Bishopton is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It is located around 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) west of Erskine. In 2005, BAE Systems and also Redrow submitted propositions to use a large part of the site for developing new housing which would, at least, double the dimension of Bishopton. Local residents showed their issue at the propositions; the significant worries they had were with the dimension of the growth-- with the connected ripple effects to the local facilities-- and anxieties of the contamination that was most likely to be found on the site. In December 2008 Renfrewshire Council granted rundown planning permission for the growth and thorough preparation authorization for a relevant motorway junction off the A8/M8. By very early 2016, following extensive decontamination job, a substantial portion of the advancement had been finished, with a variety of the houses (the total number of residences having actually risen from 2,500 in 2008 to 4,000 in 2019, involving multiple housebuilder) developed and lived in in addition to some buying facilities. Nonetheless, a new primary school which was originally authorized in 2009 had still not been finished a decade on as well as was reassessed to be built in 2021 with fresh problems over the proposed catchment zone possibly causing division in between the old and brand-new neighborhoods in the area, which the college would just be too tiny to handle the continuous influx of kids, with the majority of the Dargavel housing being marketed for young households to move there.