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Housebuilder Dandara East Scotland held a small road-naming ceremony last week recognising the courage and sacrifice of Jane Haining, a Church of Scotland missionary and Matron of the Scottish Mission School in Budapest, who died in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944.

A family-run Scottish farm village is set to open a new adventure farm park and café in June, thanks to a £500,000 funding package from Bank of Scotland.

The weather can put a damper on any plans but imagine the impact it has on a construction site where bad weather can delay works for weeks. Weather is a risk for every construction project and some contracts have clauses in them to share the risk when a bad event occurs. In the traditional scenario,

Councillors are expected to approve plans for the proposed £50 million redevelopment and refurbishment of the Debenhams store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street.

Robertson Group is to lead the construction of a new packaging production facility in Livingston after being awarded an £18 million contract by Spanish packaging giant SAICA Group. The current building on the site, formerly a distribution centre for a leading supermarket ch

Network Rail is delivering a new £33 million train depot and staff accommodation facilities within the existing Cadder railway yard, between Bishopbriggs and Lenzie, as part of the Scottish Government’s ongoing investment in Scotland’s railway.

Fugro has been awarded a contract to survey Scotland’s entire rail network and provide Network Rail with a holistic gauging database that includes clearance data from the track to lineside structures, platforms, objects, and the train-to-train passing interface.

Plans have been submitted to build 250 new homes in a plan to redevelop the site of the one-time luxury Letham Grange resort hotel in Angus. Previously dubbed the ‘Augusta of the North’, the mansion-house hotel has fallen into increasing disrepair since its closure ten years ago.

Plans to develop 105 homes at the former Forbo Nairn land in Kirkcaldy may succeed without the need for affordable housing contributions thanks to a technicality in Fife planning policy, according to reports. Miller Homes has proposed building units on land to the south of Calender Av

7N Architects has submitted a planning application for 46 new homes including affordable and a significant proportion of family housing on the site of 96 Temple Park Crescent in Merchiston, Edinburgh.

Elected members on the City of Edinburgh Council have agreed options for investing around £21 million in one-off additional funding which will be allocated for social care, net-zero work and road maintenance.

An appeal against the decision to grant protected status to eight multi-storey buildings in Aberdeen has been halted by the Scottish Government to allow Aberdeen City Council to build a case. Earlier this year, Historic Environment Scotland (HES) earmarked the eight blocks for A-listed sta

A new £1.65 million development of affordable council homes has been completed in Perth city centre. (from left) Council project manager Daniel Murray; Councillor Bob Brawn; John Baggley of CCG and Councillor Chris Ahern

Vacant council houses in Dingwall, due for demolition in June, are still playing an important role within the local community.

Planning committee members should by law receive compulsory planning training before they sit on a planning committee and make decisions on applications, according to a listed housebuilder.