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Queen to officially open Queensferry Crossing The Queensferry Crossing will be officially opened by Her Majesty The Queen on 4 September 2017.

Organisers of the Carbuncle Awards, handed out each year in recognition of Scotland’s “most dismal town”, have said the initiative is to make way for a new prize which looks to take a more “positive” view of the nation’s built environment. The Carbuncles, which launched at the turn of th

John Muir Fife-based contractor, housebuilder and property developer Muir Group is looking ahead to “promising” prospects for the current year following an increase in revenue over the last 12 months.

Heart of Midlothian Football Club has announced that it will not be able to play any home games until November due to construction delays on the club’s new £12 million stand. Despite a “mammoth effort” to complete the Tynecastle project, club owner Ann Budge has confirmed that the targeted Se

(from left) Peter Barker, Gareth Callen, Andy Costa, Richard Dorkin and Ronnie Graham Ryder Architecture has appointed five new partners to continue to build on the firm’s growing expertise across an increasingly diverse sector and geographic base.

Plans have been lodged to transform a derelict Perth school into a £3.5 million arts hub providing work spaces and studios for local artists. Perth and Kinross Council wants to fashion a ‘creative exchange’ within the city’s former St John’s Primary on Stormont Street aimed at nurturing up-

Gillian Craig Gillian Craig looks at the risk attaching to ownership in an imperfect registration system.

A typical CALA West street scene CALA Homes (West) has submitted a planning application for a proposed development in Claddens, Lenzie.

Plans have been submitted for a £6 million housing development on a former hospital site in Arbroath. Chamberlain Bell Developments Ltd has applied to create 49 homes on the 2.2 hectare site of Little Cairnie Hospital in Arbroath, which closed in 2015.

Nicola Barclay New energy performance data gathered from buildings in England and Wales has busted the myth perpetuated by critics of modern new homes that they are “rabbit hutches”, according to trade body Homes for Scotland.

Business Fives founder John McClarey with ambassadors Pat Stanton and Gary Mackay With over 80 companies representing Scotland’s diverse economy it is the charitable element of Business Fives that everyone is talking about. Over 60 local and national charities will benefit from the summer season.

(from left) Andrew Laing, David Mundell, Stewart Laing and Scott Laing. Photo Credit: Mark Unsworth David Mundell MP visits Ardnahoe Distillery

Jeremy Hawkings, chief executive of Luxury Scotland, pictured as the Monopoly character 'Rich Uncle Pennybags' outside Kinloch House in Perthshire Budding property tycoons can now get their hands on some of Scotland’s most extravagant hotels as part of an extra-special variation of the classic Mon

Developers behind plans for a new community in Maidenhill, Newton Mearns, are to provide multiple pockets of land to facilitate the delivery of affordable housing as part of a range of newly agreed community benefits. The framework outlining the additional requirements for the development of 834 new

Work on a £2.6 million early years facility in Greenock is to begin this month after the project achieved financial close last week. The new 100-pupil facility will be built on part of the old Greenock Academy site and has been designed so the three nursery playrooms will all look-out over the Rive