Maxwelton Court is the tallest residential building in Paisley. It is a 18 storey tower block located on Maxwellton Street in the Castlehead area of town. The project, containing 102 flats, was approved in 1965 in Stage II of phase 2 of the George Street redevelopment which became the George Street RDA. Construction was carried out by Lawrence using steel. While most tower blocks are built using concrete or brick, steel was uused to build several tower blocks in the UK atduring the mid-1960s to boost the UK's steel industry. Other notcable steel estates include Glasgow's Red Road.