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CLYDE GATEWAY ACCOUNTS, KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS AND ANNUAL REPORT 2016/17 2 A An investment of £5.5m is delivering a new 27,500 3 sq ft industrial unit at Clyde Gateway East Business Park, ready for occupation by Autumn 2017 REPORT BY CHAIR Some of the new buildings and facilities that have been constructed or opened across Clyde Gateway since 2008 A. Social Rented Housing in Bridgeton B. Community facilities in Rutherglen C. Railway Station in Dalmarnock B D. Offices in Rutherglen E. The Olympia, Bridgeton This is the ninth Annual Report both Glasgow and South Lanarkshire. which is making a real difference each produced by Clyde Gateway. It provides These include the two business parks and every single day. Three of those an overview of our investment in the in which we have been heavily involved, politicians, by choosing to stand down twelve months ended 31 March 2017, at Clyde Gateway East and Rutherglen from local government also automatically together with a commentary on how we Links, which are being occupied by an retired from our board in May 2017 and E are progressing across nine key excellent mix of those types of industries, I would again like to thank Chris performance indicators. such as energy, telecommunications, Thompson, George Redmond and Denis direct services and distribution, that are McKenna for all of their work over the The work involved in regenerating what essential elements of a growing and years. They took their leave of Clyde have historically been some of our sustainable modern economy. All of Gateway having each made an immense most disadvantaged communities is, these new offices, factories and contribution to an incredible legacy by nature, always challenging, complex industrial units sit alongside a range of and ensuring that their successors are and time-consuming. We have not high-quality and popular community perfectly placed to complete the task at yet reached the halfway stage of our assets, improved transport facilities and hand. C 20-year programme of activities but it is new housing as part of what is a highly already abundantly clear that our efforts visible physical transformation across There is a real determination with and outcomes will be on a scale and at the area; but as has been said time and everyone associated with Clyde Gateway, a level never seen before in Scotland, time again, physical change on its own board members and staff alike, to bring especially in respect of reducing is not enough. back pride and a real sense of purpose inequalities across a number of social to an area which many outside and economic measures. Clyde Gateway prides itself on the fact commentators had written off completely we have, from the outset, established not too many years ago. This latest A great deal of public money has been and maintained excellent relationships annual report provides an account of very invested in Clyde Gateway, particularly with local residents and business worthy achievements but in doing so it by our partners at Glasgow City Council, owners. We have a common agenda provides evidence that there is still so South Lanarkshire Council and that puts jobs as the number one priority much more to do in the years ahead. Scottish Enterprise, along with the with every possible effort being made to Scottish Government. This collective ensure work and training opportunities I may have earlier singled out the three effort is paying dividends in many are provided to those most requiring departing politicians but I would also like different ways, not least by creating the them. We have also shown that we are to express my gratitude to every member best possible conditions to attract the a listening organisation, prepared to of the board for giving so freely of their D levels of private sector support that will take on board the views and opinions of time and talents and my thanks also to be required to reach our ambitious but the community and to deliver the Ian Manson and his executive team for achievable long-term targets, particularly projects, programmes and investments continually rising to the day-to-day around the creation of new business that they see as key to sustaining challenges. space and the number of jobs that can improved wellbeing. be brought to the area. Finally, my biggest thanks are reserved This open and welcome approach to for everyone who takes an interest in our There have been several encouraging regeneration is one that has always work. I hope you will find the contents of signs over the past 12 months, been demanded by our partners, and this report to be informative, interesting especially the increasing involvement in particular by the local politicians who and in due course, inspiring. of the private sector with a number of were instrumental in developing Clyde commercial and industrial buildings Gateway from what was just an idea on Lord Smith of Kelvin being constructed at key locations in a piece of paper into an organisation September 2017 4 5 REPORT BY CHIEF EXECUTIVE The study endorses all that we had The researchers are very positive about This latest edition of our Annual Report been setting out to do since day one. what has been achieved but they also outlines, in some detail, the progress It describes us as ‘a facilitator and reach an important final conclusion that we are making under an agreed series enabler of positive change. Clyde ‘the positive physical, economic of Key Performance Indicators. They Gateway has no agenda other and social and change aspired provide evidence of what has been a than to achieve positive change' to is, however, only half done’, very strong performance to date against and states our communities are of the an opinion that is shared by our board a background of difficult and uncertain economic circumstances as well as opinion that ‘Clyde Gateway has members, our staff and most giving comfort that, with the continued no agenda other than to achieve importantly of all, the people who live and work in our communities. resource support of our partners and positive change in the area’. backers, we will achieve a The study can be viewed at self-sustaining and world-class It also says that Clyde Gateway is transformation of our communities. ‘always keen to learn from other whatworksscotland.ac.uk/ publications/economic-regeneration regeneration projects, there is no Scotland’s biggest and most ambitious -in-scotland-past-lessons complacency in its approach and regeneration programme is very much -current-practice-future-challenges there is an openness and on track. willingness to hear new and There is an understandable pride and innovative ways of doing things’. quiet level of satisfaction in this Ian Manson recognition of our efforts but more September 2017 The regeneration of urban areas has some tidying-up to make the area look regeneration with the research looking Praise is offered for the fact that Clyde important is the conclusion that much been going on for much longer than nicer. at a number of projects, including Clyde Gateway invests remains to be done. We recognise and most people realise. The first planned Gateway. The final report, published ‘significant time understand fully that the challenges that example can be traced back to the I took on the role of Chief Executive nine in August 2017, contains, in effect, an and resources to help build and lie ahead are more difficult and complex 1860s when the governing bodies in years ago with the promise that Clyde audit of our progress to date; it provides maintain strong relationships than those we have overcome thus far, London implemented a series of plans Gateway was going to undertake a facts, figures and statistics on what across public, private and third but the task is one that we are relishing. that sought to address newly emerging whole new approach to regeneration. we have achieved since 2008 and it sector partners to the benefit of issues from the rapid expansion of I was determined, as indeed were each reaches a number of conclusions based the area’. industry and the accompanying boom of our partners at council and on an analysis of our interactions with in population. The beginning of government level, to ensure our greatest the community together with a robust regeneration programmes closer to achievements would be centred on local measurement of our effectiveness in home date back at least fifty years to people benefitting directly in the ways tackling our strategic goals. an era when the city of Glasgow and its they most wanted. surrounding towns looked for innovative The study reflects on our success in The Library at the Olympia at Bridgeton Cross whose re-opening in 2012 provides one of the best examples ways to resolve the problems from the As we edge towards the milestone of core aspects of regeneration activities, in how Clyde Gateway has responded to the wishes and demands of the local community rapid decline of the traditional heavy being halfway through the stated life namely that we have ensured continued industries on which the economy had expectancy of Clyde Gateway, it is support from our three formal partners at been dependent. worth talking time to pause and reflect Glasgow City Council, South Lanarkshire on whether things are working out as Council and Scottish Enterprise, Every regeneration effort, no matter its hoped and planned. attracted substantial levels of funding size or the location in which it is centred, from the Scottish Government, committed leads to all sorts of change to the There has always been evidence everyone (including the local community) landscape and environment.

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