Refurbishment work is to start on a visitor centre in North Lanarkshire.

The centre at Drumpellier Country Park will close on 22 October.

The centre will be refurbished and extended to create a new viewing area over the loch, with displays telling the story of the park and the Seven Lochs project.


Accessible toilets will be installed, more spaces created in the main loch-side car park and information points around the park are being developed.

The work is part of a £6.8 million project to develop the Seven Lochs Wetland Park, Scotland's largest urban nature park, which stretches from Hogganfield in the west to Drumpellier and Gartcosh in the east. From 2016 to 2021, the Seven Lochs Heritage Project aims to improve and protect the area's heritage buildings, wildlife habitat and archaeology to create a new attraction of national significance.

The visitor centre will reopen in Spring 2019.