Whitehill, Hamilton, Scotland

Whitehill was originally a council-built district of Hamilton, Scotland. It is situated in the northern area of Hamilton and is bounded by Blantyre to the west and Burnbank to the south. Whitehill contains three primary schools - Beckford Primary School, Craighead High School and St Paul's Primary School.

Whitehill has changed a lot in the last three years. Both the local park, library and sports barn were pulled down along with a lot of houses to make way for better houses and a new community centre along with a retirement/care home. The Whistlebury area of Whitehill was pulled down to make way for new housing. Most people were relocated to other estates in Hamilton or to other areas in Whitehill.

Once considered a "bad" area, it has lost this reputation with the recent redevelopments - it has had a lot of houses built in it to improve the area, with over two hundred house demolished and re-built. Other recent developments in the area include the building of a large supermarket on the site of the old brickwork factory; the newly re-built Hamilton Academicals football stadium; and the very recent building of the new Holy Cross High School in the grounds of the Bothwell Road Park, which replaced the old Holy Cross High School in the towns' Muir Street.

The Bothwell Road Park also houses a brand new state-of-the-art centre for the care of people with Dementia; named after two local Councillors, the Newberry-Rooney Centre comprises day care facilities, a well-equipped technology suite, meeting rooms, and gardens - all of which have been built on the principles of "dementia friendly design" in partnership with the Dementia Services Development Centre at Stirling University, a world-leading resource in the care of people with dementia.