About Better Barrhead
“Better Barrhead” is an initiative being promoted by East Renfrewshire Council and its partner organisations. The ten year, £100m plan will help ensure that Barrhead is a town that meets the need of the community, existing businesses and potential investors.
Like many similar sized towns, Barrhead has suffered in recent years with the closure of local industries like Shanks and Nestle leaving behind a town with fewer opportunities for employment and all of the associated problems that this can bring.
Despite this, the town has retained a strong and active community, hosts valuable facilities like the Sports Centre and award winning schools, provides excellent access to parks and walkways and is well served by transport links to Glasgow and the surrounding areas.
The Better Barrhead regeneration initiative aims to build on these existing strengths to help make Barrhead an even more attractive and vibrant town to live, work and play in. To achieve this, the Better Barrhead Framework sets out an ambitious plan which includes the following projects:
Develop new housing in and around the town centre to ensure young families don’t have to leave Barrhead to find affordable housing and to create more demand for local services
Provide modern business sites to support existing Barrhead businesses and to encourage further investment in the town.
Create a new state of the art health centre to meet all of the needs of the community in one, modern facility
Create a new Barrhead College facility providing opportunities for learning and development that will be available to everyone
Work with local businesses and community members to improve the environment of both Main Street and Cross Arthurlie Street to make them even more attractive to potential trade
Work with the community on a series of Public Space projects that will make the town even more attractive as a place to live, and a place to invest in.
You can find more information about these projects on this website or if you have any further questions please contact the regeneration team using the contact details listed below:
E-mail: gillian.mcnamara@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0141 577 3044E-mail: daniel.mckendry@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0141 577 8481E-mail: gavin.russell@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0141 577 3499E-mail: ronan mellan@eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk
Telephone: 0141 577 8544