• 11 acre / 4.45 hectare cleared site FOR SALE • 12 miles from Glasgow City Centre PROMINENT • Excellent motorway access via Raith Interchange INDUSTRIAL WHISTLEBERRY ROAD DEVELOPMENT HAMILTON ML3 0EG OPPORTUNITY The site is located in a prominent raised position on WHISTLEBERRY ROAD Whistleberry Road, overlooking affluent Bothwell, close HAMILTON ML3 0EG to the town of Hamilton, which lies approximately 12 miles away from Glasgow City Centre.
Access to Junction 5 of the A725 Expressway is just M73 M8 COATBRIDGE JLL and Graham + Sibbald are delighted minutes away. Hamilton has a resident population to present to market a rare opportunity of around 50,000 people and is close to the large GLASGOW neighbouring towns of East Kilbride and Motherwell. to acquire this c. 11 acre development site overlooking affluent Bothwell, on The site benefits from excellent connectivity – being A74 M8 in close proximity to the Raith Interchange which the edge of Hamilton close to the M74. 1 will shortly provide a link to the M74, East Kilbride 4 BELLSHILL Expressway (A725) and Belshill by-pass, thereby providing immediate access to Glasgow and Edinburgh, A775 as well as Carlisle & the south. UDDINGSTON A725
A724 A749 5 MOTHERWELL
M74 A725 6
EAST EXCELLENT KILBRIDE HAMILTON J5 7
LOCATION Bothwell
A725
Blantyre M74 Raeburn Drilling Strathclyde Loch
Finning
Audi B&M Lidl
Macklin Motors
Farmfoods Volvo WHISTLEBERRY ROAD HAMILTON ML3 0EG
DESCRIPTION
The site is the location of the former Craighead School which closed in October 2009 and was subsequently demolished. In the subsequent 9 years the site has been considered for a number of different uses, including the approval of a waste processing plant, as well as consent for Use Classes 4, 5 and 6.
Nearby occupiers include, Finning, the worlds largest Caterpillar dealer, Portakabin’s Glasgow HQ and car dealerships inclduing Audi, Ford, Mazda and Volvo.Lidl, Farmfoods and B&M, are also located nearby at the top of Whistleberry Road.
The site is level and consists of a mixture of clear ground, aggregate and woodlands.
PLANNING
Within the Local Development Plan, adopted 9th April 2021, the site is currently zoned for ‘Other Employment Land Use Area’ and ‘Green Network’.
The previous Local Development Plan was adopted April 2015 and showed no material alterations have been made to the site.
Historically, consent for an energy from waste facility was consented. We understand that obtaining alternative consent for Use Classes 4,5 and 6 would be possible but interested parties should make their own enquiries. WHISTLEBERRY ROAD HAMILTON ML3 0EG
OFFERS
Offers are invited, however should a closing date for offers be set, any interested parties are advised to notify the joint selling agents of their interest in order to be kept advised of a closing date.
Offers will be required to be in Scots legal form and should provide information relative to their offer supporting their proposal both in terms of technical consideration and deliverability as well as being able to demonstrate ability to fund the proposed development. Information which requires to be submitted with the legal offer will be set out in the closing date notification letter.
FURTHER INFORMATION
For futher details please contact the joint selling agents: Andrew McCracken Mark Gillies 07775 813 538 07787 291 149 0141 567 6635 0141 567 5358 [email protected] [email protected]
Disclaimer JLL for themselves and for the vendors or lessors of this property whose agents they are, give notice that:- a. the particulars are set out as a general outline only for guidance and do not constitute, nor constitute part of, an offer or contract; b. all descriptions, dimensions, references to condition and necessary permissions for use and occupation, and other details are believed to be correct, but any intending purchasers, tenants or third parties should not rely on them as statements or representations of fact but satisfy themselves that they are correct by inspection or otherwise; c. no person in the employment of JLL has any authority to make or give any representation or warranty whatever in relation to the property; d. Any images may be computer generated. Any photographs show only certain parts of the property as they appeared at the time they were taken. e. This correspondence is expressly subject to completion of formal legal missives in accordance with Scots Law. May 2021.