Plans for the creation of a high-quality new community on the site of the former Clydesdale Steelworks at Bellshill to the east of Glasgow are set to move forward after the completion of the sale of the site.
Developer Banks Property and homebuilder Miller Homes submitted a joint planning application to North Lanarkshire Council last year for the 33-hectare brownfield site in New Stevenston, which was allocated for residential development in the Council’s Local Development Plan.
The development proposal included a wide variety of property types, as well as substantial areas of landscaped public open space, a number of formal play areas, a multi-use games area and extensive planting.
The members of the Council’s planning committee voted unanimously in favour of the project last month, with 432 new homes to be built on the site – and now, the sale of the site by Banks Property to Miller Homes has been completed.
A full site remediation will be carried out, with new junctions with Clydesdale Street and Coronation Road being created to provide access to the new development, while a contribution of around £900,000 will be made in support of local education provision.
James Seabury, principal development planner at Banks Property, says: “This brownfield site presents a fantastic opportunity to create a modern, sustainable residential community, a fact which was clearly recognised by the members of North Lanarkshire Council’s planning committee, and we had a wide range of positive feedback about our proposals during the consultations that we held.
“This vibrant new community will help increase the local supply of high-quality homes and will offer a range of different house types, so enabling more people to stay in or move to the area, and it will also deliver a wide range of other environmental, economic, employment and investment benefits.”