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30 Nov 2023 - No comments
A housebuilder has wrapped up development at Jordanhill Park in Glasgow's West End with the launch of eight sprawling detached homes and a final four townhouses. Housebuyers looking for maximal...
30 Nov 2023 - No comments
A nested 'building within a ruin' has been named as the 2023 Andrew Doolan Best Building, the first one-off house to secure the top award in its history. Ann Nisbet Studio achieved what no one...
29 Nov 2023 - No comments
A 200-year-old Glasgow Bar is moving on from the trauma of the recent past with plans to complement the ongoing transformation of the Briggait into a cultural hub.  The Clutha Bar is to be...
28 Nov 2023 - No comments
An application for first-phase funding to protect and conserve HMS Unicorn has been made to the National Lottery Heritage Fund as part of a feasibility study by the Unicorn Preservation Society....
28 Nov 2023 - No comments
A controversial student housing development planned for Glasgow's Sauchiehall Street has hit an impasse after councillors chose to refuse consent following a knife-edge vote. Overturning a...
28 Nov 2023 - No comments
Glasgow's booming student housing market is to be fuelled by a further 273 beds with the award of planning consent for a vacant site on Osborne Street . Ambassador Group with Mosaic...
28 Nov 2023 - No comments
Groundworks have begun for 89 homes at the site of the former Killearn Hospital, unusually including 14 two-bedroom bungalows. 
 Ballagan Woods is bucking a national shift away from...
28 Nov 2023 - No comments
A dilapidated small holding at Damhead in the Pentland Hills is to be the subject of extensive remodelling and extension after receiving the all-clear from Midlothian Council . City...
27 Nov 2023 - No comments
Indicative plans by CDA to redevelop two office pavilions at Pentland Gait , Wester Hailes, are the subject of a public consultation by Scott Hoibbs Planning. Emerging plans by Hamcap...
27 Nov 2023 - No comments
Network Rail has revealed outline designs by Story Contracting for a new station in Barrhead serving the Neilston line. Work is already underway to deliver Balgray Station on scrubland off...
27 Nov 2023 - No comments
A 498-home build-to-rent complex on the banks of the River Clyde has achieved practical completion, laying the groundwork for a bustling waterside community. The largest such development to...
24 Nov 2023 - No comments
A canalside garden room extension in Edinburgh's Merchiston & Greenhill Conservation Area has been completed by DS Architecture. 68 Polwarth Terrace stands parallel to the Union Canal on a...
24 Nov 2023 - No comments
Scotland + Venice, the cultural partnership propelling homegrown art and architecture onto the world stage, is to provide a curtain call for its contribution to the 18th International Architecture...
24 Nov 2023 - No comments
Edinburgh Park is set for further diversification with an imminent public consultation to set out plans for an 8,500-capacity arena. Parabola, owner and developer of the edge of town district,...
24 Nov 2023 - No comments
Plans for a mix of 105 homes, including the voluntary provision of seven affordable properties, have been brought forward for the latest parcel of land to be developed on the southern outskirts of...
23 Nov 2023 - No comments
Wheatley Homes South with ECD Architects have shared plans to build 112 affordable homes on vacant agricultural land at Thornhill, Dumfries & Galloway. A mix of semi-detached, terraced houses...
22 Nov 2023 - No comments
An abandoned seminary on the Buildings at Risk Register is the subject of a proposed retirement scheme by Convery Prenty Shields . St Joseph's Seminary in Lochwinnoch is subject to a...
22 Nov 2023 - No comments
The steady shift of Edinburgh's Princes Street from retail to mixed-use is continuing with an application to overhaul a corner block bounded by Hanover Street. RRH Hanover and Fletcher Joseph...
21 Nov 2023 - No comments
David Murray Associates have secured approval for a low-key extension and internal alterations to Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre after planners gauged the proposed works would have a...
21 Nov 2023 - No comments
Updated plans to introduce 11 flats above ground floor retail on Portobello High Street have been filed by Block Nine Architects after their initial attempt was denied consent . As before...
20 Nov 2023 - No comments
A ruinous cluster of Victorian agricultural buildings that was once home to the last native speaker of Deeside Gaelic has been revitalised at the hands of Moxon Architects for an...
20 Nov 2023 - No comments
The UK government has awarded close to £15m of Levelling Up funds towards Drumchapel town centre. As part of a broader package of funding to address 'overlooked and undervalued' corners of...
20 Nov 2023 - No comments
The mysteries of Iron Age broch construction are to be brought to the present day with an experimental archaeology project to recreate a drystone tower in Caithness, typical of the type common to...
20 Nov 2023 - No comments
Moves to redevelop the Midlothian Snowsport Centre in the Pentland Hills overlooking Edinburgh have taken a significant step forward with the award of planning consent for a new visitor hub....
17 Nov 2023 - No comments
A verdant workspace campus in west Edinburgh billed as a new breed of office environment has been submitted for planning with minor design revisions. Edinburgh Green emphasises the...
17 Nov 2023 - No comments
Loader Monteith Architects with Dan Pearson Studio landscape architect have filed plans for the perfect home for anyone wishing to get away from it all. Emphasising the use of local materials...
17 Nov 2023 - No comments
Atholl Estates have shared early plans for a live-work community (including self-build plots) and workshops on the outskirts of Dunkeld, Perthshire. Haughend will help meet a housing shortage...
