PLANT machinery tycoon Morris Leslie this week lodged a planning application for a major leisure-based destination in Perthshire.
The Morris Leslie Group has put in a planning bid for a site at West Kinfauns, where it has its headquarters, to Perth and Kinross Council, following extensive community consultation.
READ MORE: The firm said the development is capable of supporting a variety of leisure and tourism functions and aims to include a four-star hotel, lodge-style cabins, and a museum that will tell the story of transport.
The proposed scheme is of a scale that can support additional development and is ideally placed in terms of transport connection - Morris Leslie
Scottish investment company founded in 1887 to lose independence in deal
THE board of Scottish Investment Trust, which was founded in 1887, has agreed a deal which will end the company’s long history as an independent, self-managed fund.
Scottish carbon capture cluster eclipsed by ‘Red Wall’ projects
HOPES that a pioneering carbon capture and storage cluster will be developed in Scotland within the next few years have suffered a big setback.
Scotch whisky company secures giant warehouse in central belt
THE owner of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society has signed a 10-year lease on a giant logistics facility in Uddingston in a move to give it greater control of its supply chain.
First Royal Navy crew joins HMS Glasgow in Govan
THE inaugural ship’s company of sailors and BAE Systems engineers are breathing life into the first of the UK’s next-generation warships.
City letting prices 'going crazy' with record rental levels
The residential property letting market in Glasgow and is “going crazy”, the head of a city centre agency has said, with rental prices soaring to record levels.
Riccardo Giovanacci of Newton Letting said monthly rents are achieving levels he has never experienced in his 15 years in the sector, with enquiry levels off the scale.
Insight, Opinion, Analysis
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Mark Williamson: Crunch time is looming for Scottish carbon capture cluster project
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Scott Wright: No help from Boris Johnson and co as Glasgow hotels battle to cope with COP26
Ian McConnell on Friday: In cost-of-living crisis Britain, further misery lies ahead
Brian Donnelly: Anger as Boris Johnson 'grants unfettered access' to UK market
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