GCV Green Network
Connecting Our Quality Spaces

Ravenscraig is a large former industrial site situated in North Lanarkshire, between Motherwell and Wishaw.

The site is Scotland’s largest regeneration project. The aim is to create 3,500 new homes, an industrial campus, a business quarter and a new town centre with retail and leisure provision.

A high quality Green Network will provide an attractive landscape for development, habitat corridors for wildlife and green link opportunities for residents and visitors within and beyond the site.

The Glasgow and Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership aims to make a significant contribution toward the Ravenscraig Green Network through the area’s Green Network Strategy.

The Strategy provides recommendations which offer an opportunity to develop best practice in sustainable urban development at a nationally significant site through:

• A network of walking and cycling routes for local travel with access to a number of major leisure and environmental sites
• A park environment in the new town providing a focal point with access to and between local communities
• Development of a water feature to protect and enhance conservation interests
• Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems (SUDS) to provide landscape, biodiversity and amenity benefits
• A Community Nature Park providing a significant recreation source
• Exploration of innovative approaches to sustainable long-term management of greenspace

For a summary on the issues and our recommendations in Ravenscraig, read our summary Prospectus document, click here.

For more detailed information download related Ravenscraig documents from the right hand column.