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…
Director’s Update on recent developments at Glasgow City Region It really has been a busy few weeks. Last month the Annual Conversation meeting with Government took place to review the performance of our City Deal for the past financial year. This meeting provides an opportunity for our Government funders…
Glasgow City Region continues economic transformation This month (October 2019) the Glasgow City Region Cabinet considered further significant progress in work underway to transform the Regional economy, including in the delivery of the UK and Scottish Government funded £1.13 billion City Deal – one of the largest and most advanced…
Work to prepare the former Diageo distillery site at Port Dundas, close to the Forth and Clyde Canal is now complete, paving the way for widespread regeneration in North Glasgow that will see new homes built over the coming years. House-builders are expected to be on site at Dundashill early…
The use of cutting edge technology to transform Glasgow City Region over the next 15 years was at the heart of discussions at a major summit. Leaders and decision-makers from key utility providers and eight local authorities joined together to develop plans and discuss future developments, to ensure the economic…
Sauchiehall Avenue, on Sauchiehall Street between Charing Cross and Rose Street, the first of the ‘Avenues’ to be delivered across Glasgow city centre in a £115million programme – the biggest of its kind in the UK – funded by the Glasgow City Region City Deal, is now complete. The project…
An update from the Director of Regional Economic Growth I wanted to use this month’s Blog to provide an update on important work underway across the Region on the issue of tackling Child Poverty. Child Poverty is of course an unacceptable reality, with nearly one in four children in Scotland…
A new manufacturing district in Renfrewshire which will create thousands of new jobs for the sector took a step closer as work started on site. The Advanced Manufacturing Innovation District Scotland (AMIDS) will be based next to Glasgow Airport and is expected to put Renfrewshire at the heart of Scotland’s…
Providing an intensive and integrated package of employability support, the Working Matters pilot has helped thousands of Glasgow City Region residents begin the journey into sustainable employment. Working together with a personal adviser, those on the Working Matters programme could discuss in confidence any barriers to working and explore a…
The latest Director’s Blog Remarkably this month marks five years since the City Deal agreement was signed by the partnership of eight councils with the UK and Scottish Governments. We still remain the largest City Deal in Scotland and by far one of the largest in the UK, in terms…
