South Lanarkshire Council

South Lanarkshire Council demonstrates strong leadership, has a good approach to the way it manages its finances and has delivered improvements to many services, the local authority watchdog has said. The Accounts Commission has now called on the council to ensure that service redesign is driven by

Lucky pupils at East Milton Primary School in South Lanarkshire are set to benefit from a donation made by construction and manufacturing company CCG (Scotland) Ltd. The building firm is working with South Lanarkshire Council to deliver 30 affordable homes on a site adjacent to the primary school.

Around 250 people have responded to a South Lanarkshire Council consultation exercise on the Local Development Plan (SLLDP) 2. Together they raised 502 ‘valid’ points of representation including objections to, and support for, a broad range of the draft policies and proposals. These have

South Lanarkshire Council is to invest more than £62 million in the next financial year on new council homes and improving existing council housing. As part of the council’s commitment to build 1,000 new homes, more than £38m will be spent delivering a total of 193 new homes during

Helping people from becoming homeless and limiting the time spent in temporary accommodation is the focus of a new council plan. The Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan 2019-24 has five priority objectives and an overall vision that “homelessness in South Lanarkshire is significantly reduced

South Lanarkshire Council has announced that 300 new homes will be built in Cambuslang as part of a £42 million housing-led regeneration project. The development in East Whitlawburn will transform the area and will see 200 new social rented homes and 100 private homes for sale with work expected to

Over the next couple of months South Lanarkshire Council tenants will be able to give their views on the level of rent proposed for 2019/20. A series of local meetings are scheduled to take place during November. The focus of these meetings will consider the proposed rent increase for 2019-20 as wel

Ewen Kerr, Andrew Christie and Sharon Smith of Who Cares? Scotland with South Lanarkshire Council’s Matthew McNulty, Annette Finnan and Alison Akremi South Lanarkshire Council’s housing and technical resources team recently threw its support behind Scottish Housing Day 2018.

East Kilbride The proposed East Kilbride Community Growth Area (CGA) has received a funding boost from the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal.

lanarksConstruction companies tendering for contracts with South Lanarkshire Council will now need to meet new standards, conditions and expectations after the approval of a Construction Charter. Agreed following a request by Unite the Union, the charter will build on the existing Fair Working Pract

More than 1,800 new homes will be built in Hamilton as part of a huge investment in the town from the £1.13 billion Glasgow City Region City Deal. Woodhead Primary School will also be extended as part of the Hamilton Community Growth Area (CGA) at a cost of £4.1m.

A host of new flood barriers are to be installed across South Lanarkshire to protect property and infrastructure in the region. The mobile 'Floodstop' barrier is a flood defence system which can be assembled to any length or orientation by connecting one metre long modular units using weighted keys.

Communities in South Lanarkshire have been given the chance to comment on the council's vision for the continued growth and regeneration of the area. Following committee approval in May, the proposed plan is the latest stage in the replacement of the existing South Lanarkshire Local Development Plan

Showing off the award won by South Lanarkshire’s Budget Scrutiny Group are (front, left to right) Mary Ann Patrick, Jean Ramage, Jean Gilfillan and Jim McGeachie, with (rear, left to right) Ross McKie (South Lanarkshire Council), Adam Patrick, Aileen Muir (South Lanarkshire Council) and Stephen Co

The cabinet held its meeting in Clyde Gateway yesterday The Clyde Gateway regeneration programme has been awarded a £5.5 million cash injection from the Scottish Government.