Today we donned our hi-viz vests, popped on a hard hat and met Ross and Lynsey from McTaggart Construction at the building site to hear more about the new housing development.
There are to be 56 houses built on the land and, at the moment, excavators, diggers and bulldozers are getting the land ready so the foundations can be put in place. This’ enabling phase’ is expected to take 6-12 weeks. The field they are building in is known as a ‘green field’ which means it hasn’t had anything built on it before ( a ‘brown field’ has had buildings which have been cleared to make way for new ones to be built). Ross told us that there are just under 1000 different jobs involved in the construction industry and lots of people need to work together to get from planning to the finished result!
As a treat, Ross and Lynsey had a bag of sweeties for each child – thank you!
We are looking forward to working with McTaggart Construction to find out more abut the building industry and watch the process of this housing development.
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