Renfrewshire Council’s Deputy Leader Cllr Jim Paterson was elected as convener of the newly established Glasgow City Region Education Committee at its first meeting in Glasgow on 15th January. The Committee, formally known as the West Partnership, held its first meeting where it endorsed the region’s initial educational improvement plan, setting…
A £190million roads’ programme approved by the Glasgow City Region cabinet yesterday will boost the regeneration of the former steelworks site at Ravenscraig and create 6,700 jobs. The approval for the strategic business case for the Pan-Lanarkshire Orbital project represents the biggest single roads and infrastructure investment in North Lanarkshire’s…
Renfrewshire will be home to the new £65million National Manufacturing Institute for Scotland (NMIS), with the University of Strathclyde announced as the anchor university. Work to build the centre, which will help manufacturing businesses throughout Scotland become world leaders in innovation, will begin in 2018. The centre at Inchinnan will…
A total of 121 sites across the whole of the UK pitched to become a logistics hub location – off-site centres for construction and manufacturing which will help the airport deliver its expansion plans. That list has now been whittled down to 65, including three in the Glasgow City Region: Heathrow…
The Strategic Infrastructure Summit, held at Glasgow City Chambers on Monday 18 September, was the first of its kind in Scotland and kick-started a commitment to closer collaboration between all organisations. The aim is to strategically align projects to deliver enhanced benefits to residents across the Glasgow city region as…
August 11th marked the first anniversary of companies moving into the Tontine, an innovation centre in Glasgow that supports the growth of companies in the enabling technology, advanced design and manufacturing, and creative economy sectors. The Tontine was the first Glasgow City Region City Deal project to open in Glasgow, and…
Glasgow City Council today (17 August) gave the green light to the next stage of investment into the regeneration of the river Clyde with the approval of a quay walls strategy for the river. Almost £50million of funding from the Glasgow City Region City Deal – focused on a stretch…
Internationally acclaimed Tony Kettle has drawn on the area’s rich shipbuilding heritage to develop a new road bridge between Renfrew, Clydebank and Yoker as part of a major infrastructure investment project. The bridge, which will open for passing ships and accommodate vehicles, pedestrians and cyclists, is a key component of…
Authorities in Renfrewshire, West Dunbartonshire and Glasgow will consider the details of the £90.7million Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside project, which aims to regenerate the Clyde Waterfront as an attractive area supporting residential, industrial, business, retail and leisure opportunities. It includes construction of the only opening road bridge across the…
Events and exhibitions over the past 12 months on the Clyde Waterfront and Renfrew Riverside and Glasgow Airport Investment Area projects have caught the public imagination. And support has soared for the Renfrewshire-led Glasgow City Region City Deal projects following public exhibitions in Renfrew, Paisley, Clydebank and Yoker last month.…
