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3.1.1 Environmental statement<br />

Dawn Developments Ltd/467374673/Queen’s Quay Masterplan EIA/KD<br />

04/01/2012<br />

Major Mixed Use Development, Queen's Quay, Clydebank<br />

EIA Scoping Report<br />

An EIA was carried out by McInally Associates Ltd in 2003 1 to inform the 2005 planning<br />

consent. The EIA covered a number of environmental themes including: traffic, noise,<br />

visual amenity, contaminated land, ecology, hydrology and hydrogeology, industrial<br />

archaeology and pollution control. A chapter on flood risk and another on sustainable<br />

urban drainage systems (SUDS) were also included.<br />

Detailed survey work was carried out to inform the EIA including:<br />

• junction surveys (traffic flow), November 2002;<br />

• baseline noise survey, March 2003;<br />

• viewpoint analysis (visual impact);<br />

• ground investigation, 2001;<br />

• phase 1 habitat survey, March 2003;<br />

• bat roost potential survey, 2003; and<br />

• archaeology walkover survey.<br />

3.1.2 Queen’s Quay Enterprise and<br />

Learning District<br />

In March 2005, Clydebank Property<br />

Company (a subsidiary of Clydebank Re-<br />

Built) acquired 16 acres of the Queen’s<br />

Quay site (located to the south-east of the<br />

current Development site boundary). The<br />

site was named the Queen’s Quay<br />

Enterprise and Learning District (QQELD)<br />

and a series of new developments have<br />

now been completed in this area including:<br />

• Refurbishment of the quayside;<br />

• Provision of a new pontoon;<br />

• Clydebank College;<br />

• Purser’s Office<br />

(Titan Crane Visitor’s Centre);<br />

1 Clydeside Regeneration Ltd. June 2003. Proposed Redevelopment of Queen’s Quay, Clydebank:<br />

Environmental Statement.<br />

Plate 5: Titan Enterprise building<br />

Page 9<br />

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