One of the country’s largest energy providers has been given the go-ahead to build a new depot in Dundee.
Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) says it will start work on the two-storey building in the next couple of weeks.
The energy giant was granted conditional approval by Dundee City Council to open the new premises in the Dryburgh Industrial Estate on the site formely occupied by the now defunct Torith Group.
It intends to create a single site that can accommodate SSE Contracting staff currently based in Carolina Port and workers at Scotland Gas Networks in Lochee.
An SSE spokesman said: ”We hope to have the new site, which will hold around 130 employees, opened in July. Bringing together two sites that includes Scotland Gas Networks, which SSE owns a 50% stake in, will create operational savings and is a model we have used before.”
In their decision statement the city council said the application had been granted because the proposals would not adversely affect neighbouring residential properties.
However as part of the conditions set out by the local authority Scottish and Southern Energy must operate within set noise levels in the interests of safeguarding residential amenity.
Scottish and Southern Energy has one of its largest customer service centres based in Perth and supplies electricity and gas to more than 10 million homes in the UK and Ireland.
Its new site has lain vacant since the collapse of the construction and engineering firm Torith. The firm was one of the most well known employers in the area but fell into administration in 2009.