What will Clyde Gateway Do?
The aims and targets for Clyde Gateway over a 20-year period are ambitious:
- To deliver £1.5 billion of private sector investment
- To build 400,000 sq.m. of business space
- To create more than 20,000 jobs – with many of them targeted at local residents
- To construct 10,000 new houses – from starter flats to family homes
- To increase the population in East Glasgow/South Lanarkshire by 20,000 people.
Clyde Gateway will be at the heart of a physical, social and economic regeneration programme that will change the image, perception and fortunes of its communities.
It is about giving local residents access to more jobs, improved educational attainment, better health services and a safer environment.
It is about working alongside existing agencies and people in the local communities to ensure that all the social, economic and physical regeneration activities are co-ordinated to the best effect.
It is about reducing the amount of derelict and contaminated land, along with delivering substantial investment into physical infrastructure improvements, such as the water and sewerage systems which have, for many years, limited development in Bridgeton, Dalmarnock, Parkhead, Rutherglen and Shawfield.
It is about helping to ensure that housing choices in our communities increases, including affordable family housing.
The vision for Clyde Gateway, as set out in our Business Plan, is:-
"of a dynamic and sought after city location, with a strong community, which will attract major investment and establish itself as one of the foremost place in the West of Scotland to live and work, supporting Glasgow’s ambition to be a world class city-region"
