Plans for a new sports pitch in Barrhead have been delayed due to rising costs, with two replacement projects progressing instead.
East Renfrewshire Council intended to use Scottish Government funding for a replacement multi-use games area at Dunterlie Resource Centre, but it emerged the work would now cost more than £450,000 — over £200,000 higher than the original estimate.
Council officials decided instead to share the £250,000, initially set aside for Dunterlie, between two other schemes - shopfront improvements in Neilston and business start-up space for Young Enterprise Scotland - to avoid losing the opportunity to use the money.
