Work starts on new homes at demolished towers site
Head over to our new Lanarkshire Live Facebook page to make sure you're up to date with the top stories in the regionThe new homes range from one to four bedrooms and will be a mixture of semi-detached, terraced, cottage flats and bungalows, with the site including 11 new wheelchair-standard properties.Construction firm CCG are using their new “net zero home” building standard for the 19 “pilot” properties, meaning they will use gas-free energy provision and the latest building techniques “to reduce carbon emissions from lighting, heating, pumps and fans to less than or equal to zero” – generating “significant savings on annual heating costs” for future tenants.Managing director David Wylie said: “With the de-carbonisation of new-build