{"id":9498,"date":"2025-12-05T09:46:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=9498"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:46:59","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:46:59","slug":"ravenscraig-200-acre-site-remediation-gets-go-ahead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/ravenscraig-200-acre-site-remediation-gets-go-ahead\/","title":{"rendered":"Ravenscraig 200-acre site remediation gets go-ahead"},"content":{"rendered":"

A huge clean-up of the derelict Ravenscraig steelworks site will kick off early next year after planners gave the green light for one of Scotland\u2019s biggest ever land-remediation jobs.<\/p>\n

North Lanarkshire Council has approved extraction and remediation works across 200 acres of the 1,200-acre plot \u2013 unlocking the next phase of brownfield regeneration scheme.<\/p>\n

The programme involves ripping out deep steelworks foundations and shifting more than 2.7m cubic metres of material to prepare land for a new mixed-use community.<\/p>\n

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The cleared area alone could eventually support up to 2,000 homes alongside commercial, leisure and green-space development.<\/p>\n

The approved zone includes Meadowhead next to new urban park The Craig, land around the Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility, and plots north of New College Lanarkshire\u2019s Motherwell Campus.<\/p>\n

Ravenscraig director Russell Wilkie said the approval \u201cturns once-unusable industrial land into a viable location for residential development that will breathe new life into the area.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Council leader Jim Logue said the authority\u2019s new road and active-travel links from Motherwell to Ravenscraig were \u201cessential to open up the site to enable further investment.\u201d<\/p>\n

The JV behind the scheme \u2013 Barratt Developments, Tata Steel and Scottish Enterprise \u2013 has already invested \u00a3250m in long-term plans to transform the former steelworks, which closed in 1992.<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/vntc1V9<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A huge clean-up of the derelict Ravenscraig steelworks site will kick off early next year after planners gave the green light for one of Scotland\u2019s biggest ever land-remediation jobs. North Lanarkshire Council has approved extraction and remediation works across 200 acres of the 1,200-acre plot \u2013 unlocking the next phase of brownfield regeneration scheme. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":154,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-9498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9498"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9499,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9498\/revisions\/9499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}