{"id":52835,"date":"2019-02-21T11:42:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T11:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=52835"},"modified":"2019-02-21T11:42:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T11:42:03","slug":"falkirk-gateway-developer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/falkirk-gateway-developer\/52835\/","title":{"rendered":"Falkirk Gateway project appoints preferred developer"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><a style=\"text-decoration-line: underline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgplc.co.uk\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-52844 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Falkirk-Gateway-project-appoints-preferred-developer.jpeg\" alt=\"Falkirk Gateway,\" width=\"562\" height=\"316\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Falkirk-Gateway-project-appoints-preferred-developer.jpeg 562w, https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Falkirk-Gateway-project-appoints-preferred-developer-300x169.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 562px) 100vw, 562px\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hsgplc.co.uk\/\">Hargreaves Services plc<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/fintryestates.co.uk\/\">Fintry Estates Ltd<\/a> have been appointed as the preferred developer for the Falkirk Gateway project<\/h2>\n<p>Initial plans for the Falkirk Gateway project suggested by the preferred developers have highlighted large scale retail units, office space, leisure space, a hotel site, and food and drink units including a concept pub\/restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>Councillor Cecil Meiklejohn, Leader of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.falkirk.gov.uk\/\">Falkirk Council<\/a> said: \u201cOur plans to completely redevelop this area are making great progress and with the appointment of the developer, we are a significant step closer to creating new opportunities for the local economy and jobs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe creation of an \u2018urban quarter\u2019 at the Westfield\/Middlefield site will transform the vacant area (lying between Falkirk and Grangemouth) and bring the 30 acre site into a location that will help promote economic growth. The capital receipts from the site will be ring-fenced to aid the revitalisation of town centres.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Keith Aitken, Avison Young who represented Falkirk Council commented: \u201cFalkirk Gateway is a significant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/housing-investment-falkirk\/51645\/\">development opportunity for Falkirk<\/a> and the wider Central Scotland region. It benefits from excellent transport links and proximity to the Helix &amp; The Kelpies, Falkirk Stadium and the town centre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposals for the site will act as a further catalyst for economic growth and will prove to be a complimentary neighbour to the new Forth Valley College.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Falkirk Council is using the Tax Incremental Finance scheme (TIF) to fund road infrastructure and enabling works around the Falkirk Gateway. The \u00a367m scheme is expected to bring in \u00a341m in private investment into the area, creating almost 6,000 jobs and hundreds of apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>The TIF anticipates \u00a367m of investment by the council, levering a total of \u00a3176m in infrastructure improvements including improved links to the M9 motorway and Grangemouth Flood Prevention Scheme.<\/p>\n<div class=\"mk-custom-module-container\">\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hargreaves Services plc and Fintry Estates Ltd have been appointed as the preferred developers for the Falkirk Gateway project.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[304],"tags":[676,639,669],"stakeholder_rel_tag":[],"contributor_rel_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-52835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-planning-construction-news","7":"tag-construction","8":"tag-procurement","9":"tag-regeneration"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Falkirk Gateway project appoints preferred developer<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hargreaves Services plc and Fintry Estates Ltd have been appointed as the preferred developers for the Falkirk Gateway project\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/falkirk-gateway-developer\/52835\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Falkirk Gateway project appoints preferred developer\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hargreaves Services plc and Fintry Estates Ltd have been appointed as the preferred developers for the Falkirk Gateway project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/planning-construction-news\/falkirk-gateway-developer\/52835\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Planning, Building &amp; 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