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Ambitious moves to transfer ownerless properties which have fallen to the Crown into public control to benefit communities across Scotland have been unveiled today. The King’s and Lord Treasurer’s Remembrancer (KLTR) has launched a consultation on his proposals for a new Ownerless Proper

A new Climate Change Committee that will also provide scrutiny on social housing, built estate and planning is to be created in the Highlands. The terms of reference and the formal creation of the new committee was agreed at a meeting of the Highland Council yesterday.

The City of Edinburgh Council has voted down a planned redevelopment of the Old Tynecastle High School. S1 Developments had submitted an application for a new student residential development with at the site, with council planners recommending the application be granted, subject to co

MIXED USE and NON-RESIDENTIAL Applicant: William Grant & Sons Distillers Ltd

A team of archaeologists working on the Çatalhöyük site in southern Turkey has discovered an unusually large building over 8,000 years old. Çatalhöyük is a tell, a mound made of several subsequent settlements, belonging to a Neolithic and Chalcolithic proto-city in

Galliford Try has become one of the first construction companies to increase support to its people with a one-off payment to aid employees and their families with the rising costs of living. Individual payments of up to £750 will be made to around 1,800 individuals, representing more than half

Angus Council will not lodge any formal objection to a planned £40 million battery storage plant near the border with Dundee. The 80-megawatt proposal for the site near Duntrune would be the largest of its kind in the county and would capable of holding enough power to supply 35,000

Historic Environment Scotland (HES) and Forth Valley College are welcoming the new cohort of apprentice stonemasons to the Stirling and Elgin training centres, equal to their highest-ever intake, as courses begin for the new academic year. The organisation has recently significantly increased its ca

An event during Scotland’s Climate Week next week is to tell the story of three projects which have been exploring place-based collaborative approaches to climate action in Scotland. Organised by Scotland’s design agency, Architecture and Design Scotland, the event on Tuesday 27 Septembe

Detailed appraisals and outline business cases are to be carried out into two multi-modal transport corridor projects after approval by an Aberdeen City Council committee. The council’s City Growth and Resources Committee yesterday agreed to the move for the A92 Bridge of Don to Brid

James Keiller Property Developments, the property development, investment and management company based in Dundee, has invested £6 million in the expansion of a Dundee retail park as part of a wider strategy to continue to invest and trade in commercial property on the East Coast. The 37,500 sq

A reclaiming motion by a local authority challenging the refusal of its counterclaim against an adjudicator’s decision that a Final Certificate of an amount due to a building contractor was not conclusive has been refused by a 2:1 decision in the Inner House of the Court of Session. D McLaughl

Dandara East Scotland has donated £300 worth of prizes to Radio Lollipop’s Superheroes Ball, taking place in the Kimpton Charlotte Square Hotel in Edinburgh on October 7th. The housebuilder has supplied restaurant vouchers for auction at the event hosted by the charity, which provides co

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has highlighted the progress being seen in some aspects of the built environment on the drive to be more sustainable but has warned that the rate of advancement needs to accelerate significantly and become more widespread. The 2022 RICS S

Cruden Building has been appointed to three separate multi-million-pound procurement frameworks to address local housing challenges across Scotland. Each of the frameworks work in partnership with public sector bodies to deliver high quality affordable and sustainable housing with a focus on bringin