Qualla: Peel Park, East Kilbride

Peel Park, East Kilbride: Introduction

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Drive into Peel Park and the first thing you notice is the street names: Redwood Avenue, Redwood Drive, Redwood Crescent, Redwood Road, Redwood Place. There are not very many giant redwoods in Lanarkshire. The species - Sequoiadendron giganteum - is native to the western Sierra Nevada in California. But there are some at Peel Park, planted long ago, large enough that the planners of East Kilbride's western business district decided to name every street in the area after them. That detail - exotic American trees outliving every other choice about what to call these roads - is a small giveaway about what Peel Park really is. It is the working edge of Scotland's first New Town, where the practical engine of East Kilbride meets the road network that connects it to Glasgow and the south.

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Peel Park, East Kilbride: The Western Gateway

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Peel Park sits where the Glasgow Southern Orbital - the A726 dual carriageway that connects East Kilbride to the M77 motorway - enters the town. That single fact does most of the work in explaining why a business park ended up here. The Glasgow Southern Orbital is the artery that...

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Peel Park, East Kilbride: The Tenant List

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Peel Park's tenants form a snapshot of late-20th and early-21st-century Scottish industry. British Energy, once the operator of Scotland's nuclear power stations. Micron Technology, the American semiconductor manufacturer. Wipro, the Indian IT services giant. IBM. SEPA - the Scot...

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Peel Park, East Kilbride: The Redwoods and the New Town

Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The redwood street names are the most charming detail of Peel Park, but they are also a clue to its history. Giant sequoias were a Victorian gardening enthusiasm - wealthy estates across Britain planted them in the 19th century, importing seedlings from California to symbolise sc...

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