Tontine based entrepreneur and Glasgow University alumni Dr Carla Brown, is celebrating her latest success after being shortlisted as a finalist in the Everywoman UK Tech Awards in their Entrepreneur category for her innovative work in technology within the health sector. Founder of Game Doctor, which was launched in 2016;…
An update on Skills and Employment from Councillor Ross, Leader of South Lanarkshire Council and Chair of the Glasgow City Region Skills and Employment Portfolio At last week’s Glasgow City Region Cabinet I was delighted to provide an update on work underway across the Region to support Skills and Employment…
February 2020 – Director’s Blog It’s been another busy month at Glasgow City Region. We had the Gateway Review Challenge session recently with our government partners – an opportunity to discuss our submission, review how the partnership is working and to look towards the next five years. I’m pleased to…
On a typically rainy day, pupils from Croftfoot Primary School were stars of the show, as they highlighted to a captive audience, their appreciation of brand new outdoor play space and equipment – made possible through a Glasgow City Region City Deal project to reduce flood risk and enhance greenspace…
The final design for the pedestrian bridge that will connect Govan and Partick is now complete. The bridge will span between Water Row in Govan and Pointhouse Quay at the Riverside Museum: while people crossed the river at this location for hundreds of years, they have been unable to do…
The £115 million city centre Avenues programme in Glasgow is without doubt a game-changer: the biggest active travel project in the UK, it will play a key role in ensuring that the city centre population rises over the next decade or so as we develop a transformed environment in the…
2020 Vision – Director’s Blog Last month I talked about the first five years of the UK and Scottish Government funded City Deal. This month I want to look ahead to the next five years and of course to our plans for 2020. The City Deal is a 20 year…
A City Deal project that will breathe new life into Tollcross Burn and improve greenspace within Sandyhills Park in Glasgow’s east end, is set to start in the New Year. Hidden, after being culverted through the park in the 1950’s – work to uncover a 425m section of Tollcross Burn…
Pupils from Aultmore Park Primary School headed out to Blairtummock Park today to mark the recent completion of the £7.4 million Greater Easterhouse Green Infrastructure Project which has created new greenspaces and enhanced those existing, by introducing surface water management features that will reduce the risks and impacts of flooding…
Enabling works to prepare an area of land for future redevelopment within Glasgow’s historic Meat Market site are underway. Part of the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal that will see investment of £27 million channelled through the Collegelands, Calton Barras project – work currently underway on a section…
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