Planning permission has been granted for Aggreko's new £20m
manufacturing facility on the Lomondgate development at Dumbarton
which will safeguard 125 jobs and potentially create a further
100.
The decision is further good news for the Lomondgate project in
a week in which a new independent Economic Report from Roger Tym
& Partners revealed that it has boosted the local economy by
£91.7 million since 2002.
Positive impact on the economy
The report also predicts that when the whole development is
complete it will support around 1400 additional local jobs and
that, by 2019, the cumulative impact on the local economy will be
in excess of £450 million.
Aggreko, which is the world's leading temporary power and
temperature control provider, has been given the green light to
build a 160,000 sq ft plant facility and 25,000 sq ft of office
space on a 16 acre site just off the A82 at Lomondgate.
The company is currently based on the Broadmeadow Industrial
Estate, Dumbarton, where most of its fleet of rental generators and
temperature control equipment are designed and assembled. However
the rapid growth of Aggreko's worldwide business over the last five
years now means this facility is too small and production has been
spread around a number of other sites in the West of Scotland.
Good news for Aggreko, Lomondgate and Dumbarton
Aggreko has plans to invest around £20m in the new Lomondgate
plant over a three-year period and hopes to create more than 100
new jobs.
David Hastings, Executive Director of Strathleven Regeneration
Company added: "The new plant is fantastic news for Aggreko, the
Lomondgate development and the Dumbarton area and will help bring
in further investment and create significant numbers of new jobs in
the area.
"It is great to see our plans to transform the site of the
former J&B bottling plant on the A82 at Dumbarton into an
economic and residential hub starting to come to fruition thanks to
our development partners Walker Group, flagship tenants BBC
Scotland, and Aggreko's proposed investment."
About the Lomondgate project
The £100m Lomondgate project, which was launched in 2007, by
Strathleven Regeneration Company, (SRC) a non-profit making
organisation set up by West Dunbartonshire Council and Scottish
Enterprise with the support of Diageo.
SRC formed a partnership with developer Walker Group to help
deliver its plans of a thriving new community on the site providing
300 new homes, a 20 acre business park offering a variety of
different sized buildings, suitable for both small indigenous users
and large corporate bodies, together with roadside services and
other amenities for the business park.
So far more than £14m has been invested by the Walker Group into
the development of Lomondgate, which includes significant local
road improvements, including the construction of the new Lomondgate
roundabout leading into the business park and the other main
elements of the project.
source: Lomondgate