Page 4 - Clair Ramage News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

ELECTED officials have overruled the council’s planning officers after backing a proposal near a Borders village due to “exceptional…

Hopes have risen for the return of buildings-based day care services for older people across the Borders after a review was announced.

The vigil is part of a Global 16 Days of Activism Campaign which starts on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women and…

PLANS for the Lowood Estate have moved a step forward following a meeting of Scottish Borders Council’s (SBC) planning committee. In 2019, the council revealed it had purchased the land south of the River Tweed for £9.6 million the previous year. Some at the time suggested that SBC had overpaid. The estate, near Tweedbank, has since been earmarked for a housing development and industrial estate – with the 34-hectare site allocated for mixed use development in the 2016 local development plan. And on Monday (May 31), SBC’s planning and building standards committee unanimously app...

A BORDERS councillor last week criticised a question from another elected member as “dangerous” and “damaging”.