Morgan Sindall has won a £36.5 million contract to carry out infrastructure work as part of a major regeneration project in Glasgow.

The £250m Sighthill Transformational Regeneration Area (TRA) scheme aims to create around 800 new homes over the next few years, including a new community school campus, a new footbridge across the M8, a new road bridge across the railway to link Sighthill and Port Dundas, and improved parkland, allotments and public spaces.

Morgan Sindall will deliver construction works for roads, earthworks, utilities, drainage, landscaping and public realm as part of the development. In addition, the firm will develop new greenspace throughout the area, as well as new cycle paths.

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Work will begin next month and completion is expected in early 2019.

Council Leader Frank McAveety said: "It is great to see the regeneration of Sighthill - the biggest such project in the UK outside of London - progressing so well. Shortly after the turn of the decade, we will see the completion of all of this work, with fantastic new homes and a new school campus set in a 'green' environment, featuring new bridges connecting the community to the city centre and surrounding neighbourhoods. I look forward to the next stage of the transformation of this area being delivered through this contract."

The next Sighthill SRA contract is to be awarded in early 2017 and includes the construction of a new road bridge across the Glasgow - Edinburgh Railway, and connecting roads.

(LM)