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…
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…
