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South Lanarkshire
Who to call and where to check in South Lanarkshire when the power goes off, rivers rise or a storm is coming: official links and figures, each with its source.
If someone’s life is in danger, call 999. For a power cut, call 105. This page lists official sources and figures. It does not say how safe or risky anywhere is.
At a glance
- Type
- Scottish council area
- ONS code
- S12000029
- Area
- 1,774 km²
- Fire and rescue
- Scottish Fire and Rescue Service
- Police
- Police Scotland
- Emergency planning partnership
- West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership
- Largest built-up areas
- East Kilbride, Hamilton, Cambuslang and Blantyre
Council emergency pages
- Council website southlanarkshire.gov.uk
- Current emergencies and severe weather Same page as above.
Councils announce rest centres, road closures and emergency help on these pages and their social media. Find your council by postcode (GOV.UK).
Power cuts
Report a power cut or check one: call 105 free from any phone, or use the operator’s website.
Network operator (not your supplier):
- SP Energy Networks (South and Central Scotland)
Ofgem’s figures for the whole licence area, April 2024 to March 2025, counting cuts of 3 minutes or longer:
- South and Central Scotland (SP Energy Networks): 31.3 interruptions per 100 customers and 25.8 minutes without power per customer (2023/24: 32.9 and 26.2)
Great Britain as a whole: 39.7 and 35.1. These are area averages, not figures for South Lanarkshire alone. About this dataset
Flooding
SEPA (Scottish Environment Protection Agency): 1 flood alert areas and 8 flood warning areas overlap South Lanarkshire. Flood sources SEPA gives for them: fluvial.
Warning areas include: Cambuslang Road and Morriston Park; Carmyle; Crossford; Dalbeth; Dalmarnock Bridge; Dalserf; Hamilton Services; Rosebank.
Weather warnings
The Met Office issues yellow, amber and red warnings for rain, wind, snow, ice, fog, thunderstorms and extreme heat. Current Met Office warnings (choose Scotland on the map) · What the colours mean
Health: NHS help and the nearest A&E
For urgent care when your GP practice is closed, call 111 (NHS 24). NHS inform · Scotland’s Service Directory (find local NHS services)
The nearest type 1 (major) A&E departments to the centre of each of the largest built-up areas, by straight-line distance (as the crow flies, not by road):
- East Kilbride: University Hospital Hairmyres (1.6 km); Glasgow Royal Infirmary (12.1 km); Royal Hospital for Children Glasgow (14.7 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: New Victoria Hospital (9.0 km); New Stobhill Hospital (15.2 km).
- Hamilton: University Hospital Wishaw (7.4 km); University Hospital Hairmyres (10.2 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: New Victoria Hospital (14.4 km); New Stobhill Hospital (16.9 km).
- Cambuslang: Glasgow Royal Infirmary (6.6 km); University Hospital Hairmyres (6.9 km). Nearest minor injury or other units: New Victoria Hospital (5.8 km); New Stobhill Hospital (9.0 km).
Never Caught Out is not affiliated with the NHS.
Water supply
Water company for this area:
- Scottish Water · Latest in your area
Scottish Water’s 24-hour customer helpline: 0800 0778 778.
To report no water, low pressure or a burst main, use the company’s page above. Your water bill names your supplier.
Local risks and emergency planning
- Flooding: 8 flood warning areas and 1 flood alert area overlap the council area (details above).
- West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership publishes a community risk register: the official list of emergencies that planners prepare for here.
- Hazards the register names include (our grouping of its wording): Flooding; Cyber attacks; Pandemic; Storms and severe weather; Power cuts; Snow and low temperatures; Loss of water supply; Telecoms failure; Industrial and chemical accidents; Animal disease; Building collapse. Open the register for how likely and how serious each one is judged to be.
- Sandbags and flood help: Report flooding and get help - Flooding advice and support - South Lanarkshire Council (the council’s own page; councils differ on whether they supply sandbags, so check what it says).
We list only what official sources say. We do not rate how safe or risky anywhere is.
Map
Phone and broadband coverage
Ofcom’s predictions of normal coverage in South Lanarkshire, January 2026. They are not live outages and not a guarantee for any address.
- Homes and businesses with 4G indoors from all four networks: 95%; from none: 0.2%.
- Outside homes and businesses, 4G from all four networks: 100%; from none: less than 0.1%.
- Land area with outdoor 4G from all four networks: 84%; from none: 2.5%.
- Premises that can get gigabit-capable broadband: 89%.
- Premises that cannot get decent broadband (10 Mbit/s down, 1 Mbit/s up) from a fixed line or fixed wireless: 59 (0%).
