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South Lanarkshire is expected to spend more than £833 million on general services and a further £52.230m through its housing capital programme after the council agreed its 2022/23 budget.

Significant investment to help communities prosper following the Covid-19 pandemic, increased social care funding to improve and expand services and funding to reduce the carbon footprint of Scottish Borders Council and help deliver savings has been approved in the council budget. Over £95 mil

Specialist glamping site design consultancy Glampitect more than doubled its sales team in January as it targets a record-breaking year of business. David Fleming Lewington, Callum Moffat and Sam Gryckiewicz

Plans have been unveiled for a 10,000 capacity arena in Dundee city centre. The Courier reports that the Wilson and Gunn Architects proposal would see the existing Mecca Bingo site in Nethergate, along with the temporary car park in Yeaman Shore, transformed into a venue complete with a 70-room

A £1 million plan of action to improve drainage, access, paths and pavements across East Dunbartonshire has been unveiled. The 40 upgrade projects will take place in Bearsden, Bishopbriggs, Kirkintilloch, Lenzie, Milton of Campsie, Milngavie and Torrance.

A reclaiming motion by Stewart Milne Group against a decision that its former employee was entitled to bonus payments after he was made redundant has been refused by the Inner House of the Court of Session.

akp Scotland has begun 2022 with a raft of contract awards of circa £6 million over a variety of sectors.

Edinburgh and Glasgow’s office markets recovered in 2021, as strong leasing volumes highlighted a return to near pre-pandemic occupancy levels, according to real estate services specialist JLL. Documenting the growth of the office markets in the UK’s largest regional cities, JLL’s

Women in Planning is launching a new Central Scotland Branch in direct response to growing interest in the network within Edinburgh.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has started pre-construction work for its development of 227 new homes off Jackton Road, on the western edge of East Kilbride.

Midlothian Council is on track to meet its five-year target of having 1,000 council homes either built or under construction by the end of March 2022. The council has signed contracts with Dandara and Barratt, who are already on-site delivering 18 council homes in Shawfair and 53 council homes in Ro

Miller Homes is to bring 187 new homes, plus 63 affordable homes, to East Lothian with the launch of its brand-new Carberry Grange development in Whitecraig.

Construction work at two sites in Prestonpans has started that will help deliver over 40 much needed affordable homes in East Lothian. The developments by Lar Housing Trust, which has an extensive waiting list in the area, are at Northfields and Jim Bush Drive and will bring the total number of deve

Knight Property Group has lodged plans to convert an empty Aberdeen office building into affordable homes after failing to rent or sell the building. The firm wants to deliver 26 one-bedroom affordable apartments on the upper floors of the four-storey City Point building on Chapel Str

Build to Rent (BTR) housing provider Sigma Capital has reached a significant milestone with its first development in Scotland underway under its private rental brand Simple Life.