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31 Oct 2024 - No comments
Cruden has broken ground on 143 affordable homes in Muirhouse for the City of Edinburgh Council, including colony-style housing and wheelchair-accessible properties. Project architects Smith...
31 Oct 2024 - No comments
Architecture practice Fletcher Joseph Associates has submitted plans to redevelop their Edinburgh headquarters as a new flatted development on behalf of a pension fund. Tucked away in a quiet...
30 Oct 2024 - No comments
Open ground at Vallay Street , Milton has been earmarked for a new build affordable housing development of 72 houses and cottage flats for social rent. Previously home to post-war tenements...
30 Oct 2024 - No comments
East Renfrewshire Council is pressing ahead with scaled-back plans for a new Eastwood Leisure Centre and Theatre after agreeing to reduce the scope of the consented project. Stallan-Brand has...
29 Oct 2024 - No comments
Long-held ambitions to revitalise Hawick High School have taken concrete form with the reveal of a new campus designed by Stallan-Brand on behalf of the Scottish Borders Council. Sweeping...
29 Oct 2024 - No comments
An innovative research centre dedicated to crop production has opened its doors at the James Hutton Institute in Invergowrie. The Crop Innovation Centre will improve food security by taking...
29 Oct 2024 - No comments
A major housing development at Queensferry, Edinburgh, is to host a dedicated electric vehicle 'supercharging hub' alongside a traditional filling station and commercial space. The plans form...
28 Oct 2024 - No comments
A faded century-old Sauchiehall Street tea room is to be reinvigorated under plans to convert vacant upper-floor space into serviced apartments and introduce a restaurant to the rear lane....
28 Oct 2024 - No comments
Smith Scott Mullan Associates have requested planning permission to build 26 homes for social rent on open ground west of Selkirk as part of efforts to improve the availability of affordable...
25 Oct 2024 - No comments
The Ministry of Defence is progressing plans for a replacement health centre at Leuchars Station in Fife. The former Royal Air Force base is now a barracks for the British Army but requires a...
24 Oct 2024 - No comments
The full extent of a public garden surrounding the planned National Music Centre at the Royal High School has been unveiled. The Royal High School Preservation Trust is converting the former...
24 Oct 2024 - No comments
Dundee's Hilltown district has re-embraced its traditional tenemental character with the completion of 162 street-hugging homes. The urban site, formerly home to the Butterburn and Bucklemaker...
24 Oct 2024 - No comments
The former Edmonstone estate south-east of Edinburgh will host additional family homes rather than apartment blocks as first envisaged with the submission of revised proposals. Alba...
23 Oct 2024 - No comments
The urbanisation of Glasgow's riverfront is set to continue with a recommendation to approve plans to build 709 build-to-rent apartments at Lancefield Quay . A busy day for the city's...
23 Oct 2024 - No comments
A major cultural and student housing development in north Glasgow has been recommended for approval following a meeting of the city's planning applications committee . The recommendation...
23 Oct 2024 - No comments
Ambitions to introduce a residential flavour to Edinburgh Park are set to begin in earnest by the second quarter of 2025, with confirmation of a site start date by the developer behind it. S1...
22 Oct 2024 - No comments
A sports and activity centre at Blair Drummond House, a B-listed baronial pile near Stirling, has been put forward for planning approval by Camphill Blair Drummond Trust. Camphill, a global...
22 Oct 2024 - No comments
North Lanarkshire Council has awarded planning consent for a £10m industrial development at Ravenscraig, one of the largest brownfield sites in Europe. Fusion Assets and Hypostyle propose a...
21 Oct 2024 - No comments
Updated plans for a forgotten Portobello water tower will see it replaced by 5 apartments as opposed to a single vertical dwelling . Staran Architects on behalf of new owners Cabins in the...
21 Oct 2024 - No comments
Part of a B-listed walled garden at Inveraray Castle Estate is earmarked for a high-concept single malt distillery in a new venture led by the Stock Spirits Group . Coincidentally snapping at...
18 Oct 2024 - No comments
Detailed plans have been handed to Fife Council for a third development phase at the former Madras College site in St Andrews that emphasises decorative brickwork and stone masonry in a nod to...
17 Oct 2024 - No comments
A derelict 18th-century mansion near Dykes of Gray on the outskirts of Dundee is to be saved under new plans to convert the building into an 18-bedroom hotel. The A-listed House of Gray near...
