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News Download our pdf newsletter: December 2006 - Click here March 2007 - Click here July 2007 - Click here (If you do not have Acrobat Reader installed click here to download for free) Metro `leisure station' agreed Aug 19 2006 By Daniel Thomson, The Journal The £20m development will see the Haymarket station replaced by a four-storey steel and glass building, which will include a new Metro platform and concourse, bar, restaurant, shops, travel centre and office space. Metro operators Nexus last night said the scheme would offer passengers a vastly improved travel experience without costing taxpayers a penny. Work on the new station could create up to 300 jobs and will begin in March, subject to a final agreement between Nexus and Newcastle's Closegate Developments, who will be paying for the development. Yesterday, members of Newcastle City Council's development control committee unanimously approved the plans. Director general of Nexus Bernard Garner [correct] said: "I'm delighted this development has been given the go-ahead. It's great news for passengers and great news for Newcastle city centre. "Haymarket station showed the shape of things to come when it opened on the first day of Metro in 1980. It will again be a taste of the future as we raise support for our £500m Metro modernisation programme for the decades ahead." The scheme will include the demolition of the current station and work is expected to take about 18 months to complete. Both of the station's platforms will be refurbished and a third escalator will be put in place. A Nexus spokesman said there would be no requirement to completely close the station and inconvenience to passengers would be kept to a minimum. Haymarket is the second busiest Metro station after the Monument and has 60,000 passenger journeys each week. The station, which opened in August 1980, was the first to open when the Metro started running trains for passengers between Haymarket and Tynemouth. Summers Inman’s Edinburgh Office Summers Inman’s Edinburgh office is a market leader in the provision of services in the Social Housing Sector in Scotland, and have received regular commissions from all the major Registered Social Landlords’s over the last 20 years. We are currently involved in the following substantial Urban and Rural Regeneration projects: 1.MOREDUN / HYVOTS, EDINBURGH This Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveying commission, which comprises 762Nr New Build and refurbished units in the Moredun Park and Hyvots Estates area of Edinburgh, is being undertaken for our long standing client Dunedin Canmore Housing Association Ltd. 2.ABBEYVIEW, DUNFERMLINE We are currently working on the early stages of three separate projects, delivering a total of 85 Houses/Flats, which form the early part of the Abbeyview regeneration project, for Fife Special Housing Association Ltd. 3.EAST LOTHIAN We are now entering the third phase of a rural regeneration project for the Homes for Life Housing Partnership. We have now completed Phases 1 and 2, which comprised 9 projects and 132 units, and the next phase involves another 160 units. 4.OXGANGS, EDINBURGH Construction on the first phase of this three-phase project is halfway completed. The £20m project for Dunedin Canmore Housing Association Ltd will eventually deliver around 240 units and will replace some of the major tower blocks, which have loomed large on the Edinburgh skyline. 5.CRAIGMILLAR CASTLE, EDINBURGH We are currently on site with the fifth and last phase of this regeneration project for the Kintry Housing Partnership and the Link Group. The project, which has had an enormous impact on the area has delivered some 413 new build properties, 130 refurbished properties and a Sheltered Housing complex. 6.MIDLOTHIAN We have commenced work on a large scale rural housing project for Midlothian Council.Our first two allocated projects at Newtongrange and Gorebridge comprise circa 110 new build properties. We are part of a multi disciplinary framework team operating on this project, which is one of the largest Council Housing projects in Scotland. 7.OATLANDS, GLASGOW We are providing Employer’s Agent and Quantity Surveying services to Link Housing Association and Glasgow Housing Association on the regeneration of the Oatlands district in Glasgow. The project comprises of 172 new build units and construction work is being carried out by Bett Ltd. Services to Argent Energy Summers-Inman’s Glasgow office provided Project Management, Quantity Surveying and Planning Supervisor Services to Argent Energy on the UK’s first large-scale bio-diesel plant near Motherwell. The project, which was completed in February 2005, will produce nearly 50 million litres of bio-diesel per year. This pioneering project produces an environmentally friendly form of road fuel from waste products such as tallow and used cooking oil. Redevelopment of David Russell Hall, Wester Langlands, St Andrews Summers Inman’s client, the University of St Andrews has just taken possession of Phase 1C of the Redevelopment of David Russell Hall, Wester Langlands, St Andrews which provides a further 198 bed spaces in three four-storey blocks. This brings the total number of bed spaces on the David Russell Hall site to 941 together with a Central Facilities Building, which provides dining and entertainment facilities. Summers Inman were appointed in May 2001 to provide Quantity Surveying and Cost Management services on all three Phases. The first phase, Phase 1A, was procured using a two stage Design and Build procurement route which allowed the design to be finalised in conjunction with the main contractor, Morrison Construction Ltd. This was completed in July 2003. The subsequent phases were completed in April 2005 and September 2006 respectively. Summers Inman are continuing their involvement with the University of St Andrews with a further two Projects at the Department of Physics on the North Haugh Campus, St Andrews. |
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