Building Briefs – July 20th

  • Sanitiser purchase just the tonic for CALA Homes

An independent distillery has supplied a prominent homebuilder with hand sanitiser, helping it to carry out a careful reopening of sales suites throughout the east of Scotland.

Building Briefs – July 20th

CALA sales manager Amelia Hancock with a bottle of the sanitiser

CALA Homes (East) has purchased an initial 60 litres of Nil By Mouth – a hand sanitiser produced by NB Distillery in North Berwick, which at 80% proof is made to WHO guidelines and was created during lockdown to help with the coronavirus response.



The tie-up will see the hand and surface sanitiser used across CALA’s developments in its East of Scotland region, which includes high-profile sites in Edinburgh and Midlothian; as well as five in East Lothian, most of which are within 10 miles of the distillery.

As part of CALA’s careful reopening of its sales suites, hand sanitiser stations will feature throughout as part of new health and safety measures, along with protective screens and new signage to help customers navigate the sales suites safely, while maintaining social distancing.

The developer is also urging all house hunters to book an appointment in advance, to allow it to stagger visits and to ensure it can carry out its increased cleaning programme, with time dedicated between each appointment to allow a thorough clean to take place.

NB Distillery is best known for its award winning NB London Dry Gin, previously voted “Best London Dry Gin” at the World Gin Awards and selected to feature as part of the Queen’s 90th birthday celebrations and is featured in Prince Harry and Meghan’s wedding album.



 

  • £3.2m project work to tackle Eyemouth sewer flooding to restart

Scottish Water will restart work on its £3.2 million investment to improve the waste water infrastructure in Eyemouth to protect against flooding.

The work was due to start in March but was postponed due to the COVID-19 lockdown. It will start next Monday (27 July) in line with changes to Scottish Government guidance.



The project will increase the capacity of the sewer network to better protect properties and streets from external and internal flooding. It is due to last around eight months.

A small number of properties in the town have experienced internal flooding at times of heavy rainfall, which can overwhelm the sewer network. 

One hundred and twenty metres of larger sewer pipes will be installed along Church Street and a new underground storm water storage tank will be built under the public car park.

The project will be delivered by Scottish Water’s alliance partner amey Black& Veatch (aBV).



 

  • Success for £30m pop-up infrastructure initiative

The Spaces for People initiative has now closed to further applications. The entirety of the £30 million Scottish Government package for temporary walking and cycling routes, which enables physical distancing during the COVID-19 crisis, has now been allocated or bid for.

As of 10 July, Sustrans Scotland has awarded a total of £29,603,681 pounds to local authorities and statutory bodies through the Spaces for People programme on behalf of the Scottish Government. With the fund now closed, we are also considering repurposing a final amount of funding from the active travel budget for additional bids in the pipeline amounting to £8,647,487.



The Spaces for People programme, administered by Sustrans Scotland, offered 100% funding to put in place temporary measures to enable physical distancing while walking, wheeling and cycling. It also provided applicants with guidance on the use of legislation to allow delivery at rapid pace – in addition to specialist advice from the Scottish Government and Sustrans on topics including construction, public health, equalities and communications to support urgent implementation.

Scotland’s towns and cities are now facilitating temporary active travel infrastructure, supporting a rapid increase in cycling rates and to create space on pavements due to physical distancing requirements. By doing so, we also support the conditions to encourage greater rates of walking, wheeling and cycling in the future – which in turn helps to manage demand on our public transport network.


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