PLANS for a major housing development -- including nearly 50 houses -- are being proposed for the Balrossie House site in Kilmacolm.  |  Read more

INVERCLYDE Planning Board has given permission for the rundown historic main buildings at Ravenscraig Hospital, Greenock, to be knocked down. The site is earmarked for housing, including 150 properties for social rent. |  More detail in previous story

A HOUSING association has lodged detailed proposals for 44 flats on the site of the former Highlanders' Academy in Greenock.  |  Read more

PLANNERS are being asked to let a former Greenock pub be turned into a shop.

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INVERCLYDE planning officials say that NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde should be allowed to demolish the historic main buildings at Ravenscraig Hospital, Greenock. Councillors are to due have the final say next week.  |  Read more

COFFEE shop/wine bar Cairn in Lochwinnoch Road, Kilmacolm has been given planning permission for seating on the footway outside the premises. The application was approved by Inverclyde Council.

A PLAN for a pet crematorium at a local farm has been submitted to Inverclyde Council.  |  Read more

A DEVELOPER wants to build an extra property at a new housing estate in Gourock, to provide a specially-adapted bungalow for injured Greenock firefighter Andy Adams.  |  Read more

A CHARITY has  been given permission to turn a former nursery in an Inverclyde village into a primary school.  | Read more

OAK Tree Housing Association has been given permission to expand its office in High Street, Greenock into an empty hair-dressing salon next door. The change-of-use application for more meeting and office space was approved by Inverclyde Council planners.