Clark Contracts wins residential conversion of Edinburgh’s Westwood House

Fife-based housing charity LAR Housing Trust has appointed Clark Contracts for a multi million pound project in Edinburgh.The firm is to convert Westwood House, an empty office building on the city’s Gorgie Road, into 47 mid market rental flats.LAR purchased Westwood House, which had been lying empty for five years, in December 2017 for an undisclosed sum and secured planning permission for the organisation’s first commercial to residential conversion project earlier this year.The completed development will consist of 18 one bed, 27 two bed and two three bed flats with work scheduled to get underway this month.Work at the site is scheduled to finish in summer 2019.LAR is also purchasing 40 homes in a second former office block in the area, Chesser House, with tenants also expected to move into that development by summer 2019.