Scottish Steelworks - Masterplan : Wilson Bowden with RMJM
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Ravenscraig Start – Dec 07 News Update:
Work starts on five-storey £44m Motherwell College campus at Ravenscraig - the first major development on the former steelworks site
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New £29m sports facility at former Ravenscraig steelworks by HOK Sport received £7m funding from sportscotland:
Ravenscraig Regional Sports Facility
The project by North Lanarkshire Council and Ravenscraig Ltd's features a full-size indoor synthetic football pitch, six-lane athletics track, nine-court indoor sports hall, full-size floodlit outdoor synthetic grass pitch, six floodlit synthetic five-a-side outdoor pitches, gym, two dance studios & indoor soft play area.
Area: approx. 1100 acres
Houses proposed: approx. 3500
Start on site: due early 2006
Ravenscraig : Phase 1 Housing - Dec 2006
Ravenscraig: Progress - Summer 2005
The Court of Session has agreed on the decision to give town centre status
to Ravenscraig be upheld, allowing the regeneration of the former steel
plant site.
The Ravenscraig vision has been delayed for more than a year as a challenge from Standard Life Assurance Company and Land Securities Group went before the Court of Session. The unanimous verdict in favour of the Ravenscraig Regeneration plans comes nearly 13 years after the steel plant closure.
The masterplan is coordinated by the Ravenscraig Partnership and includes housing, schools, shopping, leisure and community facilities.
Wilson Bowden Developments can now progress the first phase of development (north of site) which will include building over 600-800 houses and providing the necessary water, power, and drainage required for the whole site. A £20m Sports Scotland facility is also due to be built.
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Redevelopment Architects:
Llewelyn Davies originally worked on the Ravenscraig Master Plan for the regeneration of this former steelworks site involving mixed-use sustainable regeneration. Llewelyn Davies also produced a Master Plan for Waterfront Edinburgh
RMJM have various projects in Glasgow including Homes for the Future and Glasgow Harbour
Wilson Bowden Developments with partners Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire and Corus (formerly British Steel) are developers for this 1100-acre site adjacent to Motherwell and Wishaw in central-west Scotland. Wilson Bowden headquarters are in Leicestershire; their housebuilding division, David Wilson Homes, is due to build at least half of the houses.
Wilson Bowden are reportedly due to contribute millions to improve Motherwell town centre, improve local schools, to pay for half of the Sports Scotland facility and to allocate funds and land for two new primary schools within the masterplan.
Ravenscraig reputedly contains 5% of the total brownfield land in Scotland.
Local Housing by RMJM (Glasgow): Homes for the Future
Also by RMJM: Palm Island Dubai
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Ravenscraig Masterplan Building - page: adrian welch / isabelle lomholt
Ravenscraig - Website: www.ravenscraig.co.uk