Greenhills, East Kilbride

Greenhills is an area within the Scottish new town of East Kilbride, South Lanarkshire in Greater Glasgow.

Greenhills is pre-designed residential neighbourhood in the south western area of East Kilbride new town. It takes its name from the former farm of Greenhills which formerly occupied the eastern part of the area developed as the neighbourhood. Most of the area forming the present Greenhills comprises the ancient small estate of Lickprivick, which Greenhills farm was never a part of. This neighbourhood represents part of the Southern Development Area of the New Town of East Kilbride, which later incorporated an annexe called Whitehills (never a distinct neighbourhood). The primary motivation to create the area relied on intense pressure in the late-1960s to accommodate a significantly higher level of Glasgow-region overspill.

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