In order to alleviate overcrowding and housing shortages in central Rutherglen, the town council identified and purchased the territory for a housing scheme. Construction took place over the late 1950s and 1960s, consisting of terraced and semi-detached houses as well as apartments and maisonettes in traditional tenement-style buildings and standalone flat-roofed blocks. A few years later, the construction of a Dual carriageway bypass road through central Rutherglen caused further housing issues there; road access to Fernhill to reach the new housing became easier, but the bypass intended to connect to the A749 dual carriageway to East Kilbride was not completed, with traffic having to use existing minor roads in the south of the town, including Fernhill Road.