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Talks held over City Deal projects City Deal backing for £44m East Renfrewshire projects
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Some of the first projects to be funded by the City Deal programme for the west of Scotland are to be discussed by councillors. A £44m programme of works in East Renfrewshire has become the first project to be approved from the £1bn Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal.
They include a new water sports park, railway station and a sliproad from the M77. The blueprint will see a new water sports park at Dams to Darnley Country Park, a new railway station in Barrhead and a sliproad from the M77.
The City Deal scheme will see eight council areas around Glasgow receive about £1bn from the UK and Scottish governments. The work was approved by the City Deal Cabinet of eight councils.
The councils also have the power to borrow extra cash. Under the City Deal, Westminster and Holyrood will give £500m each in additional funding.
The Glasgow and Clyde Valley City Deal involved massive investment by both the Scottish and UK governments last year. The eight councils - East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire - will supplement this by borrowing £130m.
Eight councils - Glasgow, East Renfrewshire, Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, North and South Lanarkshire and East and West Dunbartonshire - are involved. The East Renfrewshire Council scheme, approved on Tuesday, will see a Wake Board centre established at Dams to Darnley Country Park by 2017.
Additional grant 'Bold vision'
The City Deal scheme will see Westminster and Holyrood give £500m each in additional grant funding to the eight council areas. A new train station will be built at Barrhead South to serve an area where 1,000 new homes are to be built.
The councils will supplement this by borrowing £130m. And a new sliproad from the M77 will also improve transport links.
Councillors from across all eight areas will meet to discuss some of the schemes. Work will start next month to clear the former Levern Works site in Barrhead before it is marketed for development.
Several of the projects being discussed later are in East Renfrewshire, where £44m is expected to be invested over the next few years, with much of the money coming from the City Deal funding. East Renfrewshire Council leader Jim Fletcher, who sits on the City Deal cabinet, said the approved works represented a "fantastic and bold vision" for the area.
One is a water sports park at the Dams to Darnley Country Park. It would open in 2017 and include a centre offering wakeboarding, the fastest-growing extreme sport in the world. "This major investment will ensure East Renfrewshire continues to be one of the most desirable areas in Scotland to live, work and do business," he said.
New jobs "These proposals will create jobs, regenerate former industrial sites into modern developments, support new housing and hugely improve transport infrastructure.
A new railway station in Barrhead and sliproad from the M77 would serve an area which could become one of East Renfrewshire's fastest growth areas. The council expects 1,000 new homes to be built there. "It is a massive deal for the area and we are thrilled to be part of this initiative."
Another project would transform the Levern Works site in Barrhead. A site formerly occupied by Nestle, where pet food was once made, would be cleared. The site will then be marketed for development for a range of uses that will bring new jobs to Barrhead.
A wide range of other infrastructure projects across the eight council areas will also be discussed.