A Glasgow City Deal project designed to improve greenspace and reduce flood risk, is a recipient of the Scottish Government’s Nature Restoration Fund. The project starting soon is the most recent phase of the Hillington and Cardonald Surface Water Management Plan and is expected to boost the attractiveness and biodiversity […]
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There has been a lot going on over the past four weeks. At last month’s Cabinet, the eight leaders agreed to a Regional approach to the management of the UK Government Shared Prosperity Fund, a funding stream that will replace the EU Structural funding. We will now proceed to recruiting a […]
In my last blog, I talked about the Region’s progress and achievements during 2021, culminating in the launch event in December of our new Regional Economic Strategy. Looking to this year, we will continue to build on this momentum, and in fact only a matter of weeks into 2022 there […]
Glasgow City Region has successfully secured £50,000 in grant funding from Transport Scotland through the Scottish Futures Trust to explore electric vehicle charging infrastructure requirements across the Region. The study will assess current charging provision and the need for further infrastructure to facilitate the transition to electric vehicles. The Scottish […]
Options that seek to make transport in Scotland more sustainable and support people to make better, more informed choices on how they travel have been set out in the Scottish Government’s blueprint for future transport investment, with mass transit plans for the Glasgow City Region badged as Clyde Metro, one […]
Work on a new transport interchange at Motherwell railway station will start early next year. Approval has been given by Glasgow City Region City Deal for the £2 million project, and North Lanarkshire Council has appointed Balfour Beatty Ltd to carry out the work. The project on Muir Street will […]
A forthcoming project that will better manage flood risk and improve greenspace in Cardonald has recently won the esteemed Building with Nature National Award at the Landscape Institute Awards 2021. The joint project between Southside Housing Association and Glasgow City Council through the City Deal backed Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage […]
Yesterday we celebrated an important milestone with the formal launch of our new Regional Economic Strategy(RES). Led by our Intelligence Hub, it is the result of months of extensive research and input from partners across our eight councils, government and their agencies, local universities, the business and third sectors. It […]
A new economic strategy launched today for Glasgow City Region is set to have a profound impact on wider public sector policy, decision-making and spend over the next ten years for the local area of 1.8 million residents and 50,000 businesses. The strategy sets the approach for how the Region […]
A Glasgow City Council committee today (25 November) awarded the contract for the Govan – Partick Bridge project to Farrans (Construction) Limited. This a Glasgow City Region City Deal project, with funding from the Scottish and UK Governments. The £29.5million project includes the construction of a new pedestrian/cycle bridge over […]