Interactive Cardenden Eco-town website goes live

Monday 01 September 2008

An interactive website designed to keep the local community up-to-date with developments around the Cardenden eco-town proposals has gone live.

Hamilton-based developers Banks Developments has set up the http://www.banksdevelopments.com/cardenden site to help make as much information about the proposed scheme as easily available as possible, and to provide an easy way for local residents to give their opinions and ideas about it.

Downloadable versions of the project brochure and community engagement strategy have been made available on the site, as well as the latest version of the site masterplan, which will be regularly updated as more details are added.

Additional background information about the principles and practicalities of sustainable development and design has also been included, along with text and images describing the overall vision for the Cardenden eco-town.

Banks Developments is hoping to transform the four former mining communities of Auchterderren, Bowhill, Cardenden and Dundonald through housing-led regeneration and sustainable expansion, and will be submitting the eco-town proposals to the Scottish Sustainable Communities Initiative (SSCI) as an exemplar of highest quality development.

If approved, the eco-town would include a wide range of houses, including terrace, semi-detached, detached and apartments, and the latest technologies and renewable energy sources would be used through the development.

Initial exhibitions of plans for the proposed scheme have already been held, and further community consultation events are scheduled to take place later in the year.

Siobhan Samson, community engagement coordinator at Banks Developments, says: “There has been a generally positive local response to our eco-town plans so far, as well as a lot of interest in what we’re proposing, and we want to ensure that people are able to easily access up-to-date information on the proposals, and express their opinions and ideas about them.

“The new website contains a great deal of useful information, and we hope that it will create a lot of interest amongst the local community and other interested parties.

“We believe the proposals that we’re developing for Cardenden set new standards in sustainable design and ‘eco-regeneration’, and expect that the SSCI submission we’ll be making next month will significantly raise the bar for the Scottish development industry.”

Last updated: Tuesday 02 September 2008, 13:54 PM