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A deal to transfer ownership of land at ExxonMobil’s former Esso site in Bowling to West Dunbartonshire Council has been completed. The transfer marks a significant milestone for the £34 million Glasgow City Region City Deal project, and will mean plans to transform the site by creating a major industrial…

October 2020 – Director’s Blog The scale of the challenge for the Region from Covid-19 is substantial. While no country or region has been spared, we know what is ahead of us is not going to be easy and will involve job losses, redundancies, significant risks to businesses in certain…

The designers of a City Deal project to prepare the former Diageo distillery site at Port Dundas for new homes to be built have scooped a top award for Public Realm/Landscaping at this year’s Scottish Design Awards. Blyth and Blyth Engineers, rankinfraser landscape architecture, and Foto-Ma lighting designers were acknowledged…

Last year marked practical completion of the Greater Easterhouse Green Infrastructure Project which introduced surface water management features in the local area to reduce the risks and impacts of flooding as well as creating drainage capacity for housing-led regeneration. The project also sought to boost biodiversity and active travel appeal…

September 2020 – Director’s Blog We have two immediate priorities at Glasgow City Region, both equally as pressing. The first is to re-set our City Deal infrastructure programme in light of recent delays and the changes that need to be implemented as a result of Covid-19. And secondly, we are…

Councillors have today (6 August 2020) approved an award of up to £10m City Deal funding to Transport Scotland, for the planned refurbishment of High Street train station. The funding, part of £27m committed to the Collegelands, Calton Barras City Deal project, will be used to meet the cost of…

June 2020 – Director’s Blog Recent events have been unprecedented. But I wanted to update you on some recent positive developments at the City Region and also on work underway to help to rebuild our economy. Firstly, you’ll be aware of the new group established for the city, the Glasgow…

Gateway Review milestone success unlocks £250 million City Deal funding Glasgow City Region today announced a £250 million funding boost for vital infrastructure work which will help kick start the Region’s post Covid-19 economic recovery and play a key part in supporting thousands of jobs and businesses across the Region.…

Forty pupils from across Glasgow City Region Schools attended an event at the University of Strathclyde to learn about Economics, how it is applied in a practical context and the type of jobs available from studying it. The event, held at the beginning of March, was hosted by a team…

Tontine based tech enterprise Nudge Exchange, are delighted to be one of only eight young businesses to have secured a place on the TechX Accelerator Programme at the Oil & Gas Technology Centre in Aberdeen – a partnership with Equinor, BP and KPMG that invests in and supports those start-ups…