Residents in the Wishaw and Shotts areas have voted for the development of an outdoor gym and multi-use games area in Harthill.

These projects will be brought forward under the Participatory Budgeting (PB) initiative, which sees projects with the most public votes brought forward.

In the public park, a multi-use games area (MUGA) will be built with facilities for football and basketball. The surface allows the area to be used all year round. Work should start in April, with the MUGA opening by June.

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An outdoor gym for older children and adults will be installed next to the community centre on Victoria Street, with a range of equipment including a rowing machine, arm, leg and chest workout machines and a fitness frame. Equipment features pistons that can be adjusted to different abilities. The gym will be free to use, with information about workouts available via an app.

Further projects under development include a new play area within the housing development planned for Albert Road and a new war memorial next to the mining memorial in West Main Street.

Projects in the other areas of the pilot Participatory Budgeting programme will be announced shortly, and participatory budgeting will be rolled out to all communities in North Lanarkshire in the future.

(CM/JG)