Street will take the...
9 Mar 2021 - No comments
A 0.167ha dog leg industrial site off Leith Walk in Edinburgh's Pilrig Conservation Area is to provide 34 car-free apartments under new plans submitted by Morgan McDonnell. The work will see an...
9 Mar 2021 - No comments
LMA Architects have completed a 96-bed Premier Inn hotel on Hamilton's Townhead Street, including a new restaurant within a ground-level glazed plinth. Delivered under a design and build...
8 Mar 2021 - No comments
Private space company Skyrora has appointed HarrisonStevens landscape architects to help it deliver a static fire engine test facility at a disused Midlothian quarry. Broad Law Quarry , a...
8 Mar 2021 - No comments
Civil engineering firm Graham has beaten off competition from consortiums led by Atkins and Balfour Beatty to secure a £75.9m construction contract to build the first opening road bridge over...
5 Mar 2021 - No comments
BAM Construction and Hub South East have commenced delivery of a 1,900sq/m additional support needs building within the grounds of James Young High School, Livingston. Designed in-house by West...
5 Mar 2021 - No comments
Brown & Brown Architects are to shortly file plans for a substantial bespoke home within the eclectic King's Cairn residential development at Archerfield, East Lothian. Overlooking a golf...
5 Mar 2021 - No comments
The final steel component of a future active travel bridge over the M8 has been delivered in reparation for assembly over the next three months. Drawing the under-construction Sighthill...
4 Mar 2021 - No comments
LMA Architects have lodged plans for a large modern farmhouse near Auchengate in rural North Ayrshire, designed to blend into the rolling countryside. Auchengate House is modelled on the...
4 Mar 2021 - No comments
Work has begun to deliver a £22.4m robotics centre at Heriot-Watt University, the largest and most advanced facility of its kind in the UK. Operated in collaboration with the University of...
3 Mar 2021 - No comments
10 Design has won approval for a major redevelopment project in Edinburgh's New Town to transform the sprawling former Royal Bank of Scotland headquarters on Dundas Street into a mixed-use...
3 Mar 2021 - No comments
An active travel route linking Monifeith to Broughty Ferry is on the cusp of approval with Dundee's city development committee scheduled to consider the plan on Monday. This would see Mill...
3 Mar 2021 - No comments
Scottish Power and planning consultancy Turley have shared their vision to develop the former Inverkip Power Station site with 650 homes and a village centre complete with shops, community...
2 Mar 2021 - No comments
Social distancing may remain the order of the day but amidst the lockdown, the Scottish Design Awards have assembled a ten-strong panel of judges to lead us into a post-crisis future. Whatever...
2 Mar 2021 - No comments
A disused children's hospital in Edinburgh's Grange conservation district is to be converted to three homes through the replacement of low-quality extensions with contemporary additions better...
2 Mar 2021 - No comments
A series of alterations have been proposed for Glasgow's Radisson Blu hotel including remodelled entrances to improve engagement with the street and a 'bold' rooftop extension - subject to a...
1 Mar 2021 - No comments
The Architecture Fringe is inviting examples of self-directed work to feature in its 2021 festival which will focus on issues surrounding racism, the environment and land ownership. Taking...
1 Mar 2021 - No comments
Brand new proposals have emerged for purpose-built rental apartments on Glasgow's historic High Street following a change of architect. Structured House have brought Carson/Sall Architects on...
1 Mar 2021 - No comments
A poultry farm located in Clapperton, east of Livingston has been earmarked for a £275m mixed-use development in a new application for planning in principle filed with West Lothian Council....

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