Up to £4 million is to be invested at the Eurocentral commercial site in North Lanarkshire.

The outline business case for the proposed Holytown Link Road and Eurocentral Park, Ride and Share projects has now been approved and a planning application for the scheme will be submitted.

An additional £4m of City Deal funding has been released to support the projects' development, which is part of the council's wider £12.6m programme of support to improve access and connectivity in the A8/M8 corridor area between Baillieston and Newhouse.

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Cllr Allan Graham said: "The investment will help attract new businesses to Eurocentral and Maxim Business Park, creating an estimated 400 new jobs.

"The project will also assist in supporting improved bus services to open up job opportunities to more residents in the surrounding areas.

"For local people, the link road will allow them to access local, sustainable job opportunities as well as taking heavy traffic away from Holytown Main Street and nearby residential areas. As a significant part of the Eurocentral site is still to be developed, the road will also safeguard against increases in traffic generated by future growth."

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