COTTONRAKE Bakery has applied to open a cafe in an empty Glasgow West End shop. The eatery is proposed for 717 Great Western Road, near the junction with Byres Road. Drawings submitted to city planners show the cafe would have seating for around 40. Opening hours...
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PLAN To Turn Former City Toilets Into ‘Distinctive’ Short-Stay Holiday Home
DISUSED toilets in Cathedral Square, Glasgow could be turned into self-catering tourist accommodation. City officials are being asked to approve a change-of-use application for the building. A statement submitted to planners explains: "The Cathedral Square former...
KEBAB Chain Get Permission For Restaurant In Former City Bank
PART of an empty bank in Glasgow City Centre looks set to be turned into a German Doner Kebab restaurant. The proposal by the company was approved by councillors on Glasgow's planning applications committee despite 17 objections. The 63-seat eatery will be on the...
APARTMENTS Conversion Above City Centre Restaurants Gets Go-Ahead
PLANNERS have agreed that empty offices above two Glasgow City Centre restaurants can be turned into flats. Five apartments can be created on the upper floors at 20 Bath Street, council officials decided. The ground floor contains Yiamas Greek restaurant and Bath...
FORTY-Four Homes Proposed For Old School Site Beside East End Park
REVISED plans have been drawn up for housing on former school land in Glasgow’s East End. Shettleston Housing Association has applied to build 44 houses and flats at the old St Mark’s Primary site in Muiryfauld Drive at Edenwood Street, beside the north end of...
PLANNERS Have No Appetite For West End Cafe Bid
CITY officials have rejected a plan to turn a convenience store in Glasgow’s West End into a cafe. An eatery was proposed for Rajou’s Newsagent on the ground floor of a C-listed tenement at 22 Gibson Street. Drawings showed space for 40 diners at basement level, 25 at...
FORMER Bar Is In Shape For Gym Conversion
PERMISSION has been given for a fitness facility to open at empty pub premises in Glasgow City Centre. Ludo’s Primal Wellness has received the go-ahead to fit out ground floor and basement space at 4A West Regent Street as a gym. The core clientele will be corporate...
PLAN To Replace Vacant Pub With Serviced Apartments
DEVELOPERS want to demolish an empty Glasgow City Centre pub and build 18 serviced apartments in its place. Big Top Productions have applied to knock down the old Annie Millers bar on the corner of Ropework Lane and Metropole Lane. A six-storey building is proposed...
‘CALTON Village’ Major Housing Application Made To City Council
PLANNERS are being asked to approve 250 flats and houses for a site in Calton. The Wheatley Group has submitted a planning application for development on vacant ground next to Gallowgate, at Melbourne Street, Armour Street and Sydney Street. The Calton Village...
GO-Ahead Given For Glasgow’s First Sofology Outlet
PERMISSION has been given by Glasgow City Council planners for a large retail unit to be used by living room furniture retailer Sofology. The development at at 2239 London Road will involve demolition of five buildings with the 1,486-square-metre Sofology store then...
