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A planning application has been put forward for 23 new homes in Ravenscraig consisting of cottage flats, terraced houses, and semi-detached houses. The proposal at the junction of New Craig Road and Prospect Hill Road is mindful of the adjacent completed housing development and utilises vehicular ac

The Stockingfield Bridge in north Glasgow has won the 2022 Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) People’s Choice Award, which recognises civil engineering projects that have made a positive impact on their local communities. The two-way spanning cable-stayed pedestrian and cycle bridge opened e

Recent visitors to FORE Partnership’s Cadworks in Glasgow City Centre will have seen the building’s latest addition – a bright green telephone box in the entrance foyer. The telephone box, entitled ‘Call Your Mother’, is an installation by Force of Nature that was creat

Previously rejected plans to build 48 new homes in Forres will now go ahead after the Scottish Government overruled councillors. St Machar Properties, formerly Redco Milne, submitted proposals to redevelop the former Tesco site at Caroline Street to Moray councillors in 2020, but they were rejected

A row has broken out over plans to build a new, bog-standard public toilet in San Francisco at a cost of $1.7 million (around £1.5 million). City councillors last week called a press conference to announce that Noe Valley, currently served only by a temporary portable toilet, would get a singl

Public events will take place from this week as part of pre-planning consultations on proposals for 70 new homes in Dunfermline. Campion Homes is behind the affordable housing development which is set to be located on the site of a former council depot on Elgin Street, next to the Army Reserve base.

Applicant: Dundas Estates & Development Company Limited. Planning Authority: Edinburgh

Fife-based home improvements firm CR Smith has reported an increase in profits after tax of 10% for the financial year to December 2021, with turnover exceeding £20.2 million. The accounts lodged for CR Smith Glaziers (Dunfermline) Ltd, the company’s domestic sales business, show that it

Kirkliston & South Queensferry FC’s 2014s team is sporting a fresh match day kit for the new season thanks to Dandara East Scotland. The housebuilder donated close to £3,000 to the club whose players train and play in Kirkliston near its Foxhall Gait development.

Proposals for a £120 million development of around 500 homes and a new neighbourhood centre in Polmont will go before Falkirk councillors tomorrow. Hansteen submitted the application for planning permission in principle for the Gilston Park residential-led mixed-used development, which will be

Construction is commencing on a new 342-home neighbourhood in St Andrews where 30% of homes will be affordable. Savills Development completed on the sale of the 17-hectare site to David Wilson homes, just 1.5 miles to the south east of the historic town centre.

Larkhall primary children have been putting their thinking caps on to ponder what homes and neighbourhood life might look like 200 years from now, as part of a community legacy project with housebuilder Living by Robertson. To mark the beginning of the housebuilder’s new neighbourhood of 128 h

Architectural practice Rio Architects has appointed Shirley Hamill as associate director (Scotland lead) as part of a series of promotions and leadership appointments across its Edinburgh and Cardiff studios. Ms Hamill will drive the growth of Rio's Scotland office. From her base in Edinburgh, she i

The controlled dismantling of a building at 2 High Street, Jedburgh, originally set to be completed by the end of July 2022, is now expected to conclude by February 2023. The dismantling process began in December 2021, but Scottish Borders Council (SBC) said a number of unforeseen additional works e

A new hydroelectric development on Raasay is set to generate enough power for 144 homes. The project — funded by £650,000 raised by Raasay Community Renewables (RCR) through a community share offer and a further £300,000 grant from SSE Renewables — consists of two run-of-rive