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The director of an Edinburgh construction company, who lied about her business expenses in a VAT fraud, has been jailed for two years after an investigation into her company’s finances by HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC). Avril Jane Elliott, 49, from Gilberstoun in the Brunstane area of the city, ple

Port of Leith Housing Association (PoLHA) has secured a new £35 million private funding facility to support its plans to build over 480 homes for social and mid-market rent in Leith and North Edinburgh by 2020. The deal, which is one of the first of its kind, combines a revolving credit facility (R

The opening of a £150 million hospital in Edinburgh has been delayed by at least six months after construction firms entered administration and provisional liquidation. IHS Lothian Ltd, the consortium building the £150m Royal Hospital for Sick Children and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, has

Proposals for a new distillery and bespoke visitor experience within a 19th century Engine Shed building have been granted planning permission by the City of Edinburgh Council. The Holyrood Park Distillery will bring the existing Category B Listed building on St Leonard’s Lane in Edinburgh back in

The fate of Edinburgh’s Old Royal High School has moved a step closer to being decided after the City of Edinburgh Council unanimously approved plans to transform the building into a music school. Under the plans submitted by the Royal High School Preservation Trust, the A-listed former school

The City of Edinburgh Council’s development management committee has given the green light to a £500 million masterplan which proposes the construction of more than 2,000 new homes at Edinburgh Marina at Granton. Following the council’s decision in principle last December to grant permission fo

Lord Hardie The Edinburgh trams inquiry could result in criminal prosecutions, according to its chair Lord Hardie.

Oxgangs Primary School was the first school in Edinburgh to close Campaigners have called for a “root and branch inquiry” into public private partnerships (PPP) after building defects were uncovered in schools across Edinburgh earlier this year.

Councillor Andrew Burns All 17 Edinburgh schools which were closed after structural faults raised safety fears have reopened ahead of schedule with the final two handed back to the City of Edinburgh Council yesterday.

Plans to transform Edinburgh’s former Royal High School into a new music school and concert venue have been recommended for approval. Formally submitted by the Royal High School Preservation Trust (RHSPT) in December last year, officials said the plans to bring the A-listed building back

A man who died after being found injured in an Edinburgh street has been identified as a workman who had fallen 40ft from a flat above. The 56-year-old, who has not been named, had been carrying out restoration work on a flat in Fettes Row in the New Town area when he fell around into the grounds be

Heart of Midlothian Football Club has formally submitted a planning application for a new Main Stand at its Tynecastle stadium. The next stage of the Tynecastle redevelopment will see the stadium transformed into a 20,000-plus capacity stadium in time for the 2017-18 season.

Plans for the redeveloped Darwin Building, Robertson has started work on a £12 million contract to transform the University of Edinburgh’s Darwin building.

Forty acres of land for a residential led mixed-use development in Edinburgh has been put up for sale by the National Grid. The Forthquarter site in Granton – which includes the Granton gasholder – has been put up for sale in a bid to deliver much needed family housing to meet unsatisfied demand

Work to transform a tired 1960s office block in Edinburgh’s West End gets underway this week. The refurbishment of Randolph House in Charlotte Lane will create more than 9,000 sq ft of contemporary, bright, open-plan office accommodation extending over three floors.