16 Oct 2024 - No comments
The site of a former public convenience at Barassie Beach , Troon, is to become a new restaurant offering panoramic views across the Firth of Clyde. Casa Architects envisages a single-storey...
16 Oct 2024 - No comments
A derelict 17th-century walled garden near Bannockburn is to provide fertile ground for the launch of a new distillery. Auchenbowie Distillery, on the grounds of the A-listed Auchenbowie House,...
16 Oct 2024 - No comments
A Bishopbriggs landowner is seeking planning consent to build a 289sq/m home on the town's suburban fringe. Cuiltean off Auchinairn Road will see a private house replace a recently...
15 Oct 2024 - No comments
Aberdeen-based architecture and interior firm Tinto has the West Coast and central belt in its sights with the launch of a new office in Glasgow. Associate architect Ciara McInnes will lead the...
15 Oct 2024 - No comments
A £15m student housing development in Edinburgh dating from 2012 is the subject of a new planning application to expand and refurbish the student common area. AMA Studio on behalf of...
14 Oct 2024 - No comments
In the social media age connections have become more important than ever but while our digital infrastructure has blossomed our physical connectivity has lagged. In issue 59 of Urban Realm...
14 Oct 2024 - No comments
Stirling Council has approved a finalised Forthside masterplan governing the city's forgotten riverfront. The sprawling site is earmarked for commercial and residential interests, including...
13 Oct 2024 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has revealed its timetable for what has been billed as the biggest change to the city centre streetscape since the pedestrianisation of Buchanan Street in the seventies....
11 Oct 2024 - No comments
A sod-cutting ceremony has marked the start of construction on a second phase of affordable homes at South Queensferry . CALA Homes, with Manor Estates Housing Association, is progressing with...
11 Oct 2024 - No comments
Aim Design has set out a transformation plan for Dundee's Discovery Point, which seeks to improve the museum's relationship with the River Tay by installing a large picture window. Dundee...
10 Oct 2024 - No comments
Edinburgh's pioneering Social Bite village, a cluster of modular homes designed to alleviate the city's homelessness crisis, is to up sticks to a new location before the lease expires on its...
10 Oct 2024 - No comments
Edinburgh Academy is seeking listed building consent to modify a B-listed war memorial at its Henderson Row campus to establish a design and technology department. Conservation specialists...
9 Oct 2024 - No comments
The University of Glasgow has revealed details of the next phase of its campus masterplan with proposals for purpose-built student accommodation. Stallan-Brand has proposed a new addition to...
8 Oct 2024 - No comments
Planning permission is sought to reconstruct five terraced properties in East Kilbride following a devastating fire. The Whitelee properties were left uninhabitable following last year's...
8 Oct 2024 - No comments
A vacant post office in Edinburgh's Morningside has been earmarked for an 11-bedroom hotel under new plans filed by ISA on behalf of Pentland Investments. Supplanting proposals for residential...
7 Oct 2024 - No comments
The Trump International resort in Menie is set to offer golfers access to a second course from next summer as work progresses to augment the original with 18 additional holes. Overseeing the...
7 Oct 2024 - No comments
New student housing plans have emerged for a contentious gap site in Glasgow's West End following a hard-won planning consent for residential apartments obtained last year. Ian Springford...
4 Oct 2024 - No comments
A modest residential development of 12 apartments has been delivered in Helensburgh by the JR Group on behalf of Dunbritton Housing Association. Jeanie Deans on East King Street has been...
4 Oct 2024 - No comments
A B-listed villa in Paisley, dating from 1874 to designs by John Hutchison, has been scheduled for demolition following a recent fire. Latterly in use as a 15-bed retirement home, Spiersfield...
4 Oct 2024 - No comments
A disused Galston supermarket is to be brought back to life under plans to reclad the property for an alternative occupier. An application by Smith Design Associates on behalf of Downie...
2 Oct 2024 - No comments
Glasgow City Council has shared the first images of a proposed ' River Park ' extending along both banks of the River Clyde through the city centre in a bid to renew its waterfront....
2 Oct 2024 - No comments
An energy firm is charging ahead with plans to build a 200MW battery storage park at Bathgate, West Lothian after its plans were passed at committee without objection. Designed to store...
1 Oct 2024 - No comments
An obsolete naval time signalling device hanging from the 32m tall Nelson Monument in Edinburgh is to mark the passage of time once more with restoration work underway. Civil and structural...

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