The Glenboig Village project has the potential to provide a huge economic boost for North Lanarkshire, representing a £200 million investment, whilst facilitating an estimated 700 jobs – with firms in the local area encouraged to join the supply chain.
Included in the masterplan submission are details of a community hub that will provide for local retail, healthcare and convenience shopping facilities. There will also be an extension to the adjacent Gartcosh Nature Reserve and the long awaited link road to Gartcosh Business Park, the local railway station and the M73.
Innovative ‘newt underpasses’ designed to encourage the local population of Great Crested Newts to move between habitats helped to secure planning for the link road and will encourage the newt species – one of the largest in the UK – to flourish in the newly expanded nature reserve.