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Prime Minister Theresa May has announced the abolition of a cap on what local authorities in England can borrow to build houses. In her keynote speech to the Conservative party conference yesterday, Mrs May said the move shows her commitment to help fix the housing crisis.

Restoration work has started at the site of a new £2.5 million visitor destination on the banks of Loch Ness. Housed within the former Dochgarroch village hall, the new unique destination is due to open its doors in May 2019 and is poised to become a beacon of Highland hospitality.

Willmott Dixon has teamed up with robotics firm Eksobionics to trial a high-tech exoskeleton vest to protect supply chain partners working on a new school development in Cardiff. Willmott Dixon is the first company in the construction industry to trial ‘Eksovest’ – an upper body exoskeleton ve

The new homes in Dougrie Drive A development by Glasgow Housing Association of 130 homes for social rent in Castlemilk has been hailed as the best in Scotland.

Glasgow City Council has outlined the ongoing success of the regeneration of Central Govan, with investment of around £90 million since 2006, and plans for the area's future. The investment has seen new homes, business and community space in Govan as well as more attractive streets, shops and publi

Morgan Sindall Construction & Infrastructure has successfully handed over a new state-of-the-art £13 million school to Aberdeen City Council in time for the start of the 2018 academic year. Stoneywood School, located in the Bucksburn area in the north of Aberdeen, was built on the site of the f

East Renfrewshire Council has submitted £23 million plans to build five new nurseries in the region. The facilities, three of which will operate as family centres providing childcare for 50 weeks of the year, are planned to be open by August 2020.

A deteriorating road-over-rail bridge which threatens the East Coast Main Line in Aberdeenshire will be demolished in the interest of safety. Abbeyton Bridge, on the B966 just north of Fordoun, was shut in July after inspections found serious failings in the 170-year-old structure, which continue to

RESIDENTIAL – FEWER THAN TEN UNITS Applicant: Greenpark (Polmont) Developments Ltd

Robin Webster OBE FRIAS Robin Webster has been elected the next President of the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).

(from left) Karen Shaw (business development manager at CCG), John Kerr (West Dunbartonshire Council’s housing development and homeless manager), Cllr Diane Docherty, convener of housing and communities, Calum Murray (director at CCG), and Cllr Caroline McAllister, vice convener of housing and com

Roof window manufacturer Velux has unveiled plans for a £7 million expansion to its iconic UK and Ireland head office building at Woodside Way in Glenrothes. A new customer service centre, training facilities, office space, meeting suite and a staff restaurant will be housed within a 3,500 metre ne

Royal Bank of Scotland has today officially released for sale its former office and data centre site at Dundas Street in the heart of Edinburgh’s New Town. Branded ‘New Town North’, the 5.89 acre plot is the largest site to be sold in the city for more than a decade and is expected

Highland Council has submitted a planning application for a low head hydroelectric development at the Torvean Weir on the River Ness. Using an Archimedes screw, the hydroelectric scheme will have a generating capacity of up to 100kW and an average annual renewable energy output of approximately 600,

John Swinney joins pupils Nina Biagi, Jack Biagi and Rehan Sohail in one of the school's new Nooks New primary school officially opened in Portobello