Ravenscraig 200-acre site remediation gets go-ahead

A huge clean-up of the derelict Ravenscraig steelworks site will kick off early next year after planners gave the green light for one of Scotland’s biggest ever land-remediation jobs.
North Lanarkshire Council has approved extraction and remediation works across 200 acres of the 1,200-acre plot – unlocking the next phase of brownfield regeneration scheme.
The programme involves ripping out deep steelworks foundations and shifting more than 2.7m cubic metres of material to prepare lan