Ref NoLDC/CD/2/3/4
TitleKirkton Campus
Date1973-1996
TermIndustrial management
High technology
Industrial estates
AdminHistoryKirkton Campus was Scotland's first high technology park, designed for research and development orientated business. Prior to being developed as a technology park, Corporation plans for the site included trying to tempt Heriot Watt University and the World Health Organisation to locate in the area, both attempts failed. Development of plans for site began in 1969 and the Scottish Office gave approval in 1972. The first occupants of Kirkton Campus, Arbrook Division of Ethicon Ltd, part of Johnson and Johnson, loacted to the site in 1975. The Corporation was stringent in its assigment of leases on Campus to only high technology firms. By the 1980s Kirkton Campus had firms representing microelectronics, pharmaceuticals, medical instrumentation and the computer software industries and was key in forming what was called Silicon Glen.
AccessStatusOpen
Extent89 files
ScopeandContentIndustrial Property Files for Kirkton Campus, 1973-1994.

Industrial property files contain any material created and aggregated by the Corporation when managing that property. The files detail the Corporation's management of utilities; correspondence with tenants regarding bills, negotiation of leases and rent reviews; documentation regarding any purchasing of property; memos and other documentation regarding site investigations of condition of property on the tenant's termination of occupation, investigation and action on any repair or minor alterations needed on site; and details of any major modification work undertaken at the unit, including maps and plans. Some files contain polaroid pictures of the condition of the property on the tenant's termination of occupation
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