E2million lorry park planned for west of Scotland
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PLANS lbr one Of Britain's largest overnight lorry parks with drivers' facilities have been lodged with a West of Scotland district council.
A development company, Strathallan Enterprises, seeks
planning per from Motherwell District Council for the Lorry Lodge, a 500vehicle park on an eight hectare derelict site at Mossend, near Bellsh ill.
It is on a site which the Scottish Development Agency has wanted to develop as a haulage base — possibly as a rail-connected depot — for more than two years as part of a 1:57 million regeneration of the Motherwell area.
Strathallan's 2 million plan includes 150-seat restaurants, 30 bedrooms, function and entertainment rooms, two bars, a shop, toilet and washing facilities, fuelling and servicing facilities, and phones, telex machines and a CB radio terminal.
CB would be used to give drivers details of traffic conditions in the area and would take onward bookings from drivers.
The site, which is close to the SDA foodpark at Bellshill and several national companies' Scottish distribution depots, is to be connected direct to the Bellshill by-pass and the Scottish trunk road network.
It has possibilities of tackling a lorry parking problem created in this area by the closure of a lorry park in nearby Hamilton.