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City Deal backing for £44m East Renfrewshire projects | |
(about 17 hours later) | |
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. | |
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 work was approved by the City Deal Cabinet of eight councils. | |
Under the City Deal, Westminster and Holyrood will give £500m each in additional funding. | |
The eight councils - East Renfrewshire, Glasgow, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire, North Lanarkshire and South Lanarkshire - will supplement this by borrowing £130m. | |
The East Renfrewshire Council scheme, approved on Tuesday, will see a Wake Board centre established at Dams to Darnley Country Park by 2017. | |
'Bold vision' | |
A new train station will be built at Barrhead South to serve an area where 1,000 new homes are to be built. | |
And a new sliproad from the M77 will also improve transport links. | |
Work will start next month to clear the former Levern Works site in Barrhead before it is marketed for development. | |
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. | |
"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. | |
"These proposals will create jobs, regenerate former industrial sites into modern developments, support new housing and hugely improve transport infrastructure. | |
"It is a massive deal for the area and we are thrilled to be part of this initiative." | |
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