Inverclyde

Assembly of the superstructure of the new Larkfield Early Learning Centre in Greenock is well underway with the project as a whole progressing well.

The site of a former power station at Inverkip could provide the location for a new ‘urban village’, subject to the outcome of a planning application submitted to Inverclyde Council by ScottishPower.

Work to create a Centre of Excellence for elective orthopaedic surgery at Inverclyde Royal Hospital is now under way.

The professional services of civil and structural specialist Dougall Baillie Associates (DBA) have been enlisted to advise on a significant upgrade to accommodation at one of Scotland’s most picturesque and dramatically-situated lighthouses.

A school in the heart Greenock town centre has reopened following a £6 million transformation.

River Clyde Homes has demolished another three of the ‘stub’ blocks in Port Glasgow in order to make way for new housing. 

Parents, carers and toddlers in south west Greenock will soon be enjoying the benefits of a brand new nursery, as work starts this month on the £2.8 million Larkfield Early Learning Centre.

River Clyde Homes (RCH) has successfully handed over 24 new homes to customers during lockdown after work by Cruden Building.

Work is set to start next month on a £2.4 million extension to the Rainbow Family Centre (Park Farm) in Port Glasgow, Inverclyde.

Cloch Housing has appointed The McDougall Group as its new contractor for both its reactive and voids contracts. 

Groundwork to prepare the historic IBM Greenock site for a potential £100 million residential and commercial transformation has begun in earnest. The site at Spango Valley, which is owned by Sandy & James Easdale and Advance Construction, is currently subject to a planning application for

Five housing developers have succeeded in challenging a chapter of the Inverclyde Local Development Plan concerning housing land supply on the ground of inappropriate methodology. 

Emergency repairs and maintenance contractor Home Fix Scotland (HFS) has moved swiftly to assist Cloch Housing Association after its own contractor unexpectedly announced it was no longer able to provide an emergency repairs service.

On June 3, the Court of Session handed down a landmark judgment in the case of Gladman Developments Limited v Scottish Ministers in which it upheld the use of the ‘tilted balance’ in cases where there is a shortfall in the housing land supply. Burges Salmon’s Scottish planning and

The first phase of Oak Tree Housing Association’s ambitious plan to deliver 200 affordable homes across Greenock has been completed with the opening of Auchmead Road.