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…
Reflections on Five Years of the City Deal With 2019 marking five years of the City Deal in operation, I wanted to reflect on how far we have come in that short time and how City Deal funding from the UK and Scottish Governments is already delivering social and economic…
Community benefits delivered under Glasgow City Council’s Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) has seen main site contractor Morgan Sindall, team up with training provider TIGERS to create a unique opportunity for young people to complete a 26 week training course within a live site environment. The Sighthill TRA is creating…
CodeClan first opened in Edinburgh in 2015; offering a solution to Scotland’s digital skills shortage by providing a continuous flow of job-ready developers via its intensive 16-week software development course. In order to replicate its successful operation in Glasgow, CodeClan set up in Tontine two years later after finding that…
Based in the Merchant City, Tontine supports and sustains the development of high-growth companies in the enabling technology, advanced design and manufacturing, and creative economy sectors. It attracts and nurtures high growth entrepreneurial talent and is host to many of Glasgow’s significant growth companies of the future, offering high-quality and…
Glasgow City Region and Climate Change Adaptation Climate Change is not something I’ve written about before. However, the recent announcement that Glasgow will next year host COP26 is a massive coup for the City Region and I was lucky enough to be involved in preparing our bid. It’s fitting that…
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