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Highland councillors have approved plans to demolish a defective block at Thurso High School at a cost of £1.2 million instead of repairing it for nearly £8 million. Despite the council's Caithness committee backing the £7.5m repair plan, the full council this week voted to demolis

South Lanarkshire Council is in discussions with with Scoop Asset Management on plans which could see significant investment made to East Kilbride town centre. The details of the plans are still being finalised and more information will be revealed in August.

Construction trade association SELECT has welcomed Schneider Electric, Robus LED Group and CompEx to its growing associate membership scheme. The three major enterprises join 25 existing associates who have built mutually beneficial relationships with SELECT’s member businesses over the past 1

Remediation work is about to start at Lochgelly South Primary School, Fife Council has confirmed. Due to a steadily increasing school roll, a new modular unit is to be installed in the Lochgelly South PS grounds, which will house the nursery, providing more classroom spaces within the main school bu

The Dumfries and Galloway Council Economy and Resources Committee issued the 15th edition of the Development Plan Scheme (DPS) earlier this month, laying the groundwork for the upcoming Local Development Plan (LDP3). The annually updated DPS is a blueprint that informs future infrastructure and deve

A community consultation has been launched regarding the development of a new residential project slated for French Street/Carstairs Street, located in the south Dalmarnock area of Glasgow. The project, spearheaded by Clyde Gateway and led by Stewart Stevenson Architects, aims to rejuvenate a dereli

First Endeavour LLP has proposed a large affordable housing project near Fife's border with Clackmannanshire, along Kincardine’s Toll Road.

The Albyn Housing Society, in partnership with Lairg and District Community Initiatives (LDCI), has unveiled a £2.3 million rural housing project in Lairg, Sutherland. Funded by a coalition of the local Development Initiative group, the Inverness and Highland City-Region Deal, the Highland Cou

A banker, originally from a Welsh council estate, is set to sell his renovated folly in Wales, featured on the 2009 edition of Grand Designs, for a price of £1.85 million. The dilapidated property, spread over 24 acres, was purchased and refurbished by Dean Berry and wife Sarah. The updat

Structural and civil engineering consultancy Narro has today unveiled changes to its board of directors with Andrew Brown set to retire from the board from July 1st. After an illustrious engineering career spanning 40 years, 30 of those with Narro and 20 serving on the board, Andrew will be stepping

The chairman of Springfield Properties has challenged Stirling Council on the "considerable delays" by planning officials to progress housing at Durieshill. Attending today’s Stirling Council meeting, Sandy Adam made a bold visual statement with an eight-foot figure of a sn

Plans have been submitted for a new "modern, fit-for-purpose" prison to replace HMP Barlinnie. The new HMP Glasgow will be built on the site of the former Provan Gas Works on Royston Road in the north-east of the city.

With the recruitment crisis in construction creating enormous pressure on both contractors and consultants across all roles, Redpath Construction has teamed up with Glasgow Caledonian University with a view to developing its own site managers. Oliver Conroy and Blair MacDonald, who are stu

The Edinburgh Boiler Company (EBC) has stepped up its transition into sustainable energy with the appointment of Rick Bull as renewables technical sales manager. Most recently with the UK’s largest electrical wholesaler Edmundson Electrical as manager of the firm’s GreenTech renewables w

Renewable energy apprentices now number a quarter of all heating engineer trainees as the race to install more air and ground source heating systems steps up. In the latest intake at Forth Valley College’s Renewables and Energy Efficiency Training Centre, a quarter of the class of 16 apprentic