Who lives in New Lanark?

The New Lanark Trust [NLT] manages 45 rented properties. Some are currently unoccupied. Most of the rented properties are in New Buildings, Nursery Buildings and Caithness Row. There are four NLT rented houses in Long Row.

Braxfield Row has ten owner occupied houses.

 
Long Row has ten owner occupied houses, two of which are currently privately owned but unoccupied.
 

Double Row has seven houses. One is occupied, four have been sold but are not occupied and two are unsold. An eight house is in its original condition and may become a museum.

There are forty two [71%] households living in rented houses or flats owned and managed by the NLT.

There are seventeen households [29%] living in properties they own, or rent from an absent owner.

Who pays for the village TV aerial?

The NLVG is responsible for maintaining the village's TV aerial and cable network. To fund any work that is required they collect an annual  fee of £35 for each unit which can receive a signal.

The hotel pays 49 fees for TVs in  the hotel, waterhouses and hostel.

New Lanark Holmes pays 45 fees for their tenanted properties. The fee is collected from tenants in their rent.

Last year we had twenty privately owned properties in Braxfield Row, Long Row and Double Row which could receive the TV signal. One property in Braxfield Row was not connected to the system.

One of the twenty was not asked to pay because it provides electrical power for part of the system.

Two properties are vacant.
 
Twelve properties paid.

Five Braxfield Row properties did not pay. At least one Braxfield Row property did not pay because it did not use the signal.

The NLVG's aerial fund has a balance of £24,263 in July 2019 with a further  £2,000+ yet to be received.

Note - the NLVG is only responsible for the TV system. It has nothing to do with the telephone/internet system. That is the responsibility of BT and other telephone/internet providers.

Village residents

Villagers in 1985

Villagers in 1989

This website has launched a project to try and put names to these faces.

Villagers in 2019

Some of the villagers and guests at the NL Village Group get together on Friday the 23rd August in the NL Mill Hotel. The party was organised by Lorna Grant [Long Row], the Social Secretary of the NLVG. Catering was provided by the Mill Hotel. All village residents were welcome.

Village management

 New Lanark Trust Management Plan 2019-2023     Link

We invite your comments on the following questions.

What should the Trust do to improve village life?

What are the main issues facing people living in the village?

Toxic waste dumping in New Lanark

The Trust is investigating the possibility that toxic waste was dumped at the Clearburn site in the 1980/90s. It is assumed that the material dumped at this site came from the clearance of the Metal Extractions works by Mill One.

This is the area above the children's play area. The village bonfire and fireworks display were held on the site.

Update June 2020

No action has been taken to investigate toxic leakage from the site.

Village History

We will be making regular postings of stories and photographs from the past. Do you have any you could contribute?

The mill area when it was controlled by Metal Extractions. Note the Second World War air raid shelters [now demolished] and the two men working on restoring Dale's House. Also Mill One before it was demolished.

Repairing Caithness Row

 Note the building to the right. It is now an ugly pair of garages. What were its previous uses?

Rosedale Street

None of the residents of New Lanark own any land outside their dwellings. All the land in the village [apart from the public road] is owned and managed by the Trust. This website wants to ensure that, in future, the land in the residential areas gets the same level of attention as the land around the mills.

Rosedale Street

The road surface is in a very poor condition and has been so for several decades. The condition affects the value of the Rosedale Street houses and makes them difficult to sell. It may be reducing the value of each Long Row and Double Row house by as much as £20,000. There are also issues with noise, dirt and damage to vehicles.

The NLVG AGM was given information on the Trust's plans for the next few years. It was clear that the surfacing of Rosedale Street is a low priority item. It is unlikely that the work will begin this year and may be delayed beyond 2020. The Trust was unable to make any commitment on the standard of the work that would be undertaken.

We believe that Rosedale Street must be surfaced to the  same standard as the public road into the village and not just consist of another dump of chippings.

Update

At its May 2019 meeting Scott McCauley, the Trust's Chief Executive, promised the NLVG that the surfacing of Rosedale Street would be completed by the end of this year and that the surfacing would be to the same standard as the public road into the village. It is not yet clear if the work would be done by the Trust or following the council's adoption of the road.

The first step will be to complete the utilities connections to all the Double Row houses.