admin The industrial giant Liberty which rescued the last two steel plants in Scotland has revealed its plans to build a £15 million hotel at its Clydebridge site in South Lanarkshire, while declaring its ambition to develop similar ventures at other locations in the UK.
The property development arm of Sanjeev Gupta’s GFG Alliance is working up a detailed planning application for a 100-bedroom hotel at the location to the east of Glasgow, after the local authority gave change of use consent for the land from its industrial status.
It will be the first hotel to be developed by GFG’s JAHAMA business. And the division’s chief executive, Dilip Awtani, revealed it could follow the template at other sites owned by the company, including the estate where its aluminium smelting facility is based in Fort William.
JAHAMA aims to submit a detailed planning application for its proposed Clydebridge Hotel at some stage in the second quarter. It proposes to include a large fitness club and restaurant in the development, with the intention of encouraging local people to use the facilities, as well as hotel residents.
JAHAMA, which is also considering separate plans to develop office space and storage units on the land it owns around Clydebridge, expects to create around 50 jobs with the hotel development. It reckons it will support even more jobs indirectly Details of the Clydebridge project emerged after a report published by Liberty in December said the two Scottish steel plants are on course to produce 75,000 tonnes of steel plate this year. Employee numbers at the plant have dipped to 145 from 187. The report states that Liberty, which is run by Scot Douglas Dawson, has plans to move into wind tower manufacturing at Clydebridge. Liberty said it has invested £500m in its Scottish assets since 2016.
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