Infrastructure

Regional Projects include:

Clyde Metro (Case for Investment)

The Clyde Metro project aims to provide transformational change for Glasgow City Region – connecting more people with opportunity, welcoming visitors and investors, reducing carbon emissions, and providing the platform for Glasgow City Region to fulfil its potential as the ‘economic powerhouse for Scotland’.

Clyde Metro was a key recommendation from Transport Scotland’s national Strategic Transport Projects Review 2 (STPR2) in December 2022 and is included in the National Planning Framework 4.

In November 2023, SPT were confirmed as the lead and procuring organisation, working in partnership with Glasgow City Council and Transport Scotland on the Case for Investment deliverables. This includes a network of route options to improve connectivity to key sites across the Region.

More information on the Clyde Metro project can be found on the SPT website.

Enabling Commercial Space (ECS)

The Enabling Commercial Space project was approved by the Glasgow City Region Cabinet in February 2025 as a new City Deal project which will provide funding to all eight of the Region’s councils to refurbish existing or create new commercial or industrial premises.

The project has been designed to tackle a key problem identified within the Region’s Economic Strategy around a lack of available modern, high-quality commercial and industrial premises. It will open up areas of industrial land capable of immediate development, attract private sector investment, create more flexible business space for a broad range of sectors, bringing sites on the Vacant and Derelict Land Register back into use and importantly create sustainable, high-quality business locations to support SMEs, supply chain businesses and start-ups.

The project includes three main types of interventions: enabling activity (investment in infrastructure that facilitates private sector development); refurbishment of existing buildings; and new build construction.