A round up of some of the Building at Risk news stories over the past few days...

Conversion of Hamilton Hall hoped to commence in October.

The Courier reports the £35 million repair and conversion of Hamilton Hall, which overlooks The Old Course in St Andrews, is hoped to commence in October.

The article goes on to note the proposals, which includes a public bar/ dining area and 26 flats, have been received well locally, and subject to remaining issues being resolved, hope to commence in October for completion around May 2012.

Hamilton Hall was latterly in use as student accomodation, then sold by St Andrews University in 2004, to a developer for conversion to holiday accomodation. Having lain vacant since its sale, the building was added to the Buildings at Risk Register in 2008.

The continuing disuse of the prominently sited building has been of considerable concern to local residents, and its condition has also been monitored by Fife Council and Historic Scotland.

Read the buildings BARR entry here.

Glen O'Dee hosiptal redevelopment plans given the go ahead by Scottish Ministers.

The category A-listed Glen O’Dee Hospital, in Banchory, will contain 19 homes and will replicate the structure as it would have been around 1915.

The applications were lodged with Aberdeenshire Council in 2005. In 20...06 a consortium formed by The National Trust, The Prince's Regeneration Trust and Glen O'Dee Building Preservation Trust called upon the council to refuse the applications to demolish. In March 2007, Aberdeenshire councillors approved the development and it was subsequently called in by Scottish Ministers.

The timber-clad hospital was built in the late 19th century and was Scotland’s first tuberculosis sanatorium. It was subsequently a luxury hotel, a billet for troops during World War II and a convalescent hospital.

The hospital was finally closed in 1990 and has been on the Buildings at Risk Register since 1993.

Read more here and check the building's BARR entry

The first phase of a restoration project to breathe new life into a historic Glasgow shipyard building has been completed.

Boards will be removed from the windows of the Fairfield Shipyard Offices, Govan, following £1.64m of repairs. The A-listed structure, which dates back to 1890, fell into disrepair after being closed in 2001.
Its new owners - Govan Workspace - aim to transform the building into an office complex and heritage centre.

In its heyday, the Fairfield yard produced passenger liners such as Cunard's SS Campania as well as naval ships such as HMS Indomitable.

Read more here or at the Buildings at Risk website