Considerable City Deal success in 2020 and ambitious plans for 2021. Reflecting back on the past twelve months – it’s been a challenging year for us all and no less for the Region’s economy and businesses. Unsurprisingly the pandemic has had a knock on affect on our City Deal Programme too,…
Led by Southside Housing Association with support from a wide range of funders including Glasgow City Deal through the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership (MGSDP) – a £2.2m project to create Halfway Community Park in Cardonald has transformed underused greenspace surrounding Moss Heights flats, as well as reducing flood risk…
Glasgow City Council has approved the acceptance of up to £21.3million of funding from Sustrans – as part of the ‘Places for Everyone’ programme – for the Avenues Plus project, which will see the existing Avenues programme extended to connect the city centre to surrounding neighbourhoods. The project will cover…
When water voles set up home in the playground of St Benedict’s Primary School, a contractor working on City Deal surface water management projects in the local area stepped in to help, ensuring the children still had exciting outdoor play space to enjoy. In a bid to create play facilities…
November 2020 – Director’s Blog In the next few weeks we’ll be launching a new quarterly briefing from our Intelligence Hub, the first of which will focus on Place and include thought pieces from industry experts about the impact of the pandemic on the Housing, Retail and Commercial sectors. You…
Development of Scotland’s home for manufacturing innovation in Renfrewshire is progressing well. New bridges, roads, cycling and pedestrian routes are all under construction and expected to be open in May 2021 as Wills Bros Civil Engineering deliver the infrastructure underpinning the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS). The Glasgow Airport…
A City Deal project to ‘daylight’ Tollcross Burn and improve greenspace within Sandyhills Park is well underway and was recently delivered of a brand new pedestrian footbridge that will form a critical link between residential properties close by, and the park itself, spanning a new watercourse channel. The bridge arrived…
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…
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