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The New Look store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street could be transformed into a restaurant and hotel extension under newly submitted plans. Premier Inn owner Whitbread wants to expand its existing hotel into the adjacent retail unit to create 59 new rooms and a 387 sqm ground floor restaurant.

Glass and aluminium specialist Cube Glass is set to near double the size of its footprint with the acquisition of its existing Cumbernauld premises and a planning application for a substantial extension. Cube Glass, which will purchase its 4,200 sq ft factory unit at Tannoch Place from landlord Asht

Barratt Developments announced today that it will pay shareholders a £350 million in special returns over the next two years as the housebuilder recorded the highest half-year home completion rate in 12 years. The firm said a further extension to its capital return plan will see proposed speci

Allia C&C has issued a £13 million Scottish charitable bond to Angus Housing Association to help build 300 new affordable homes over the next three years. The Association's proposals will see excellent quality, affordable housing provided across Angus and Dundee.

Shirley McIntosh, tax partner at RSM, discusses the new challenges facing the legal sector amid changes in property tax. The start of the new tax year on 6 April 2020 will see the latest in a long line of changes in the taxation of property introduced since April 2013, from new and abolished rules,

A steady pipeline of activity lined up at Inchgreen Dry Dock for the months following completion of the Ocean Terminal cruise ship pontoon. (from left) Cathal Doherty, director UK at Roadbridge; Stuart MacMillan MSP; Ronnie Cowan MP and Douglas Coleman, project director at Peel Ports

The rejection of a plan to knock down an East Glasgow pub and build 24 two-bedroom flats in its place has been overturned on appeal.

An official opening ceremony has been held at the new £15 million Maidenhill Primary and Nursery in East Renfrewshire.

New research from the Federation of Master Builders (FMB) to mark National Apprenticeship Week has revealed that tradespeople can earn more than £50,000 a year. 

Sales at Queensberry Properties’ ‘Bonnington Mill’ apartment development got off to a flying start recently, with six reservations taken from the first release of ten properties at the sales launch.

Sculptures by the artist Eduardo Paolozzi were returned to their home on Edinburgh’s Picardy Place yesterday after more than two years in a temporary location.

Plans to convert the former ‘Teacher’ building at Glasgow’s St Enoch Square into a whisky-themed bar/restaurant have been given the green light.

The five-star Cameron House resort has obtained planning consent from Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park Authority for a bedroom and ballroom extension.

UK construction firms have reported a boost from receding political uncertainty with business optimism rebounded to its highest since April 2018.

Space at a former office building in Anniesland will soon become home to a new training facility for Police Scotland’s dog training unit thanks to housebuilder Mactaggart & Mickel. Willie MacKinnon, contracts manager at Mactaggart & Mickel, (left) with PC Alex Bell