A masterplan for a £500m regeneration project on the Ardeer Peninsula, Scotland, has been submitted to North Ayrshire council.
The 15-year project by Scottish-based NPL Estates will create more than 1300 new homes and 1000 jobs on the brownfield site.
NPL, in partnership with North Ayrshire council, aims to deliver business and industrial parks, a golf and marina development, a neighbourhood centre and a major extension to Ardeer and Stevenston towns.
Architecture and planning practice Keppie Design masterplanned the former explosive plant site, which was home to Alfred Nobel’s Explosives Company and owned by ICI until 1998.
The core objectives of the masterplan are to clean up the site, create employment, protection and enhancement of the environment and the creation of a sustainable, extended community.
Simon Towers, managing director of NPL Estates, said: “This exciting plan is the culmination of over five years’ design and consultation work.
“It will deliver unprecedented regeneration in an area which has experienced a decline in socio-economic conditions following the downturn of heavy industry.”
Suzanne McIntosh, associate at Keppie Design, said: “We are delighted to be working on such a visionary project which will be key to reviving the whole area.
“This is one of the largest brownfield regeneration projects in the country. We look forward to being part of such an important project.”