Check an address on Ofcom’s coverage checker · Phones when the network is down: how to reach 999 · About this dataset
Local radio
This is the BBC station for the county or area, from the BBC Sounds station list. Coverage overlaps council boundaries, so tune to whichever station you receive.
Census 2022: planning prompts
- Households with no car or van: 23.0%
- Residents aged 65 or over: 20.2%
- Households of one person aged 66 or over: 14.2%
Who would fetch food or medicines for you or a neighbour on icy or flooded roads, and who would you check on in a power cut? Ask your pharmacist about repeat prescriptions before bad weather.
Largest built-up areas
- East Kilbride
- Hamilton
SEPA warning areas naming Hamilton: Hamilton Services.
- Cambuslang
SEPA warning areas naming Cambuslang: Cambuslang Road and Morriston Park.
- Blantyre
Other built-up areas include Larkhall, Carluke, Rutherglen, Lanark, Strathaven and Bothwell.
Neighbouring councils
Dumfries and Galloway, East Ayrshire, East Renfrewshire, Scottish Borders, West Lothian, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire
Guides for any emergency
- Power cut: call 105 free. Priority Services Register · Compensation calculator
- Power cuts
- First hour of a power cut
- Flooding
- Flood alerts and warnings
- Storms
- Cold weather
- Grab bag and evacuation
- Emergency Alerts
- A battery or wind-up radio keeps working in a power cut.
- All council pages in Scotland · All UK council pages
How these figures were gathered
- Council links come from GOV.UK Local Links Manager, the list councils keep for GOV.UK. We opened each one on 2 November 2026; links that no longer worked are left out, and a few council sites blocked our automated check, which is noted beside the link.
- Area is our measurement of the ONS generalised (clipped to the coastline) boundary, so it can differ slightly from official area figures.
- A flood area counts as overlapping if at least 1% of it lies inside the council boundary.
- A&E distances are straight lines from the centre point ONS gives for each built-up area to the centre of the hospital’s postcode. Travel distances and times will be longer.
- Phone and broadband figures are Ofcom’s council-level predictions for January 2026. Mobile coverage uses Ofcom’s signal thresholds; an operator’s network counts if its predicted signal meets them.
- The hazard list is our grouping of the words the register uses: we list a hazard when its terms appear at least twice in the register’s text. It is not a rating of risk, and the register may cover more.
- Census figures are planning prompts, not risk scores. The household figure uses 66 and over, as the census tables do.
- Scotland’s Census 2022 figures are our sums of National Records of Scotland output-area tables UV405, UV101b and UV113, so they may differ slightly from NRS council totals.
- Built-up areas are the largest by land area from ONS Built-up Areas 2022. Flood areas listed under a town are those whose official name includes it; a missing area does not mean a street will not flood.
Official sources we used
- Find your local council (GOV.UK; council links from GOV.UK Local Links Manager) (GOV.UK)
- Map data and tiles (Open Database Licence) (OpenStreetMap contributors)
- Local authority district boundaries and codes (ONS Open Geography Portal)
- RIIO-2 Electricity Distribution annual report 2024 to 2025: supplementary data file (Open Government Licence) (Ofgem)
- 105: the power cut helpline (Energy Networks Association)
- SP Energy Networks: power cuts (SP Energy Networks)
- Find my network operator (licence area boundaries) (Energy Networks Association)
- Flood Warning Areas and Flood Alert Areas (© SEPA 2024, Open Government Licence 3.0) (SEPA)
- Flooding (SEPA)
- UK weather warnings (Met Office)
- List of A&E type 1 departments (April 2026) (NHS England)
- NHS Scotland accident and emergency sites (Open Government Licence) (Public Health Scotland)
- Postcode locations (OS OpenData licence; contains Ordnance Survey, Royal Mail and National Statistics data) (postcodes.io)
- NHS inform (NHS 24)
- Scotland’s Service Directory (NHS inform)
- Scottish Water: Latest in your area (Scottish Water)
- Contact us (24-hour helpline 0800 0778 778) (Scottish Water)
- Connected Nations update: Spring 2026, mobile and fixed coverage data (Open Government Licence) (Ofcom)
- Stations (local and nations radio) (BBC Sounds)
- BBC Radio Scotland: listen live (BBC Sounds)
- West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership: community risk register (West of Scotland Regional Resilience Partnership)
- Report flooding and get help - Flooding advice and support - South Lanarkshire Council (South Lanarkshire council)
- Civil emergency whole-system preparedness 2025 report (Scottish Government)
- Scotland’s Census 2022: output area data (UV405, UV101b, UV113) (National Records of Scotland)
- Census 2022 output area centroids with council codes (National Records of Scotland)
- Built-up Areas (December 2022) GB boundaries (ONS Open Geography Portal)