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Alex Neil Planning authorities have been urged to continue to speed up decisions on major applications after new statistics revealed progress has been made on planning performance.

Work is due to get under way on a £15.2 million project to dual a major link road and create a 1,000 space park-and-ride site to improve congestion in Aberdeen. The A96 project will begin in the spring, with a new stretch of dual carriageway created between the road and Dyce Drive including a share

Plans for a link road that could provide direct access from a proposed property development to the Gartcosh Business Park, the local railway station and the M73 have emerged as the preferred choice by a North Lanarkshire Council.

The award-winning Athletes’ Village in Dalmarnock, which was home to around 7,000 competitors and officials during the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games has welcomed its first new residents.

Advocates Close Edinburgh’s Advocates Close, the Glasgow School of Art, the Bannockburn Memorial in Stirling and Police Scotland’s HQ in Glasgow are among the projects which compete in the RICS Scotland Awards.

Work is needed to stop Scotland’s newest and most expensive motorway sinking into the ground because previous repairs have apparently failed.

Royal Bank of Scotland has revealed plans to build a new hotel, shopping and housing complex overlooking an Edinburgh park. The plans for the New Town conservation area that overlooks King George V Park and Eyre Place and have been shown by Edinburgh City Council documents to have been recommended f

A principle contractor is being sought to build a new extension at Liberton High School in Edinburgh.

Dundee flats plan approved

Detailed plans for a new school in Dalbeattie have been unveiled.

An Aberdeenshire business has been fined for serious safety failings after a man died when he fell more than five metres through a fragile roof. Latvian national Nikolajs Naumovs, 57, who arrived in Scotland only two weeks before his fatal fall, had been working on a roof at premises in College Boun

A huge fall in site safety inspections is risking workers’ lives, construction union UCATT has warned. The union discovered that last year the number of inspections of construction sites in Scotland made by the Health and Safety Executive fell 30 per cent.

The total amount of derelict and urban vacant land in Scotland decreased by 129 hectares or 1.2 per cent from the previous year to 10,874 hectares in 2014, according to newly released statistics. Figures revealed today by Scotland’s Chief Statistician found that the amount of land brought back int

Vaughan Hart By Vaughan Hart, managing director at Scottish Building Federation