Heavy-duty generator rental firm Aggreko has been granted planning permission for a new £20m manufacturing facility on the Lomondgate development at Dumbarton, Scotland.
Aggreko has been given the green light to build a 160,000 sq ft plant facility and 25,000 sq ft of office and ancillary accommodation on a 16-acre site just off the A82 at Lomondgate.
It is currently based on the Broadmeadow Industrial Estate, Dumbarton.
Strathleven Regeneration Company, (SRC) a non-profit making organisation set up by Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire and West Dunbartonshire council in conjunction with Diageo, launched the £100m Lomondgate in 2007.
David Hastings, executive director of Strathleven Regeneration Company, said: “The new plant is fantastic news for Aggreko, Dumbarton and the Lomondgate development and will help bring in new investment and create significant numbers of new jobs in the area.
“It is great to see our plans to transform 120 acres of vacant land on the north-western edge of Dumbarton into a thriving business, leisure and residential hub starting to come to fruition thanks to our flagship tenants the BBC, Aggreko’s and our partners, Walker Group.”
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 and other facilities including leisure tourism and convenience retail.
The decision follows a new independent economic report from Roger Tym & Partners which revealed that Lomondgate has boosted the local economy by £91.7m since 2002.
The report also predicts that when the whole development is complete it will support around 1,400 additional local jobs and that, by 2019, the cumulative impact on the local economy will be in excess of £450m.
