East Kilbride, United Kingdom, Europe
Year 1947 latitude: 55° 46' longitude: -4° 10' Period Mark 1 Initiator(s) Planning organization Development Corporation Nationality initiator(s) U.K. Designer(s) / Architect(s) Design organization Inhabitants 76,000 (2011) Target population 82,000 Town website Town related links http://www.southlanarkshire.gov.uk Literature type of New Town: > scale of autonomy New-Town-in-Town Satellite New Town Company Town > client Private Corporation Public Corporation > policy Capital Decentralization Industrialization Resettlement Economic
"The first New Town to be designated in Scotland, East Kilbride was part of a plan to restructure the wider Glasgow conurbation through the dispersal of population and industry. 40% of the designated area was intended as Green Belt (in 1997 the built area consisted of about 54% of the land area). Today, East Kilbride is one of Scotland‘s largest towns. Popularity of the ‘Right to Buy’ has left a shortage of socially rented housing in East Kilbride, and it is South Lanarkshire’s most pressured housing market area. However, a number of large residential development areas will provide a mix of house types and tenures. The town centre is undergoing a major ten-year redevelopment that will see the creation of a landmark arts and culture complex, with a theatre, a conference centre, a museum, and a new town square." source: Town & Country Planning Association (TCPA) https://www.tcpa.org.uk/east-kilbride
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