National Planning Policy Guidance 2: Business and Industry (NPPG2) recognises the need to identify and safeguard Large Single User High Amenity Sites. These sites require to meet demanding criteria in terms of amenity, access to the motorway network, site size and availability. The guidance recognises that demand for these sites is limited but that the benefits to the Scottish economy in terms of jobs, investment and spin-off activity from mobile investment opportunities are significant.

Within the City, the following locations have been designated as Large Single User High Amenity Sites. It is important that these locations are safeguarded from alternative forms of development, since they form part of the City’s portfolio of sites for potential inward investment and help ensure that Glasgow remains a competitive industrial and business location (see policy DEV 3: Industry and Business).

1. The following locations are identified as Proven Large Single User High Amenity Sites and are safeguarded for single industrial or business users.

Robroyston (North) (5 ha)

Robroyston (South) (34 ha)

2. The following location is identified as a Potential Large Single User High Amenity Site and should be safeguarded for a single industrial or business user until its suitability and availability is established.

Darnley Mains (5 ha)

Note:

Development of all or part of these sites or the development of adjacent sites, which could prejudice their development potential, require to be notified to the Scottish Executive.

See the Strategic Industrial and Business Areas Maps sheet.