Clydebank re-built

Town Centre

Town Centre

West Dunbartonshire Council and Clydebank re-built are working in partnership to improve the functioning of the town centre and to complement developmet activity on the riverside. Other projects being advanced include:

The Council-owned Playdrome leisure centre site has been marketed for a food superstore. Tesco has been identified as the preferred bidder and it is envisaged that the deal will be completed in early 2011.

Clydebank re-built is beginning the upgrading of strategic accesses around the town centre and the Chalmers Street transport hub. This will involve streetscape and new junction formation in the Hume Street and Alexander Street area as well as provision of new bus bays on Chalmers Street.

During 2011, West Dunbartonshire Council concluded an agreement with the supermarket operator,Tesco, to purchase the Playdrome leisure facility site to be redeveloped as a food superstore. The receipt from the sale will fund a new leisure centre at Queens Quay on the riverside. The new leisure facility will be completed before the Playdrome site is released to Tesco. As the two initiatives are linked, planning applications will be submitted at the same time, probably early 2012. It is expected that the new supermarket will be open in 2014.

This development will reinforce the town's role as a major retail destination and with the new owner of the shopping centre expected to make major investments in the coming years, the vibrancy and sustainability of the town centre is more certain.