Aberdeen

Transport Scotland has named Farrans Construction as the preferred contractor to deliver the A90/A96 Haudagain Improvement project in Aberdeen. The firm was named on a final shortlist of two in March alongside Balfour Beatty Civil Engineering Ltd, which pulled out of the running later in the year.

CALA Homes has teamed up with NHS Grampian to submit a planning application to Aberdeen City Council for a development within the former Royal Cornhill Hospital Grounds. The application outlines a proposal for the creation of 36 one and two bedroom apartments at May Baird Avenue.

Aberdeen City Council has approved plans for the second phase of CALA Homes’ Grandhome development in Bridge of Don. The approval ushers in the creation of an additional 116 three, four and five-bedroom terraced, semi-detached and detached homes which will complement the first 71-home phase.

Hopes the final section of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) would open before Christmas have been dashed after the Aberdeen Roads Ltd (ARL) consortium confirmed it will not meet the deadline it set itself just over a fortnight ago. Balfour Beatty and Galliford Try’s consortium told

Ceremonies to formally celebrate the start of building work for two major health facilities at Foresterhill Health Campus in Aberdeen were held yesterday. The £163.7 million Baird and ANCHOR Project is the largest project to be procured through the Health Facilities Scotland Framework to date.

Plans for a new crypt to provide a final resting place for nearly 2,000 intact skeletons found at St Nicholas Kirk in Aberdeen have been lodged, the BBC has reported. The remains were discovered at The "Mither Kirk" during repairs in 2006.

Plans to transform a disused city centre office block in Aberdeen into a 105-bedroom hotel have been given the green light. Councillors unanimously approved the plans by Mandale Construction North for the six-storey Custom House, on the corner of Guild Street and Stirling Street.

Dandara has submitted proposals to build more than 200 homes as part of a wider housing development in Aberdeen. Plans lodged with Aberdeen City Council will see the 216 homes developed on a site south of Hazledene Road, on the western outskirts of Countesswells.

The Craibstone to Stonehaven and Charleston section of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) will open early on the morning of Wednesday 12 December. This significant new section of road, which includes the A90 between Stonehaven and Craibstone and the A956 between Cleanhill and Charleston, w

The £9 million transformation of one of Scotland’s oldest and most historic concert halls was revealed at the weekend as Aberdeen Music Hall re-opened its doors. The complex renovation has restored much of the concert hall’s original features and created new public areas with impro

The final stretches of the long-awaited Aberdeen bypass are to be fully open by Christmas with the completion of work on the River Don Crossing – though the £745 million project bill is now more than £1 billion, members of a parliamentary committee were told today. A document submi

Revised plans have been lodged for a marine life visitor centre in Aberdeen after a new location was selected for the project. The Greyhope Bay project, which was originally planned for construction around the corner of Greyhope Road, closer to Girdle Ness Lighthouse, is now planned to be based at T

Barratt Homes has won a prestigious award for enhancing biodiversity at its Riverside Quarter development in Aberdeen. The developer received the RSPB Scotland ‘Business Award’ at its annual Nature of Scotland awards in Edinburgh for reconnecting historically divided habitat corridors an

The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has ordered Aberdeen City Council to improve its procedures after it identified a series of law contraventions when asbestos was discovered at a city school. A report by the watchdog noted that “no action was taken to deal with any potential contamination

Plans have been unveiled for a new £8.1 million health and care centre in Aberdeen. The facility, which will be located in the Greenferns area on the western edge of Northfield near to Orchard Brae and Heathryburn Schools, will incorporate the general medical services currently being delivered