Bishopton is a village in Renfrewshire, Scotland. It lies around 2 miles (3.2 kilometres) west of Erskine. In 2005, BAE Systems and also Redrow submitted propositions to use a huge part of the site for building brand-new real estate which would certainly, a minimum of, double the size of Bishopton. Local residents indicated their concern at the proposals; the major problems they had were with the size of the expansion-- with the linked knock-on effects to the regional facilities-- and anxieties of the contamination that was most likely to be found on the site. In December 2008 Renfrewshire Council granted overview planning approval for the growth as well as thorough planning permission for an associated motorway junction off the A8/M8. By early 2016, adhering to substantial purification job, a substantial section of the advancement had been finished, with a variety of your houses (the total variety of residences having climbed from 2,500 in 2008 to 4,000 in 2019, including multiple housebuilder) built as well as inhabited along with some shopping facilities. However, a brand-new primary school which was originally accepted in 2009 had actually still not been completed a decade on and also was reassessed to be built in 2021 with fresh problems over the suggested catchment zone possibly resulting in division in between the old and also new areas in the location, and that the school would merely be as well tiny to cope with the continuous increase of youngsters, with the majority of the Dargavel housing being marketed for young family members to move there.