Lonry park creates 60 jobs
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• A lorry park is to be built in Lanarkshire, creating nearly 60 new jobs.
Clydesdale District Council has given local businessman Jim Rossiter planning permission to build the 250,000 truckshop on a two hectare (five-acre) site north of Lesmahagow.
Recently, plans for an even bigger lorry park for Bel'shill (CM, June 28) were turned down by Motherwell District Council following objections from residents.
Clydesdale has welcomed the truckshop and the jobs it will bring.
Rossiter and his wife Sheila currently run Star service station on the A74 Glasgow-Carlisle road.
Their transport cafe, will disappear when the M74 is extended.
It was following plans from lorry drivers that Rossiter decided to investigate the possibility of opening a truckstop.
With help from Life, Lanarkshire's business development agency, he was able to arrange a financial package, and the development is expected to open early next year. The truckshop will consist of an hotel, games room, video room, TV room, lounge bar, showering and washing facilities, and is a fuelling depot. Work begins in August.
He said: "I was given a lot of assistance from Life who helped, put together a financial package involving Shell, Tennent Caledonian Breweries, NCB Enterprises, and the Royal Bank of Scotland.''