Mud flies as council rows with housebuilders over 'wrong kind of soil'

By Will Ing2018-08-30T06:00:00

Scottish authority says soil Taylor Wimpey delivered for primary school job was ‘unsuitable’

A local authority in Scotland wants the country’s second biggest housebuilder to stump up the money it says it has shelled out replacing the wrong kind of soil used to build a primary school.

Taylor Wimpey and Cala Homes, which is headquartered in Edinburgh, were asked to provide topsoil to the £15m school being built by Bam as part of a deal which saw the pair cleared to build more than 100 homes at site near Giffnock, five miles south of Glasgow, in return for a parcel of land to build the school.

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