Town-centre plan and upgrade

The council’s September 2022 Blantyre Town Centre Strategy listed “upgrade of leisure facility” as a physical-environment action, specifying an upgrade of Blantyre Leisure Centre. Its action table refers to a council report presented on 25 March 2020 and said options and funding issues should be assessed over a 36-month timescale. This records a planned decision process, not the date works began or the completion of that particular proposal. Council strategy, p. 12 (South Lanarkshire Council: Blantyre Town Centre Strategy and Action Plan)

The Quarter 4 Council Plan Connect report for 2025–26 later listed gym and studio upgrades at Blantyre Leisure Centre among the completed projects funded through South Lanarkshire Council’s £13 million Transformation Fund. The report dates its performance data to 2 July 2026, but does not isolate Blantyre’s cost, the upgrade’s exact completion date, or whether this completed work is identical to the option-assessment described in the 2022 strategy. Council Plan Connect, data as at 2 July 2026 (South Lanarkshire Council: Council Plan Connect Quarter 4, 2025–26)