'Owenstown'

A very potted history...

'...After years in preparation, the official planning application to build Owenstown was lodged with South Lanarkshire Council on Wednesday (2012) with the promise of 6000 jobs being initially created to construct 3200 new homes in the Douglas Valley.'

'...A decision is expected in 2013.'

"There are some wee snags..." Says Lesley Riddoch, 

"...Owenstown isn't part of the official development plan – it's currently neep fields. Will South Lanarkshire Council bend the rules and approve the planning submission? That's not certain. On the one hand there's no other way half a billion pounds of investment will pour into this declining, de-industrialised area. If the Hometown guys had bought development land they'd have forked out a hundred times more - such is the crazy way planning rules and speculation combine to halt development. But councillors may fear Owenstown is too clever by half – a private world within a world that will raise big hard-to-answer questions amongst existing council-tax payers...'  (Continues at link)

'...Around 1200 people from all over the world are interested in moving their families to Owenstown...However, there are still a number of people in the area objecting to the Owenstown project...' (Apr 2013)

'Owenstown plans under threat' 

'Is the Council about to score an Owen goal?'