Building Briefs - May 17th
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- JR Group tees off support for Glasgow golf competition
The JR Group is to support a Glasgow golf club as main sponsor of its Junior Masters Golf Event this summer.
Scheduled for the 23rd and 24th June – the Pollok Junior Masters, in association with ProDreamUSA and lead sponsors The JR Group, will take place across 54 holes and is a must-enter competition for the country’s top junior golfers.
Taking place at one of Scotland’s finest inland courses, the competition is open to talented girls and boys under the age of 18 and is a World Amateur Golf Ranking (WAGR) counting event.
John Horne, managing director for The JR Group, said: “As a business The JR Group works hard to promote sport for young people across a number of disciplines. We are delighted therefore, to become the main sponsor for the upcoming Junior Masters at Pollok Golf Club.
“Pollok Golf Club work very hard to support young players to hone their talent in the sport and provide them with opportunities to progress, something we are thrilled to back through this summer’s competition.
“We have some fantastic young players coming through in Scotland who will hopefully go onto achieve great things as future internationalists, or even professionals in the sport. Our sponsorship supports the endeavours of Pollok Golf Club to give those players the best opportunity to fulfil their potential.”
- Summer opening for Ravenscraig public park
The new public park being created at Ravenscraig is on schedule to open in time for the school summer holidays.
The £3.7 million park is being built by North Lanarkshire Council, as part of its plans to regenerate the former steelworks site.
It will include a play area, sensory garden, visitor hub with a disabled toilet and a cafe, events area, a network of walking and cycling routes, a multi sports pitch and an outdoor gym. A feature path will be created along the line of the historic steel strip mill, and seating areas will be located throughout the park.
The play area will have climbing walls, swings, trampolines, bouncing discs, a climbing tower, zip slide, talk tubes, balance beams and posts, incorporating accessible facilities for children and young people with mobility issues.
Local school pupils and community groups have been invited to choose the name of the new park and the play area within it, and this will be announced before the park opens in July.
Funding for the park project has come from the Scottish Government’s Vacant and Derelict Land Fund and the council.
- Empty Glasgow shop to be used by theatre school
Glasgow City Council has approved a plan to change empty retail premises into a theatre school.
Theatre School of Scotland’s application will see 41 Stockwell Place divided into four studios, three singing rooms as well as a reception area and ancillary facilities.
A statement submitted to the city council argued: “Given its location and amount of floor space to be given over to the proposed use, [the proposal] would not have a significant impact upon the range of shopping and retail facilities in the city centre.”
- Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland launches free digital project management tool for self-builders
Saint-Gobain UK and Ireland has released a free online Self-Build Manager to help self-builders project manage the build process of their dream home.
Running a self-build project on time and on budget is the dream for every self-builder. But it can prove to be overwhelming, time-consuming and complicated. The Saint-Gobain Self-Build Manager takes the hassle out of project management with its easy-to-use system which keeps everything you need for your project in one place.
Self-builders can upload and securely store and share design plans, documents and images, manage tasks and set deadlines by inviting other members or trades involved in the project.
The online tool can be accessed via the Saint-Gobain Self-Build website, which has a wide range of advice, insight and case studies from other self-builders all aimed at helping self-builders to manage the build of their dream, comfortable and efficient home from start to finish.
Saint-Gobain UK & Ireland, through its 36 brands provides almost everything needed to create a self-build home. Services, such as Build Aviator’s estimating and scheduling or Scotframe’s whole timber frame help make life easy for self-builders.
Register for the Self-Build Manager tool here.
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