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Caulders Garden Centre Kirkintilloch, Glasgow, is set to build a new 300-seat restaurant following a £1.5m investment.
The new restaurant will be more than double the size of the existing restaurant overlooking Campsie Hills and will create at least an additional 30 jobs for the area.
As part of Caulders sustainability journey, the roof will host more than 175 solar panels that will have a 92% efficiency rating – saving 12.5 tonnes of CO2 a year.
Additionally, Caulders, Kirkintilloch will be able to harvest all their rainwater and heat and cool the building with air source heat pumps.
The project is expected to be completed by Spring 2025.
Caulders is made up of nine Garden Centres in Scotland – Milngavie, Kirkintilloch, Newton Mearns, Erskine, Cupar, Cumbernauld, Kinross, Loch Lomond and Hetland (Dumfries and Galloway). It is owned and operated by Colin and Mandy Barrie since its inception in 1999 – 25 years ago.
Colin Barrie, managing director of Caulders, said: “Our customers are at the centre of everything we do and it is important we keep improving our offering to them – the new building will also house a new baking kitchen that will provide in-house cakes and traybakes for all our Restaurants. It is an exciting time for Caulders.”
