What is Clyde Gateway
We are a specially created urban regeneration company covering 840 hectares across the east end of Glasgow, including Bridgeton and Dalmarnock and Rutherglen and Shawfield in South Lanarkshire. We have been identified within the National Planning Framework as Scotland's top regeneration priority.
Working in partnership with Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Enterprise - with Scottish Government funding - we were established in December 2007 to drive forward the massive 20-year investment programme.
Our task is to lead the way in achieving unparalleled social, economic and physical change in an area equivalent in size to 1,200 football pitches.
Where is Clyde Gateway?
Clyde Gateway enjoys a fantastic location close to the heart of Glasgow city centre and on the banks of one of the world's most famous rivers.
The historic Glasgow Cross, at one time the very centre of the city, is just one mile away from our boundary.
Glasgow, with a population of just under 600,000, is the commercial capital of Scotland and the UK's largest retail centre after London. It is also one of Europe's top 20 financial centres, and home to many of Scotland's leading businesses.
Part of the town of Rutherglen, which is in fact 500 years older than Glasgow, lies within Clyde Gateway. Rutherglen is Scotland's oldest Royal Burgh with a charter dating back to 1126 when it was an important fishing village on the banks of the river.
The town also was historically a centre of heavy industry, with coal mines and a chemicals factory providing many jobs to local residents. Nowadays it is home to 25,000 people, many of whom commute to and from Glasgow.
Clyde Gateway has excellent public transport infrastructure with three railway stations at Bridgeton, Dalmarnock and Rutherglen, with up to six trains an hour in and out of Glasgow Central station. The area is also well served by buses, with services at least every ten minutes during daytime hours.
The M74 - Scotland's main road south to England - goes through Clyde Gateway, with three major junctions offering excellent access to and from the local communities, while the M8 - the main route between Glasgow and Edinburgh - is situated just 2 miles to the north.
Glasgow International Airport is just 20 minutes drive from Clyde Gateway, while two other international airports at Edinburgh and Prestwick are less than an hour away.
Why is there a need for Clyde Gateway?
In years gone by, the communities which lie within Clyde Gateway were an integral part of the shipbuilding, textiles and heavy engineering industries that made Glasgow and the Clyde famous the world over. But over the past 50 years, almost all of those industries have disappeared, and at the same time, the number of people living in the area has fallen.
Large parts of our communities experienced decades of neglect in comparison to many other areas of Glasgow and the West of Scotland. Much of this was down to the sheer scale of the complex problems caused by the legacy of the old industries, including land conditions, pollution and contamination.
Clyde Gateway beings a shared vision for change and an agreed delivery method from all of the partners that will bring investment from the public and private sectors into infrastructure, offices, workspaces and houses.