Bellshill will build on its community strengths and its new town hub to support its appeal as a place to live and work. A ‘Green Bridge’ (A775), better rail access and connections to path and cycle networks connect both the new hub and the key employment sites of Bellshill Industrial Park, Strathclyde Business Park, Eurocentral and Mossend.

The Vision will be built around a mixed-use model of sustainable living based on place and the ease of access to employment, housing, services and key transport connections.

Bellshill can build on the quality of place in a manner that supports the community, builds community wealth and delivers a compact and vibrant mixed-use centre.

Serviced with rail, bus and cycle links, the town can deliver all the facilities that support modern living and working.

Live, learn, work and play

Bellshill re-purposed as a mixed-use centre is a great place to live and work offering a diverse range of employment opportunities all within the immediate locality and with ready accessibility.

Equally good connections and good public transport links Glasgow, Motherwell, Livingston, Edinburgh and allows Bellshill to be an appealing commuter town offering accessible living with good employment connections.

Strong community built around a compact centre

The Bellshill town hub incorporating education infrastructure, health centre and leisure facilities makes Bellshill an enviable place to live. Green links connect regional facilities and adjacent centres creating an attractive active travel network that connects jobs, neighbourhoods, leisure facilities and support the whole community.

Compact centre supporting low carbon lifestyles

Bellshill’s compactness, its connections and the proximity of the centre to the town hub and new employment sites creates a sustainable place that can adapt and support low-carbon living, strengthen community life and support health and wellbeing.

Bellshill can build on the opportunities to shape healthier, wealthier and more inclusive communities through good homes and quality local employment.

Bellshill’s opportunities

Towns and town centres are facing a range of opportunities and challenges as community needs and the way we use our centres change.

Bellshill needs to continue to adapt and strengthen its role as a liveable mixed-use centre that can offer good homes, good local services and quality local jobs all within a 30 min walk or a 15 min cycle of the centre. The core projects involve:

• developing a new town hub co-located alongside the town centre
• focusing the town centre around Main Street and the town hub
• building on local green network, active travel routes
• promoting ‘lifestyle appeal’ based on a mixed-use centre
• investing in town centre living with affordable homes for all