Gracemount Civic Square
Location: Edinburgh
Summary: External alteration and refurbishment works to improve a civic square
Description of Works: External alteration and refurbishment works to improve the building fabric and hard and soft landscaping within an existing civic square. The project was delivered adjacent to operational businesses.
Works included:
- Downtakings including demolition of brick walls
- Clearing site vegetation and breaking out existing car park and paving
- Drainage works
- New brick wall and render to a curved wall in preparation for an art mural to be installed by local artists
- Refurbishment works to shop fronts
- Render works
- New street furniture including bins and bollards
- Installation of planters
- New streetlights
- Hard landscaping including paving, tarmacadam, resin bound gravel, steps and car parking areas
- Soft landscaping including trees, shrubs and planting
Community Benefits:
- Advertised job opportunities via local agencies
- Area tidy-up campaign
- Donation to local school breakfast club
- Donation to local foodbank
- Donated slabs to local residents
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