Cruden Building and Renewals is underway with work on a £5.3 million housing development in Glasgow.

The contractor is building 52 'affordable' flats for Cube Housing in Kelvindale.

The project includes three energy-efficient flat blocks, one of which will be designed to provide 34 'amenity' units for older people. The two other blocks will contain a mix of flats with one to three bedrooms. Six ground-floor flats have been designed for wheelchair users and the first homes are to be completed in 2017.


The project is the seventh new-build scheme developed by Cube, which joined the Wheatley Group in 2012.

The site also forms the fourth phase of work at Maryhill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA), one of eight TRAs in the city earmarked as a priority for large-scale regeneration by Transforming Communities: Glasgow (TC:G).

Cube Chair Liz Ruine said: "One of our top priorities at Cube and across Wheatley Group is to increase the supply of affordable housing and give people a bigger choice of homes which suit their needs. This development will offer older people in the area the chance of getting amenity housing with a bit of extra support as well as some quality affordable flats for single people and families."

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