16 Nov 2023 - No comments
New Gorbals Housing Association has opened a public consultation for emerging proposals to redevelop the site of twin tower blocks at 3 41 and 305 Caledonia Road . The housing provider has...
16 Nov 2023 - No comments
Nevis Properties has lodged plans to create a bespoke extension to the B-listed Cleveden Terrace in Hyndland to create a three-bed mews home and extend an existing ground-floor flat....
16 Nov 2023 - No comments
56Three Architects have drawn up detailed plans to replace a scrap metal merchant on Leith's rapidly densifying Salamander Street with a mix of build-to-rent and student flats. Stephen G...
15 Nov 2023 - No comments
Glasgow is rising to the challenges and opportunities presented by sky-high developer interest in building high, by setting out a tall buildings strategy. Responding to a wave of high-density...
14 Nov 2023 - No comments
The James Hutton Institute, the scientific research body focussed on land use, has filed plans for a new conference hall and infill extension at its Craigiebuckler home. The Just Transition...
14 Nov 2023 - No comments
Cooper Cromar Architects have published tweaked finalised designs for student housing at the junction of Glasgow's Renfrew and Renfield Street. A planning application prepared on behalf of...
13 Nov 2023 - No comments
Glasgow's freshest hotel has opened its doors with the first guests arriving at the 245-bed AC Hotel by Marriott at Love Loan. Flanking George Square in the heart of the city the Hoskins...
13 Nov 2023 - No comments
Network Rail and IDP Architects have lodged plans for a new Hairmyres station , including a footbridge and 11m lift towers, as part of the electrification of the route between East Kilbride and...
10 Nov 2023 - No comments
A Highland holiday home once owned by disgraced television presenter Jimmy Savile is to be demolished under plans to start afresh and remove a source of blight on a major tourist attraction....
9 Nov 2023 - No comments
S Harrison Developments, in partnership with Sight Scotland, has set out plans to replace the charity's former Edinburgh HQ on Gillespie Crescent with student flats. Jmarchitects have...
9 Nov 2023 - No comments
Outline plans for an ' Energy Transition Zone ' in Aberdeen constituting business and industrial routes connected by a coastal active travel route have been prepared by Ironside Farrar....
8 Nov 2023 - No comments
The Eden Project , Dundee, has hosted a further community meeting at the V&A Dundee to showcase its latest plans for the landscape-led regeneration of a former gasworks. The brownfield site at...
8 Nov 2023 - No comments
The burgeoning build-to-rent sector is shifting from city centre apartments to suburban family accommodation with the first phase completion of a 'rental neighbourhood' in Springboig. Casa by...
8 Nov 2023 - No comments
A former tax office designed in 1998 by Piers Gough of CZWG is to be converted into a 143-bed aparthotel under plans filed by CDA. Cotton House at 7 Cochrane Street has been taken on by...
7 Nov 2023 - No comments
Proposals to alter and extend a historic former warehouse , latterly in use as offices, in Edinburgh's New Town have been pared back by 3DReid. Updated documents show the removal of a top...
7 Nov 2023 - No comments
A council house construction drive in Aberdeen has gained further momentum with plans to build 87 homes at the site of the former Craighill Primary School , Kincorth. The local authority has...
6 Nov 2023 - No comments
O'DonnellBrown Architects have been awarded planning consent from the City of Edinburgh Council to proceed with the conversion of a listed New Town property into an aparthotel. HubCap, the...
6 Nov 2023 - No comments
A structurally unsound office building at 249 West George Street in Glasgow is to be demolished as part of moves to deliver purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA). Courie Investments with...
6 Nov 2023 - No comments
184 mixed-tenure homes in Sighthill, Edinburgh, have been recognised for their inclusive, energy efficient and accessible design. Anderson Bell + Christie has been working with the City of...
3 Nov 2023 - No comments
Initial thoughts for a distinctive holiday home, boathouse and walled garden have been shared for the Isle of Tiree by Denizen Works, centred on a vaulted open-plan living space with panoramic...
3 Nov 2023 - No comments
An A-listed Edinburgh office block designed by Sir Basil Spence and Partners in the 1960s gas changed hands ahead of its expected conversion to a hotel. Tristan Capital Partners and Queensway...
2 Nov 2023 - No comments
Plans to reactivate a disused Greyhound racing stadium in Glasgow have emerged in the form of a public consultation by Shawfield Regeneration and Cooper Cromar. Shawfield Stadium , disused...
2 Nov 2023 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has set out a five-year plan budgeted at £527m with the potential to deliver over 7,500 affordable homes spread across 186 projects. Working in partnership with registered...
2 Nov 2023 - No comments
Tomatin Distillery, situated between Aviemore and Inverness, is undergoing a major programme of expansion headlined by a new visitor centre. Placing the distillery on the tourist map the design...
1 Nov 2023 - No comments
Glasgow's newest restaurant is preparing to usher in hungry patrons later this month with the completion of Hazel, part of the £100m Love Loan development. Drawing inspiration from the...
1 Nov 2023 - No comments
Dundee has been chosen to host a purpose-built recovery village for addicts by the Homeless charity Social Bite. The village-style facility will offer accommodation and support for people...
1 Nov 2023 - No comments
South Ayrshire Council has showcased indicative designs for a series of streetscape improvements across Ayr town centre designed to improve accessibility and increase footfall. Businesses and...

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