The preferred development partner to deliver the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes Village has been named by Glasgow City Council.

The City Legacy consortium will be considered at a meeting of the council on Friday 26 June.

The development of the 38.5 hectares site in Dalmarnock, in the heart of the Clyde Gateway project, is a key component in the delivery of the Games.

The Village will provide accommodation and facilities for 6,500 competitors and officials.

After the Games, the Village will become a desirable new residential community including private housing, 300 homes for rent and a new 120 bed care home for the elderly.

The removal of the temporary facilities within the Athletes' Village after the Games will release additional land for further residential development.

According to the council the proposal for the Village has high design and environmental standards and will deliver a highly desirable new residential neighbourhood within Glasgow's East End.

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The masterplan submitted by City Legacy will deliver a 95% reduction in carbon emissions from the new homes to be constructed - a first in Scotland for a development of this scale, of over 1400 homes and the care home.

The City Legacy consortium is made of the following partners: CCG, Cruden, Mactaggart & Mickel, and W H Malcolm (Developers and contractors), Davis Langdon LLP (Bid, Project and Cost Management), RMJM (Masterplanners and Design Champions), WSP Consulting (Engineers), Turley Associates (Community Benefit and Town Planning advice), Burness LLP (Legal advisors), Scottish and Southern Energy (Utilities infrastructure and sustainability) and JLL (Property Development advice).

Councillor Steven Purcell, Leader of Glasgow City Council, said: "The Athletes' Village will be one of the most recognisable aspects of the legacy of the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games - and certainly one of the most important - and I am delighted to say that the process to identify a development partner attracted a number of absolutely outstanding masterplans.

"The fact that the private sector has demonstrated such confidence in this project shows that Glasgow continues to be an attractive place to do business, and I look forward to the successful delivery of a key part of the Games and later, the creation of a stunning new neighbourhood for the city as Glasgow’s regeneration continues."

Construction on the Athletes' Village will begin in Autumn 2010.

(GK)