Building Briefs - November 23rd
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- Safety improvement work for Cornton level crossing
Network Rail will soon carry out vital improvement work at Cornton level crossing to further enhance safety for both road and rail users.
Work will take place over two weekends in December to prepare the site for the installation of an upgraded full-barrier system, with remote sensing technology, to replace the current half-barrier crossing.
This complex work – which involves signalling and track changes as well as the installation of a new building – cannot take place without the short-term closure of the crossing.
The B823/Cornton Road will be closed from 23:30 on Friday, December 4, until 06:00 on Monday, December 7, then from 23:30 on Friday, December 11, until 06:00 on Monday, December 14.
Diversionary routes will be in place for motorists and pedestrians during the works.
- Glentana Mill consultation opens
The future of the former Glentana Mill site in Alva is the subject of a public consultation.
The online consultation, which opens on November 25 and is run by Clackmannanshire Council in partnership with Architecture and Design Scotland, seeks to gather views on potential uses for the site, such as housing.
This exercise will build on previous consultation with the community undertaken in 2019 leading to the streetscape improvement works which have been carried out on Brook Street and are now planned for Stirling Street.
The consultation is a questionnaire based on the Place Standard tool, which can help support the design and delivery of successful places, helping to create good-quality places where people want to live.
The Glentana Mill was built in 1873 as the Dalmore Works and specialised in the production of shawls, tweeds and tailor-made ladieswear. The current single-storey building is all that remains of a much larger complex and dates from the 1940s. In the 1990s the building was home to the Mill Trail Visitors Centre and was vacated in January 2019 when the then tenant relocated.
- Essential resurfacing and drainage improvement work between Logie Coldstone and Tillypronie
Aberdeenshire Council is advising motorists that further essential road repairs and drainage improvements will begin on the A97 Logie Coldstone to Tillypronie from November 30 for two weeks.
They are part of the approved annual road maintenance programme for the Marr area and will allow us to further improve the road conditions at this location.
Works will include edge strengthening, carriageway resurfacing and drainage improvements with additional gullies, filter drainage and carrier pipes being installed.
Engineers anticipate completion in less than the allocated two weeks, however as resurfacing works are very much reliant on reasonable weather conditions, the decision has been taken to promote a formal two-week road closure period.
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