Coalburn group seeks long-term lease to revive former pavilion

A community asset transfer request has been recorded for a 25-year lease of the former changing pavilion beside Coalburn Leisure Centre on School Road.\n\nSouth Lanarkshire's record, reference CAT/26/0003, is accompanied by a seven-page business plan naming the Coalburn Gala Day Committee as applicant and the Coalburn Pavilion as the target asset.\n\nThe plan says the committee wants to restore and manage the building as a central base for storage, administration and events. It describes the pavilion as operationally unsafe and unusable for public activity without capital works, and proposes phased structural and safety checks, repairs, fit-out and a reopening as a Coalburn Gala Hub.\n\nThe proposed use goes beyond the annual gala. The plan sets out low-cost community activities and, in the longer term, a venue for independent third-party or volunteer-led support sessions. Those are the committee's proposals, not services or commitments confirmed by South Lanarkshire Council.\n\nThe available evidence establishes a request and an applicant business plan. It does not establish that a 25-year lease or asset transfer has been agreed, that funding is secured, or that the restoration will proceed. The council's assessment and any decision remain unresolved in the current capture.