Bellsmyre

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'Bellsmyre' is a large housing scheme of the town of Dumbarton in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland. Situated on a hill, It is located in the northeast of Dumbarton. It has above average rates of social problems such as drugs, theft, and regular gang activity. It is also an economically deprived area, with a high degree of unemployment and poverty. Bellsmyre is one of four council schemes in Dumbarton, the other three being Westcliff, Brucehill and Castlehill. Bellsmyre, along with the three other estates, is one of the least sought-after areas in Dumbarton. The area, however, with a bad reputation, is improving with better standards in the community and a police crackdown on the overflowing drug wars and usage.

The streets of Bellsmyre are a mixture of occasionally well kept houses, graffitied decaying property and boarded up local authority housing. Certain areas are simply waste ground where blocks of roads are still there, but no homes exist-they having been long since demolished due to urban decay.

Many of Bellsmyre's council houses have improved over the years. As a result, it is currently being regenerated, with around 66 private houses being built, and the high flats at the top of the hill reportedly being demolished, although it has not been announced what is being built in their place.

Located in the northeast of Dumbarton, it was built as a municipal housing scheme and a few of its residents were brought there from the city of Glasgow as part of the "overspill" programme of moving people from slum areas of the city to new towns and other areas outwith the city boundaries.