South Lanarkshire

The construction of a new £21 million bypass in South Lanarkshire has been given the green light. South Lanarkshire Council planning committee yesterday approved the Cathkin Relief Road after it was recommended for approval.

Gordon Matheson Funding has been approved for over £900 million of infrastructure projects to be carried out under the Glasgow and the Clyde Valley City Deal package to boost the west of Scotland economy.

Biggar Primary School The completion of a sustainably-built primary school in South Lanarkshire has been marked with an official ‘handover’ ceremony.

A centre dedicated to Scotland's most famous explorer is to be transformed into a leading heritage attraction thanks to lottery funding. The multi-million pound revamp of the David Livingstone Centre in Blantyre was awarded a £334,000 grant which will the trust which runs the centre to take forward

The Portakabin Group is marking the first decade in operation of the UK’s first school to be fully built off-site. Our Lady of Lourdes in East Kilbride, which opened its doors back in 2004, broke new ground in the education sector as it was constructed using a Yorkon off-site building solution, an

The multi-million pound redevelopment of East Kilbride Ice Rink took a step forward this week with councillors approving a further £300,000 contribution to the funding package. A report went before South Lanarkshire Council’s executive committee outlining a new timescale for the project, which is

Grace McFarlane (4 years) and Gregor Boyd (5 years) looking at the plans for the new school campus A £12 million project to bring three East Kilbride establishments together under one roof on a purpose-built campus began in earnest yesterday.

Hub South West and Graham Construction hand over the new Hunter Health Centre to NHS Lanarkshire. From left: Adam Finch, independent tester, AA Projects; Darren Muir, funder, technical advisor, MMAG; Joe Dowds, capital services manager, NHS Lanarkshire; Gordon Richardson, contracts manager, Graham F

Work is underway to create a new primary school in Biggar as part of South Lanarkshire Council’s £800 million primary school modernisation programme. The new Libberton Primary School will be built on the same site as the current school and will feature state of the art teaching facilities for the

A Scottish Government Reporter has dismissed an appeal against the refusal of planning permission in principle for a £500 million 3200-home development in South Lanarkshire. The Reporter’s findings follow a two-day public hearing in January into the plans for the project which had been scheduled

The UK’s Green Investment Bank (GIB) has announced plans to co-fund an £111 million recycling and waste-to-energy plant in South Lanarkshire. The government-funded bank said it had invested more than £28m in the new facility at Forth by Lanark, due to open in 2017.

A £12 million proposal for the rebuild of Halfmerke Primary, its community nursery and also West Mains School, has been given the go-ahead by South Lanarkshire Council.

Abington Primary School Plans to construct a new £3.6 million replacement for Abington Primary School and nursery have been given the go-ahead by South Lanarkshire Council.

Taylor Wimpey West Scotland has secured detailed planning consent from South Lanarkshire Council to deliver 612 homes as part of the master plan vision for Newton Farm in Cambuslang.

Glassford Primary School is to get a £2.8 million replacement after South Lanarkshire Council gave the plans the green light. The proposal, the latest under the council’s £800m Primary Schools Modernisation Programme, was rubber-stamped by councillors at this month’s Planning committee.