East Renfrewshire

A proposed new learning campus that will bring Neilston and St Thomas' primaries and Madras Family Centre together on a shared site has been granted planning permission.

Members of the community are being encouraged to help shape plans for the redevelopment of the site of the former Mearnskirk House Care Home in Newton Mearns via a virtual consultation.

The winners of a design competition created by the homebuilders behind the Maidenhill consortium have now been announced after pupils at St. Ninian’s High School and Mearns Castle High School got to work on a sculpture to welcome visitors and residents to development. CALA Homes (West) and Tay

Barrhead Housing Association has welcomed the first tenants to its new affordable homes built by Bellway at Rosemont Park.

The junction and access road into Maidenhill has been completed and is now fully operational following a significant programme of works on the A726 Glasgow Southern Orbital (GSO), Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has confirmed.

Planning permission has been granted to build a new Eastwood Leisure Centre and theatre.

Glasgow construction firm City Building has won a £1 million contract with East Renfrewshire Council that will secure employment for more than 150 staff with a disability or learning difference.

A development of 42 new affordable homes in Newton Mearns has been completed by Sanctuary Scotland. The homes at Mallets Rise feature a mix of one and two-bedroom flats, alongside two, three and four-bedroom houses.

The Green Hydrogen for Scotland partnership has secured £9.4m of funding through the Storage at Scale competition run by the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS).

As Taylor Wimpey West Scotland’s significant programme of local road infrastructure improvements at Springfield Road, Springhill Road and the 5 Ways Junction in Barrhead is completed, last week local MSP Tom Arthur (minister for public finance, planning & community welfare) visited to see

Construction work is expected to get underway on the £63 million electrification of the Barrhead corridor in April 2022 after the programme was given the green light.

A planning application has now been submitted by East Renfrewshire Council seeking approval for building a new Eastwood Leisure Centre and theatre.

Amey has secured a three-year contract to continue works to upgrade, maintain and repair the street lights for East Renfrewshire Council.

New plans have been unveiled to create a walkway on the banks of an East Renfrewshire reservoir following a soar in visitors numbers and a change in the way people use the area. East Renfrewshire Council said its revised £19.5 million upgrade will redevelop Aurs Road to create improved wa

East Renfrewshire Good Causes has received its second funding boost from its charity partners at Maidenhill. It comes just months after it was announced the consortium of homebuilders behind the development would be extending its support of the charity into the coming year and beyond.