Scotland round-up: Glasgow sets sights on nearly 10,000 new affordable homes; Golf plan ‘flaws’
A round-up of planning news in Scotland: 28 October-3 November, 2017
Glasgow sets sights on nearly 10,000 new affordable homes
Glasgow councillors have signed off on proposals to spend more than £1 billion on nearly 10,000 new affordable homes over the next five years.
The Planner
Survey suggests increase in public support for renewable energy
There has been an increase in the level of public support for renewable energy in the UK, according to the government’s latest Public Attitudes Tracker results.
The Planner
Conservationists have claimed that US developers’ proposals for a championship golf course at one of Scotland’s most prized wildlife sites are riddled with ‘embarrassing’ flaws, including the claim that English law, rather than Scottish, governs the application for Coul Links on the Sutherland coast.
Glasgow Herald
Stirling E-bike scheme
Scotland's first large-scale electric bike hire scheme will be launched next year in Stirling, economy secretary Keith Brown has announced.
The Scotsman
Transport Scotland has published details of its preferred route for a new road in Inverness linking the A9 and A96 trunk roads.
BBC News
Glasgow has been named one of the UK’s most polluted cities, according to a World Health Organisation survey.
Glasgow Herald
Edinburgh castle redevelopment
The FM Group has secured funding to convert Dalnair Castle, a 19th century Scottish baronial mansion on the edge of the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs National Park, into a residential scheme providing 10 luxury flats and eight mews properties.
Scottish Construction Now
Aberdeen Football Club has issued an update on its long-running stadium development saga, which insists its proposals for a new stadium and training facilities at Kingsford will be determined by councillors before the end of the year.
BBC News
Ugly affordable housing in rural Scotland is damaging tourism, according to a professor of architecture at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen.
Scottish Construction Now
Green light for floating hotel
Plans for Scotland’s first floating hotel in heart of Leith have been approved by Edinburgh City Council members – by just one vote.
Edinburgh Evening News
An appeal has been lodged against the refusal of proposals for a 10-turbine wind farm in Galloway which The Mountaineering Council of Scotland argued would form a ’ring of steel’ around Cairnsmore of Carsphairn.
BBC News
Council and business leaders have vowed to turn around Union Street – once Aberdeen's flagship shopping destination – following research which found a tenth of its prime retail space was empty.
BBC News
Ambitious plans have been unveiled which could see a sprawling former oil refinery near Clydeside’s Erskine Bridge transformed into a leading marine technology hub.
The Scotsman
A pioneering district heating network has been proposed for the £250 million Queen’s Quay regeneration scheme in Clydebank, which would use water pumped from the river to warm new homes, businesses and public buildings.
The Scotsman
Uni development approved in Edinburgh
Architecture firm Sheppard Robson has received planning permission from Edinburgh City Council for a £19 million engineering, computer science and maths building at Heriot-Watt University.
Scottish Construction Now
Hawick flood scheme costs increase
The estimated cost of a flood protection scheme for 900 homes in Hawick has increased to more than £44 million.
BBC News
Aquaculture innovation strategy
Rural economy secretary Fergus Ewing has outlined plans to begin work to identify Scotland’s first so-called ‘aquaculture innovation sites’.
Scottish Government
New fees for coal mining sites
New regulations that support the introduction of a monitoring fee for surface coal mining sites will come into force on 1 January 2018, the administration has announced.
Scottish Government
More than £1 million of European funding will help restore the grade A listed Rothesay Pavilion on the Isle of Bute and help create new jobs, economy secretary Keith Brown has announced.
Scottish Government
Hamilton Park Racecourse has unveiled plans for a multimillion-pound hotel development, with a formal planning application made to South Lanarkshire Council.
Scottish Construction Now
Planning and development consultancy Turley has expanded its heritage service in Scotland with the appointment of its first full-time director, Catharine Kidd.
Turley
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