Building on the facilities of the existing Leisure and Health provision, the new centre will also create a focus for the growing community. The Vision will be built around a stronger sense of place that creates a new Town Centre.

Developed around Station Road, Benhar Road and High Street a new pattern of streets and urban green spaces will frame the old Iron Works Furnace Bank and create a destination.

Links to the Calderhead High School Campus and Rail Station and new investment in greenspace and the green network will create a new sense of place, growth and sustain a vibrant centre.

A growing community

Shotts is growing and with new homes and new neighbourhoods, it needs to develop a new centre for the community. Historically developed around several very small local villages the new town centre can link all local facilities and express a new sense of place and welcome.

With new homes planned and an extensive rural catchment, the new centre will provide a centre for a growing town.

A town centre

The town centre will develop the pattern of streets and spaces around the High Street / Station Street junction, making it an easier place to move around and connect the existing facilities with better routes, paths and cycleways.

Relocating and providing additional local convenience retailing, supporting café and mixed-use town centre shopping will create the footfall for the new centre.

Celebrating its heritage - building a sense of place

The Foundry Bank and greenspace can create a distinctive new sense of place visible from the town centre. Heritage and the story of Shotts will offer a theme for the greenspace and create an attractive destination and park within the town centre and accessible to all.

Shotts’ opportunities

Shotts is growing and needs to create a new sense of place built around a new town centre that is a focus for the community and the delivery of services to all the neighbourhoods including outlying smaller centres and villages.

The new centre can develop around its historic listed Foundry Buildings and link up the school, health and leisure centres to create a new heart to the community. The core projects involve:

• developing a new mixed-use town centre
• celebrating the towns heritage and industrial past
• connecting the school, health and leisure facilities
• developing the Green Network
• strengthening the community and Shotts as a great place to live