West Dunbartonshire

Proposals for a new £17 million education campus in Alexandria have been recommended for refusal by planning officials who have instructed councillors to concentrate on updating the existing school estate. West Dunbartonshire Council will decide later this month on the proposal which will incorpora

Twenty new flats for elderly and disabled residents in Clydebank have been given the go ahead. The proposal to build two blocks of four-storey flats, which will be linked by a central glazed lobby, was granted planning permission on Wednesday.

Chris McNeill, West Dunbartonshire Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) head of community health and care services, Councillor Gail Casey, chair of WD HSCP board, and Keith Redpath, WD HSCP chief officer, join other representatives for the official sod cutting at the site of the new multi-milli

Margaret Burgess MSP, Councillor Patrick McGlinchey and Councillor David McBride hand over the keys to representatives from the two businesses which have moved into the units Thirteen new workshops at Vale of Leven Industrial Estate were officially opened this week as the first businesses were welco

A £15.4 million project to build a new purpose-built education campus in Balloch has been submitted for planning. Holmes Miller, in tandem with Morgan Sindall and West Dunbartonshire Council, are behind plans for the Balloch Shared Campus, a new school on the site of the existing St Kessog’s Prim

Councillor David McBride New affordable housing in West Dunbartonshire will have to be built to a higher design standard than anywhere else in Scotland following a council decision.

Plans for the new West Dunbartonshire Council offices in Dumbarton took another step forward yesterday after planning permission for the project was granted by councillors. Work to transform the A-listed former Academy Building into modern, fit-for-purpose office space is now expected to start early

Councillors are to consider proposals to invest in creating new sport facilities across West Dunbartonshire. The plans include developing an all-weather athletics facility, football park and changing rooms at Posties Park in Dumbarton and the creation of a new synthetic pitch, pavilion and skate par

A total of 22 improvement projects to transform Dumbarton Rock and the waterfront could be approved next week. Councillors are to discuss an action plan for the area which was identified through a Scottish Government-funded Charrette held in the town in February.

BAM has been appointed by hub West Scotland to deliver a new £22 million leisure centre on the banks of the Clyde for West Dunbartonshire Council. Work has already started on the state of the art four-storey building, located in what was once the heart of Clydebank’s shipbuilding industry on the

Councillors are to consider proposals to create a £17 million state of the art education campus in Alexandria incorporating two schools, an early learning centre and a specialist language unit. The proposals would develop a new Riverside Early Learning and Childcare Centre and new Renton Primary Sc

Gordon Matheson Funding has been approved for over £900 million of infrastructure projects to be carried out under the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley City Deal package to boost the west of Scotland economy.

Cube Housing Association has announced plans to build 31 houses for social rent in Dumbarton.

Planning permission and listed building consent applications for a new West Dunbartonshire Council office building in Dumbarton have been submitted by Keppie Design. The £14.6 million project, being delivered by hub West Scotland in partnership with the council with architects Keppie and main contr

Morgan Sindall has started work on the first co-located primary school development in West Dunbartonshire. The campus will see Aitkenbar and St Peter's Primary School co-located along with a new Early Education and Childcare Centre (EECC) to replace the existing Andrew B Cameron and St Peter's centr