{"id":334522,"date":"2025-08-11T01:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334522\/"},"modified":"2025-08-11T01:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T01:19:12","slug":"pollok-stables-refurb-takes-next-step-with-preferred-contractor-named","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/334522\/","title":{"rendered":"Pollok Stables refurb takes next step with preferred contractor named"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  The \u00a39 million contract is being funded by the UK government and will begin in October. Morrison Construction\u2019s tender was found to be the best value of the four tenders submitted and evaluated through a 60% quality \/ 40% cost weighting.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Work has already been completed to stabilise the fabric of the buildings which had been on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.glasgowtimes.co.uk\/topics\/glasgow-city-council\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Glasgow City Council<\/a>\u2019s Buildings at Risk register.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <strong>Read More<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Additional repair works on roofs, lighting, guttering and piping has also enabled the design of the new refurbishment contract.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   alt=\"The stables are being renovated\" style=\"width: 100%;\"\/>The stables are being renovated Councillor Ruairi Kelly, Convener for Built <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heraldscotland.com\/topics\/heritage\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Heritage<\/a> and Development at Glasgow City Council, said: \u201cThe works under this new contract will complete the refurbishment of these A listed historic buildings into 21st\u00a0century uses, with these complementing the fantastic built heritage attractions &#8211; the Burrell Collection and Pollok House &#8211; found within Pollok Country Park.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cWe have invested a huge amount &#8211; and attracted significant investment &#8211; in the council\u2019s-built heritage in recent years in recognition of the great economic, social and environmental benefits it brings to Glasgow.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The \u00a39 million contract is being funded by the UK government and will begin in October. Morrison Construction\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7826],"tags":[748,918,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-334522","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-glasgow","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-glasgow","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-scotland","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115007505545616445","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}