Work is underway on a £12 million contract to build a care home and veterans' centre in Renfrewshire.

CCG will deliver the 54-bed care home facility along with an activity/support centre for visually impaired veterans on the site of a former garden centre in Paisley.

The two projects are being carried out for charities Royal Blind and Scottish War Blinded.

Designed by the Unum Partnership centre, the Royal Blind care home has been organised in a layout of three pavilions to the north east and west and a gatehouse building to the south east providing access.

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A glazed passageway will provide access to the pavilions enclosing an inner sensory garden.

In addition, the Scottish War Blinded centre has been designed by Page Park Architects. It features a new gymnasium hall, a workshop, art room, living skills kitchen, IT room, therapy room and quiet garden room.

The facility will also feature ample green space including a bowling green, along with raised planting beds, benches, a greenhouse and a more informal path through the existing woodland to the west of the building.

The projects are due to be completed by summer 2017.

(LM)