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Barratt Homes West Scotland has lost its appeal against Stirling Council’s refusal for 265 new homes to be built in Cambusbarron. Councillors rejected plans for the Seven Sisters Field development off Polmaise Road in December, which had attracted a 230 signature petition from locals.

The proposed residential development at Shawlands Bowling Club has been granted planning permission following an appeal to the Glasgow City Council local review board.

One of Aberdeen’s key commercial property investment and development experts has launched a new independent venture with more than £100 million of potential transactions lined up in the next 12-18 months Gordon Pirie has developed commercial property investment agency and development con

The real estate investment firm behind the Cadworks speculative office development in Glasgow has announced the resumption of work on the project.

Construction trade bodies have applauded the decision of HS2 Ltd to implement the use of project bank accounts (PBAs) for payments across existing and future contracts.

The familiar sounds of a construction site is the background music to any city. However, the global COVID-19 pandemic has meant that, like many other projects across the United Kingdom, Edinburgh was quiet and still as site activities on the £1 billion Edinburgh St James project were suspended

The Outer Hebrides, Orkney and Shetland will benefit from investment of up to £100 million as part of the Islands Growth Deal.

Plans by the UK Government to extend new ‘rights’ to alter or replace buildings across England without the need for planning permission risk adding to the country’s already prevalent health and societal inequalities, the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI) has said.

The opportunities and problems facing golf clubs through the eyes of rural property surveyor Donald Yellowley. Bob Dylan’s song might sigh wistfully about A Simple Twist of Fate, but for Scotland’s hundreds of world-class golf clubs, it must seem that the Fates are conspiring against the

The world-renowned Union Chain Bridge, which links Scotland and England over the River Tweed, celebrates its bicentennial this Sunday (26 July).

A Frank Lloyd Wright cottage once slated for demolition in the Chicago suburbs was loaded onto wheeled dollies and rolled about four blocks to its new home. The Booth Cottage, built in 1913 as a temporary home for the architect’s lawyer, Sherman Booth, resided at 239 Franklin Road in Glencoe f

A new hotel with a rooftop bar and city centre ‘hub’ with space for local businesses is planned as part of a proposed redevelopment and refurbishment of the Debenhams store on Edinburgh’s Princes Street.

A planning application has been submitted for a new malt distillery on the historic Hopetoun Estate at Midhope, West Lothian. 

The new owners of Scotia Homes have warned that a reorganisation of the business may lead to redundancies. A source quoted in The Press & Journal said a redundancy consultation has started among a workforce totalling about 190 people with more than 100 jobs on the line.

Preparations are under way for the demolition of a deteriorating footbridge over the M8 to make way for a new crossing to connect the regenerated Sighthill and North Glasgow to the nearby city centre.