PLANS have been revealed for a new 14-storey, four-star hotel in Glasgow City Centre. The 252-bed development on St Vincent Street at Pitt Street is being lined up as the first UK hotel for Austrian operator Vienna House. A vacant office block will be demolished to...
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HOW To Silence The M8 ‘Traffic Machine’ Is Revved Up In Latest City Centre District Strategy
A BLUEPRINT for the next decade of development in the Blythswood section of Glasgow City Centre sets out various measures for lessening the impact of the M8 motorway, as well as opening up Blythswood Square as a park. The draft district regeneration framework (DRF) is...
PRE-Five Centre Plan For Former Bellahouston Curry House
PLANNERS are being asked to allow a former restaurant at Bellahouston be turned into a nursery. Nursery in the Park Ltd want to use the former Village in the Park curry house at 1005 Paisley Road West as a pre-five centre. The building, which has a play area in its...
MULTI-Million Pound Sustainable Transport Blueprint For Pollok Country Park
PLANS have been drawn up for a £5.4million active travel overhaul of Glasgow's largest park. The proposals for Pollok Country Park will promote walking, cycling, bus and train travel and are to be delivered in time for the re-opening of the Burrell Collection in 2021....
POLLOKSHIELD Flats Conversion Plan Is Withdrawn
A PLAN to turn a former school building on Glasgow’s South Side into flats has been withdrawn. Seven flats were proposed for two semi-detached villas at 2 Hamilton Avenue, Pollokshields, which were part of the Craigholme campus. The apartments were to be created over...
MAJOR Residential Development Proposed For Land At Braehead
BELLWAY Homes have applied to build nearly 250 houses and flats on a brownfield site beside the Clyde at Braehead. The development is proposed for land between the Soar Intu leisure complex and Clyde View Park, at King's Inch Road, Renfrew. There would be 142 houses...
HUGE Distribution And Storage Building Agreed For M8 Site
PLANNERS have given the go-ahead for a massive distribution facility on the eastern side of Glasgow. Hermiston Securities have been given permission to develop the facility on 6.4 hectares to the north of Springhill Parkway at Glasgow Business Park, just south of the...
IN Pictures — Iconic Ex-College Tower’s Proposed Office Makeover
DEVELOPER Osborne and Co is marketing its proposed "reinvention" of one of Glasgow's landmark buildings. It plans to turn the B-listed former Glasgow Metropolitan College premises in North Hanover Street into grade-A office space accommodating up to 1,200 staff. A...
PLANNERS Asked To Approve New Neighbourhood On North Glasgow Green Belt
A MASSIVE housing development is being proposed for green belt land north of Summerston. Caledonian Properties want to create a "high quality" neighbourhood on “edge of settlement” fields south of the River Kelvin. An application has been submitted to Glasgow City...
£19MILLION M8 Footbridge Project Due For Completion In August 2021
WORK is due to start on the new pedestrian and cycle bridge over the M8 at Sighthill in March. Councillors are due to award the £19million contract next week to BAM Nuttall Ltd. Construction is expected to take more than 70 weeks, with completion due in August 2021....
