RAVENSCRAIG, once the lifeblood of Lanarkshire with its gigantic steelworks, could be an emblem of a very different sort of human achievement in 2012, as a training centre for athletes at the London Olympics.
A £29 million funding package was unveiled yesterday (£22 million from North Lanarkshire Council and developers Ravenscraig Limited; £7m from the government) as construction begins on the latest of Sportscotland's ten long-awaited regional sports centres. A state-of-the-art facility is due for completion in 2009 on 18 acres of the site of the former steelworks, a giant of heavy industry, which employed 6,000 at its heyday but which closed down in 1992, decimating the local economy.
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£29m regional training centre to be built on Ravenscraig steelworks site by 2009
£29m regional training centre to be built on Ravenscraig steelworks site by 2009
