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Search the Public Notice PortalConcerns over proposals to remove an access road costing £1 million at the former ExxonMobil site in Bowling have been raised by a West Dunbartonshire councillor.
The site is currently being transformed through a £27.89 million joint investment by the Glasgow City Deal and West Dunbartonshire Council and is part of the Clyde Waterfront and West End Innovation Quarter.
It aims to remediate 150 acres for industrial, storage, distribution, and office use and include a new railway bridge, road infrastructure, and a spine road.
During a recent full council meeting an update on the programme, which remains on target, was brought before members.
They were asked to remove the eastern access road from the design which would keep the project within the agreed budget but not every councillor was convinced this was a good idea.
Councillor David McBride said: “I would like to ask officers what the impact of this removal will be.
“Will it have an impact on the desirability of the marketing going forward? Could this hold us back in future and if council decided not to agree to the recommendation but actually increase the budget, what would be the cost to the council both overall and on an annual basis.”
Asset manager Michelle Lynn agreed that including the road would give the council a more marketable site.
She said: “It really depends on the end user and what the end user wants to use. It could be a disadvantage if we put a road in that they don’t require but in general that would improve the marketability of the site.
“It would also be an advantage to unlocking an adjacent site that we have because we will be providing access to that as well that could be marketed.”
Councillor McBride then presented a motion to include the road while councillor Jim Bollan presented an amendment to remove it.
Councillor Bollan said: “This project is now over budget of the original estimate of about £27 million and I think to now say we will invest another £1 million which will cost the council £2.8 million [including interest] I don’t think is the right thing to do.”
Following a vote, the majority of councillors agreed to keep the access road.
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