A BUSINESS park which has yet to be built in a Glasgow suburb has sparked a rush of interest from bosses.

Several potential tenants are queuing up for details of the planned development which will create 3000 new jobs in Newton Mearns.

Property tycoon Ken Ross said: "More than 10 parties expressed an interest during the planning discussions and we are now involved in detailed talks with some of them.

"I can't disclose who these parties are due to commercial confidentiality but I can tell you that I'm really chuffed because we have not yet advertised this development which was first mooted 12 years ago."

Businesses in both the private and public sectors are interested in moving in to the park once the first phase has been built.

An initial 70,000sq ft of office accommodation will be available although the park will eventually comprise a total of 410,000sq ft in a 30-acre site.

Mr Ross is chairman and chief executive of Elphinstone Land which is building the park in partnership with the Royal Bank of Scotland.

The first offices could be occupied by the end of next year.

The Glasgow developer was behind the multi-million pound transformation of the old cigarette factory on Alexandra Parade, now City Park.

It's now a vibrant business hub for 3000 workers and tenants include the US computer giant Dell.

Mr Ross added: "I'm proud of what we've achieved at City Park and I'm confident we can repeat that success at Newton Mearns, even if it takes a few years."

The business park is part of a £200million masterplan for 119 acres of farm land in the Greenlaw area of Newton Mearns next to the busy M77.

The blueprint includes 400 homes for high earners and also low income workers as well as neighbourhood shops, a primary school and a doctor's surgery.

The consortium behind the project also plans a hotel as well as Park and Ride facilities at Patterton rail station, which borders the site. The entire construction programme will sustain 1000 jobs.

The work started this week with a ceremony performed by Councillor Alan Lafferty, environment convener of East Renfrewshire Council.

He said the masterplan represented a "new era of opportunity" for the area.