A planning application to create a new £6.7m office block in South Lanarkshire has been lodged with the council.

The proposal from Clyde Gateway involves developing Red Tree Shawfield in land between Shawfield Drive and the River Clyde.

Plans include building a four-storey block of 2,900 sq m providing between 37 and 50 office spaces.

Dougie Cameron, Project Manager at Clyde Gateway said: "The successful redevelopment of the Shawfield area is crucial to our long-term target of bringing 20,000 new jobs to the Clyde Gateway area by 2028. We have already spent more than £20 million, not only to rid the location of contamination and pollution, but to improve and modernise the infrastructure in and around Shawfield and so create the best possible conditions for further investment and redevelopment that will bring the site back into economic use."

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"The cost of the building has been estimated at £6.7m and Clyde Gateway has begun to investigate a range of options in terms of obtaining the funding.  If the proposal receives planning permission and the funding falls into place then we could potentially be on site by next summer with a project completion in mid-late 2017."

(LM)