Building Briefs – April 24th

Demolition works are soon to start which will enable work to get underway on a site in Dundee which will transform the look of the Hilltown.

Robertson Partnership Homes has this month started work on a development at Derby Street that will bring 163 new homes to the city.

The Derby Street development, a partnership between Hillcrest Housing Association and Dundee City Council, will address the need for affordable housing in the city.

Work is now underway and the estimated completed date for the development is December 2020.

History of North Edinburgh lays future foundations at Pennywell

Memorabilia belonging to primary pupils and retired residents in North Edinburgh has been buried in the foundations of new homes under construction in Pennywell.

The housing is being developed by the City of Edinburgh Council in partnership with regeneration firm Urban Union at the Pennywell Living development in Muirhouse.

Primary 5 pupils at Craigroyston Primary School and residents of Bield’s Brookwell Court Retirement Housing development were asked by Urban Union to collect items they felt best represented the local area in 2018. The items would then be homed in a time capsule to be discovered by future generations of the local area.

Photographs, football match tickets, books, coins and food wrappers were amongst the items secured in a special time capsule that was buried in the foundations of the second phase of the Pennywell Living development during a special event that took place on 18 April 2018.

Urban Union has a wide selection of modern affordable homes and apartments available at the development.

The City of Edinburgh Council has homes for social and mid-market rent at Pennywell. Phase 2 is currently under construction with a range of houses and flats available over the next few months.

Final plans submitted for 41 Dundee homes

Detailed plans have been submitted to Dundee City Council for a development which would see 41 homes built next to a primary school in Claverhouse.

Ogilvie Homes wants to deliver a mixture of three-bedroom detached and semi-detached houses, as well as four-bedroom detached properties, to the east of Barns of Claverhouse Road.

The site is encompassed by homes on John Grahame Avenue, Atholl Glen Yard and Silver Button Yard to the south, Mill o’ Mains Primary School to the north and Claverhouse Industrial Estate to the east.

The firm had originally planned to build townhouses on the site but said following consultation with the local authority at a pre-application meeting that a more interesting “street-scape” could be created. Three and four-bedroom detached and semi-detached houses are now planned for the site.

A similar development to build 35 homes on the nearby site of a former office block was approved by the council in 2015.

The proposals will likely go before the council’s planning committee for consideration this year.

Irishman steels the show at ScotPlant

Robert Miley from Capethorn Developments in County Dublin walked away with the gallon of Grouse whisky on Saturday with the best time at Sibbald Training’s JCB Challenge.

His time of 47 seconds was the best over the two-day show.

The Lighthouse Fund shall benefit to the tune of £475 as it is Sibbald’s preferred charity and has been for many years.

Mactaggart & Mickel chooses Cheltenham for English hub

Mactaggart & Mickel Homes England has chosen the iconic Cheltenham House offices in Cheltenham to act as a new hub for the company as it expands into the English housebuilding market.

The firm’s move to occupy the fourth floor at Cheltenham House will initially create around 20 full-time jobs for local people, as well as providing supply chain opportunities for construction companies in the Oxfordshire area.

Mactaggart & Mickel Homes England recently received planning permission for its first development of 62 new homes in Milton under Wychwood in Witney, Oxfordshire and work will begin on site shortly. It has also just been granted planning permission for its second development to build 38 new homes in East Challow in Oxfordshire.

Berwickshire wind farm rejection overturned

An eight-turbine wind farm in the Scottish Borders has been approved on appeal.

Councillors had rejected the project north of Howpark Farmhouse near Grantshouse claiming the area was already “saturated” with such schemes.

However, developers appealed against that decision to the Scottish Government.

A reporter has now concluded that the project can proceed with a string of conditions attached.