Finishing touches are being put to a string of luxury apartments in a B-listed Arbroath bank building.
Dundee property and investment firm Carling Property Group has carried out the makeover of the upper two floors of the Bank of Scotland building on Brothock Bridge, which dates back to the 19th Century.
Bank of Scotland will continue to occupy the ground floor and the Carling conversion has retained all of the original features as well as adding upscale insulation, noise protection and heating systems.
The firm has also just submitted plans to Angus Council for the transformation of Inverkeilor’s former Chance Inn into seven affordable housing rentals.
The Brothock Bridge and New Chance Inn Court developments mark a period of strong growth for the company, owned by husband and wife Graeme and Leanne Carling.
Plans for Carling Property Group to convert the former St Stephen’s RC Primary School in Blairgowrie into affordable housing recently fell through after CPG’s application for £400,000 in funding from the Scottish Government’s Empty Homes Loan Fund was unsuccessful and the company has now put the property back on the market.
Mr Carling said: “We still see a shortage of quality affordable housing in Scotland, but as a privately-funded company we require some financial support to help us to do that.
“We’re disappointed we had to abandon the St Stephen’s project because that means overall we are unable to supply 25 affordable housing units for the people of Perthshire, Dundee and Angus.
“We had hoped to turn the Brothock Bridge flats into affordable rental properties too, but we can only do that if financial assistance is available through the Government, which in turn helps subsidise long-term discounted rent. So instead we will be putting them up for sale.”