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Ikea’s Boklok housing wins huge victory in Scotland

Ikea’s Boklok Home

Last year, Ikea built forty of their Boklok homes in Glasgow. Today, a £200 deal has been announced to build 1,200 of the homes in Glasgow over the next five years.

A £200Million housing project using Ikea flatpack homes is to be launched in Glasgow today.

The scheme will see 1200 family houses built over the next five years in Drumchapel.

As exclusively revealed by the Evening Times last year, around 40 of the properties will be Ikea flatpacks, the first time the Swedish company’s prefabricated homes will have been used in Scotland.
Smart-living “Boklok” homes are a big hit in Scandinavia with their open-plan designs, high ceilings and large windows.

Today all the partners involved in the project were signing off the contracts in a ceremony at Glasgow City Chambers.

Summerhill councillor Paul Carey said: “Today we are giving the green light to the largest single regeneration scheme in Scotland.”

Read [Scottish EveningTimes]

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2 Comments »

  kimberley wrote @ May 7th, 2007 at 6:17 am

could you please send me any information that is available with regards to the homes to be built in drumchapel, we have lived there for 25 years and are very interested in the project.

thanks

  Lesley Gibbs wrote @ October 5th, 2007 at 4:26 am

Any plans for more in Scotland??

I’m a 1st time buyer in Edinburgh on average salaray. Solicitors are punting flats at ‘offers over £95k - ideal first time purchase’. Who can afford £95k as a single person on an average or slightly less than national average salary?

There are schemes to help people like me, The Homestake Scheme is a great example - unfortunately I earn £300 p.a. too much………….

There’s a huge market out there - developers aren’t building for people like me and there’s a lot of ‘Me’s’ out there.

Thanks.

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