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Abstract: The British Geological Survey (BGS) is working with Glasgow City Council and other partners to obtain, integrate and supply a wide range of digital geodata relevant to development and planning. The issues include hazard mitigation and land use in a sustainable development context, flooding and sea-level change and land and water contamination. Glasgow is situated on and around the lower River Clyde floodplain and upper estuary and has a substantial legacy from former heavy industry and mining, mainly for coal and ironstone, and has areas prioritised for development and regeneration. The initial stage of the work involved gathering, exchanging, scanning, digitising and storing borehole, map and mining data into corporate BGS databases. Subsequently, revised geological 2D maps and 3D models of the complex superficial deposits succession and faulted, mined bedrock formed a basic framework for derived products. Drift thickness and rockhead maps, and synthetic boreholes and cross-sections can be extracted from these models. Estuarine, tributaries and urban soils geochemical data, physical properties data (geotechnical) and hydrogeological data have been integrated with the geological framework models to help answer the geoenvironmental questions. Outputs can be provided in GIS format or in a 3D model viewer. They provide valuable input for development and planning in an area endeavouring to capture inward investment to stimulate regeneration and redevelopment