ELEANOR McALLISTER

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ELEANOR McALLISTER DIRECTOR
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SOME HISTORY

• 70s and 80s collapse of traditional industry
• - Singers was the last blow with loss of 20,000
  jobs
• public sector response Enterprise Zone
• HCI Private Hospital
• 90s till now - continued decline at 1000 jobs
  a year
• Kvaerner - 530 jobs
• UIE - 1600 jobs
• GE Services - 300 jobs
• Unemployment now 8.9 - highest LA area in
  Scotland

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THE WAY BACK

• Task Force established - not a ministerial
  initiative

• framework for development worked up
• - primarily a physical response

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THE WAY BACK

• social and economic integration essential
• delivery mechanism to reflect holistic response
  required

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THE MECHANISM

• Urban Development Company model favoured

• its objective is to
• reposition Clydebank as a distinctive,
• successful, well performing regional centre
• within the Glasgow Metropolitan area

• Its name is Clydebank re- Built Ltd

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LOCATION! LOCATION! LOCATION!

• Clydebank is part of a city region
• - how can it assist to improve the regional
  competitiveness
• - how do we get noticed?
• Anyway, what are the interventions needed?
• - what drives regional competitiveness nowadays?

• In post industrial economies, place itself is a
  source
• of competitive advantage

- image, amenity, quality, governance
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National and Regional Focus
The Clyde Corridor Working Group concluded that
if the Clyde is to be a waterfront of world
class quality, it needs to
- create locations for business, housing and
learning on brownfield sites with the
quality of a greenbelt environment
- ensure accessibility to new locations and
develop on a human scale - a
waterfront for citizens
- integrate transport systems
- regional partners need to work together to
create change throughout the
metropolitan area
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CLYDEBANK Re-BUILTS ROLE IN NATIONAL AND
REGIONAL FRAMEWORK

• Transform Clydebank to create a distinctive,
• quality location for new business, new
  housing,
• new learning investment and new civic amenity

• develop locations with sufficient critical
  mass to
• sustain the towns own integrity

• thereby enhancing the competitiveness of the
  Glasgow
• city-region and reducing the pressure on the
  greenbelt