People in the Blantyre and surrounding area have been experiencing power outages, surges and complete power cuts today. Some still ongoing tonight in the G32 and G72 postcodes. Power surges have caused issues with electrical appliances and house alarms. Power cuts have left some people without electricity for many hours today, Monday 24th January 2022. […]
Work is presently underway at Wheatlands to enable Super Fast Broadband for the area. BT are currently working at Orchard Drive which is expected to last 3 days, with intention of getting to other streets shortly. Contractors on behalf of Openreach are enabling new localised ultra-fast broadband connections. This activity involves excavation to Install telecoms […]
Signage has been going up at the entrance to Park Lane, Blantyre this week in advance of the planned “car free zones”. The zoned area was supposed to happen in April 2020, but delayed due to the pandemic. Of course this is in relation to school traffic with residents access continuing as normal. What are […]
We’ve been hearing of something strange happening in Blantyre this last week. (Stranger than usual, that is!) Several reports of resident’s TV’s coming on by themselves during the night! The weird phenomenon has been reported by different readers in the Blantyre area over the festive holiday period and it’s unknown what’s causing it. In each […]
Roads and Transport have erected Emergency Traffic management on Glasgow Road at Springwells, Blantyre, due to problems with the existing Miller’s Fireplace building. The roadworks are in place and been erected due to dangerous building no. 26-28 Glasgow Road with the footway closed. The building is in a terrible state of repair, subsided and has […]
Developers have commenced building the new flats and homes at Church Street. Planning was granted by South Lanarkshire Council earlier this year for the erection of 20 new cottage flats with associated parking, vehicular access and landscaping at the bottom of Church Street. Site clearance has been completed, a task that was actually started the […]
It’s Friday afternoon, almost the weekend and Glasgow Road has now re-opened! Surfacing works are now complete and traffic is moving once again.
Fifteen days of surfacing works is due to start soon on Hunthill Road. South Lanarkshire Council intend to re-surface the footway between Stonefield Crescent and Watson Street along Hunthill Road, Blantyre commencing Monday, 25th October 2021. Work is expected to take 15 days and confined to the west (calder) side only. It is understood vehicle […]