South Lanarkshire Council

South Lanarkshire Council provides services for 308,000 people and looks after a large area within central and southern Scotland.

Our larger towns are East Kilbride, Scotland's first and most successful new town, the burghs of Cambuslang and Rutherglen and the county town of Hamilton where the Council has its headquarters. Our beautiful countryside includes the Clyde Valley and the market towns of Lanark, Carluke and Biggar.

We have 16,250 employees (6000 working part-time) and our gross annual budget is around £1billion.

We have been working hard to ensure our area is thriving. Since the last council elections in May 2007, we have set out our plans for the next four years in our new Council Plan Connect, which builds on the success of FourCast, our last four-year plan.

There's a great deal more we want to achieve.

We have six main priorities. They are to improve the quality of our Council houses and ensure more affordable homes are built; to develop new services for the growing numbers of older people; to improve the environment and make sure our towns and villages are safe, attractive places to be; to improve our road network; to continue to modernise our schools and to encourage sustainable development.

Connect - Council Plan 2007-2011 (2MB PDF) (this document will open in a new window) was approved unanimously by the full Council in October 2007.

And together with North Lanarkshire Council and New Lanarkshire Ltd, we have won our bid to host the 2011 International Children's Games.

Dumfries and Galloway Council

Dumfries and Galloway Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council along its southern edge in the Clydesdale area of the authority.
www.dumgal.gov.uk

East Ayrshire Council

East Ayrshire Council shares a common border with South Lanarkshire Council along its western edge in the East Kilbride and Clydesdale area of the authority.
www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk

East Renfrewshire Council

East Renfrewshire Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council along its north-western corner in the Rutherglen and East Kilbride areas of the authority.
www.eastrenfrewshire.gov.uk

Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council along its north-western edge in the Rutherglen and Cambuslang area of the authority.
www.glasgow.gov.uk

North Lanarkshire Council

North Lanarkshire Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council. For electoral purposes, the Scottish Parliamentary constituency of Hamilton North and Bellshill covers part of Hamilton (Whitehill, Almada, Chantinghall, Wellhall, Auchingramont and part of Hamilton Central areas), Bothwell and Uddingston.
www.northlan.gov.uk

Scottish Borders Council

Scottish Borders Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council along its eastern edge in the Clydesdale area of the authority.
www.scotborders.gov.uk

West Lothian Council

West Lothian Council shares a common boundary with South Lanarkshire Council along its north-eastern corner in the Clydesdale area of the authority.
www.westlothian.gov.uk