The project, which will create Greenlaw Business Centre in Newton Mearns, will enable the council to increase its support for small businesses. Funded by Glasgow City Region City Deal, the facility is being built adjacent to the existing Greenlaw retail and commercial centre. Expected to be completed by early next…
Glasgow City Region’s Education Committee met this month (April 2018) for the second time. The Committee, chaired by Renfrewshire Council’s Deputy Leader, Cllr Jim Paterson, was pleased to note the strong performance of the region’s schools across a range of different measures. A report RIC presentation highlighted the particularly strong showing…
The April 2018 meeting of the City Deal Cabinet, the body responsible for oversight of the programme, presented an opportunity for the eight Council Leaders to reflect on progress to date. * Glasgow City Region Cabinet Chair and Leader Glasgow City Council, Susan Aitken shares her thoughts on progress Three years…
Plans to create an improved transport interchange at Motherwell railway station were approved by the Glasgow City Region Cabinet on Tuesday 10 April. The £3.5 million Glasgow City Region City Deal funding sought will contribute to a wider project that will see North Lanarkshire Council working alongside ScotRail Alliance and…
From today (8 March) Glasgow City Council will begin the procurement process for Glasgow City Region City Deal contracts for public realm infrastructure projects in Glasgow. The procurement is worth up to £130million, with individual contracts anticipated to range in value from £5million – £20million. The council will be seeking main contractors…
East Renfrewshire residents have shown great creative flair by getting involved in a community arts project to create an inspiring new boardwalk within Dams to Darnley Country Park. An exhibition displaying the creative concepts has been scheduled for 14-18 March at Barrhead Foundry and 19 March at The Avenue in Newton…
Renfrewshire Council’s Deputy Leader Cllr Jim Paterson was elected as convener of the newly established Glasgow City Region Education Committee at its first meeting in Glasgow on 15th January. The Committee, formally known as the West Partnership, held its first meeting where it endorsed the region’s initial educational improvement plan, setting…
A £190million roads’ programme approved by the Glasgow City Region cabinet yesterday will boost the regeneration of the former steelworks site at Ravenscraig and create 6,700 jobs. The approval for the strategic business case for the Pan-Lanarkshire Orbital project represents the biggest single roads and infrastructure investment in North Lanarkshire’s…
Renfrewshire will be home to the new £65million National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland (NMIS), with the University of Strathclyde announced as the anchor university. Work to build the centre, which will help manufacturing businesses throughout Scotland become world leaders in innovation, will begin in 2018. The centre at Inchinnan will…
A total of 121 sites across the whole of the UK pitched to become a logistics hub location – off-site centres for construction and manufacturing which will help the airport deliver its expansion plans. That list has now been whittled down to 65, including three in the Glasgow City Region: Heathrow…
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