SSEN has lodged bold plans for a model new £15 million workplace constructing on the outskirts of Perth, sparking hope for an area jobs enhance.
The main electrical energy distribution and transmission community firm submitted its proposals for the two-storey constructing at Inveralmond Industrial Property to Perth and Kinross Council final week.
Nevertheless, the planning software by SSEN doesn't verify what number of jobs could possibly be created throughout or after the development of the proposed constructing.
The brand new workplace could be positioned on the finish of Ruthvenfield Manner subsequent to Metropolis Plumbing and Lewis Don automobile repairs, if accepted.
Workers will proceed to work at each Inveralmond Home and Grampian Home close by even when the venture will get the inexperienced mild.
Transmission crew staff will to maneuver into the workplace house vacated by OVO Vitality later this 12 months, who took over the retail arm of SSEN in January 2020 and revealed three months in the past it was closing its Perth operations based mostly at Grampian Home, shedding 222 jobs.
SSEN says the enlargement plan is as a result of “important development in electrical energy transmission deliberate throughout the north of Scotland”.
The plans will likely be thought of by Perth and Kinross Council within the subsequent few months.
A spokesperson for SSEN mentioned: “To assist our future operations throughout the north of Scotland and important development plans – for context, we count on to speculate round £4 billion from March 2021 to April 2026 and have already got visibility of an extra £5bn of funding out to the early 2030s – this may see important improve in headcount throughout our foremost websites, together with Perth, Glasgow, Inverness and Aberdeen.
“We’re additionally progressing plans for a brand new operational depot in Aberdeen and new warehouses in Dundee and Inverness, and have already taken over a complete ground vacated by OVO in our Glasgow workplace, in addition to retaining our present space.”
Chief govt of Perthshire Chamber of Commerce, Vicki Unite, mentioned: “Any prospect of jobs in Perth and the encircling areas will likely be warmly welcomed, notably within the aftermath of various blows just lately involving SSE and the devastation that COVID has wreaked.
“We all know what a unbelievable place Perth is as a enterprise hub and on the chamber we've got been urging key decision-makers all through the UK to recognise that too for a while now.
“Hopefully this enhance will occur and it may well act as a fillip for our native financial system.”