HILLHOUSE Group has secured the £1.72 million Glasgow City Council contract for the North Hanover Street and Kyle Street avenue project.
Work is set to begin in May and is scheduled for completion in November, with it set to improve connections between the north of Glasgow and the city centre.
The work will see the introduction of high-quality pavements and road surfaces alongside segregated cycle lanes, new places to rest, the planting of trees, and the avenue being connected to a wider network of active travel routes in Glasgow.
Elsewhere in the city, the local authority said that the Sauchiehall and Cambridge Street avenues project is nearing completion – with all works set to be completed around the end of April. Additional ‘finishing touch’ works including the installation of new street furniture and street lighting will then be installed in the following weeks.
The Holland Street avenue project is also drawing to a close, with final works to take place in the coming weeks, the local authority added.
Councillor Angus Millar, convener for city centre recovery and transport at Glasgow City Council, said, “We’re entering a new phase of this transformational project, with some early avenues now nearing completion and new sections commencing.
“North Hanover Street, like the Duke Street Avenue already underway, is about making those entry points into our city centre much more attractive. But these are also increasingly residential locations, so it’s about improving city centre areas where more people are choosing to live.
“At the same time, we’re nearing the end of the construction of Sauchiehall Street Avenue, with the substantial works to be competed and the street reopened around the end of this month, followed by a few weeks of continuing snagging works and street furniture installation. And Glaswegians will see the transformational impact of the avenues when the Holland Street project completes in the coming weeks.
“As the avenues work ramps up and the restoration of George Square gets set to begin, we’ll be publishing up to date information on our website on the progress of the Avenues. This will help the public and businesses find out how this might impact them. But also, how the city is pushing on with the biggest overhaul of the city centre in half a century.”
