East Renfrewshire

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.

A new sculpture is set to honour the contribution of Thomas Donohoe, originally from Busby, East Renfrewshire, credited with first introducing football to Brazil in 1894. Commissioned by East Renfrewshire Council, supported by Busby Community Council and funded from the Scottish Government's Town Ce

A beloved bronze statue of one of fiction’s most famous young boys will be reinstated within the grounds of a future housing development.

East Renfrewshire Council has approved an additional investment of £3 million for roads and pavement resurfacing improvements at 73 sites across the region. The programme will be carried out over and above the existing annual roads resurfacing works which were approved by the council in March.

East Renfrewshire Council has opened a public consultation ahead of a planning application being made for the development of a new leisure centre in Giffnock.

A new community hub – comprising a cafe, workshop, meeting space, office, kitchen, bike hire point and public toilets – is to be created in a disused public park gate house by Procast.

Plans have been unveiled to transform Caldwell House in East Renfrewshire into a retirement village.