Fife

Resource Efficient Scotland is to host a breakfast briefing event in Fife next month which focuses on how SMEs can access grant funding and loans from Zero Waste Scotland of up to £100k. Held in association with Fife Council and Green Business Fife, the event is a must for managers, directors and o

The first columbarium of its kind in Scotland will be created in a Fife village. The vault for funeral urns will be part of a woodland eco-cemetery to be constructed in Kinghorn. Only three others exist in the UK.

Scarborough Muir Group has today launched a £250 million development masterplan offering industrial, office, warehousing and leisure space adjacent to the new £1.35 billion Queensferry Crossing. With two new land sales near completion, the ‘Queensferry One’ development spans 120 acres and occu

Fife Council has lodged a planning application for a proposed £4.5 million extension to a primary school in Kirkcaldy. Under the plans, a new nursery facility will be created at Capshard Primary School along with associated car parking, landscaping and footpaths at the site in Barry Road.

A businessman from Dunfermline has been given a Community Payback Order of 250 hours for illegally disposing of asbestos. Graeme Burt, who runs a garage renovation and building service business, had previously pled guilty to the contravention of Section 33(1)(a)&(b) of the Environmental Protecti

A legal agreement which had delayed the construction of over 400 homes in Glenrothes has now been resolved, the Evening Telegraph has reported. Fife Council’s central area planning committee agreed in principle three years ago to allow construction of 420 homes and several industrial units at West

Kingdom Group chief executive Bill Banks with the construction academy trainees A group of twelve Fife trainees are celebrating obtaining their skills certificates from the Fife Works Construction Academy and are now taking up work experience positions on building sites across the region.

Infrastructure group Hargreaves Services has launched a new subsidiary to oversee its portfolio of energy-related projects including energy from waste (EfW) projects in Fife and Grangemouth. Brockwell Energy Limited has been formed to oversee the development and potential spin-off of the Hargreavesâ

A streetscene from a typical Taylor Wimpey development Plans have been lodged for around 1,400 homes in Halbeath as part of a large mixed-use development across Fife.

Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court - Image credit: user:kilnburn A building firm has been fined after an elderly man wandered into a construction site and drowned in a trench.

Developers behind plans to build more than 1,000 homes as part of a western extension of St Andrews have advanced their masterplan proposals following feedback from a consultation survey. Attendees at a second consultation event last week were given an early glimpse of how the St Andrews West could

Sub-contractors in Fife are being sought to help build homes for the UK’s largest house builder as Barratt Developments looks to add to its current supplier roster. The housebuilder is calling on sub-contractors from across Fife to come forward as the business looks to expand its workforce to meet

Carnegie Library and Galleries The first members of the public have stepped inside the Dunfermline Carnegie Library & Galleries (DCL&G), Fife’s newest cultural hub set in the heart of the town’s Heritage Quarter, following a 10-year design and build project.

2017 is proving to be a very busy year already for Fife Architects and since January it has begun a number of new renovations which are currently in the initial design stage. Included here are three brief examples to showcase some of the different projects that it has been working on.

A Dundee architects’ studio and St Andrews property development company have joined forces to create a new development of homes at a former St Andrews nursing home. The former Craigmount Nursing Home on The Scores, St Andrews is being transformed into six, two- and three-bedroom apartments, by Eas