The community wealth minister visited Govan Graving Docks yesterday to announce £2.4 million would be spent on converting part of the site into a public green space
Plans to kick-start the development of a Govan dock that has lain derelict for 40 years prove the Scottish Government's "commitment" to Glasgow, an SNP minister has said.
It comes as a plan backed by several councils to turn the Clyde into a freeport failed last month after the UK and Scottish Governments backed two rival bids centred on Inverness and the Firth of Forth. "This is an exciting project but regeneration doesn't happen overnight. We're talking about 35 years since the closing of the docks to where we are now.
He said: "It is just over three years since the Scottish Government announced the Clyde Mission as a major regeneration initiative. The initiative now seems to have disappeared inside the civil service."
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