St Leonards is an area of the Scottish new town East Kilbride, in South Lanarkshire.
St Leonards is a residential area on the east side of the town. The majority of the area's streets are named after Glens, Islands and Lochs from Scotland, for instance: Loch Shin, Loch Assynt, Glen Carron, Glen Tanner, Benbecula, Skye. St Leonards is well-known for its "red brick" houses in the Calderglen area, which can be seen from St Leonards Road approaching High Common Road. The Calderglen area itself is one of East Kilbride's most sought-after locales. The area of St. Leonards also contains the John Wrights Sports Centre which is home of the Whitemoss A.A.C and East Kilbride Athletics Club. The area is also home to Calderglen Country Park and Claremont Parish Church, which is a vibrant Church, a Church of Scotland congregation, which celebrated its 40th Anniversary in 2008.
Calderglen High School, which opened its new building on 18th February 2008, was formed from the merger of the existing Claremont and Hunter High Schools. The School was recently opened by Adam Ingram. The school was due for completion in August 2007 but this was delayed, causing the pupils to be housed in the existing Claremont High building. This area also contains St Leonards Primary School (built in 1963), Blacklaw Primary School (Opened on May 27th, 1969 but recently redeveloped), Mount Cameron Primary School - the sole Scottish Gaelic speaking school in East Kilbride at present (redevelopment complete), and St. Hillary's Primary School (redevelopment complete).
The council has been redeveloping the blocks of flats into more attractive, modern looking ones with a new exterior. These are Clyde Tower (the highest tower in East Kilbride at 56m), Calder Tower and White Cart Tower.
Currently, the area has a small shopping centre and a set of small rental units which include a supermarket, pharmacy, post office, petrol station, bookmaker, pub, fish and chip shop, library, hairdresser and a dentist. This is due to be redeveloped shortly with the goal of providing a more modern look. Two of the units in the square have already changed ownership prior to the redevelopment: a jewellery shop and a joiner. This has caused some controversy
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