Coalburn, South Lanarkshire

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Coalburn is a village in South Lanarkshire, Scotland, UK.

1 History
2 One Stop Shop
3 Village expansion
4 External links

[edit] History

Coalburn is a small isolated village that lies on the Coal Burn, a tributary of the Douglas Water, 3 miles (5 km) south of Lesmahagow. Coalburn developed from the 1850s as a railway settlement associated with local coal mines. With the closure of the last colliery in 1965 and the railway in 1971, the village population declined from a peak of nearly 2,300 to 1,000.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] One Stop Shop

In order to provide a better quality of life the people of Coalburn have worked over the last few years to fund and renovate The Coalburn Miners Welfare by developing a modern One Stop Shop. The Coalburn One Stop Shop was opened just before Christmas 2003 and with the help of funding from Rural Challenge, Leader and many more. The One Stop Shop provides a number of community facilities under one roof. The aim was to help the community to develop IT skills, access training for jobs and improve the local childcare facilities. The One Stop Shop project has managed to maintain these aims and provide the community with various services of interest to young people and others, such as an IT suite, internet access, Cruets Cafe, a new childcare facilty, The Busy Bees, activity groups, various advice and employment services as well as an archive of local heritage for community use.

[edit] Village expansion

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The village of Coalburn is about to undergo a massive expansion program with the erection of some 400+ new homes. The majority of the village-folk strongly believe that the village as it is cannot cope with such a major increase in population. Poor road system, lack of facilities, no local job prospects, already stretched medical and education facilities are only a few of the issues that are causing people in the village concern. This massive increase in population will change the village-like community spirit that coalburn has enjoyed for many years. The new development has only outlined provision for 1 family pub and 1 outdoor sporting area, which, to many, seems like far too little in the way of compensation for this massive change.

All well and good if you like football of course! The young footballers of Coalburn and surrounding areas will be spoilt for choice! However, you have to ask what use this will be to the elderly of the village who are already too scared to open the front door of their homes after 5pm.

Although this will provide Better prospects for council tenants of the village who are looking to buy new homes, You have to wonder what will happen to the council schemes in the village.