PLANNERS have agreed that flats can be built on a gap site in Govanhill, 14 years after it was turned into a ‘temporary’ community garden.
Glasgow City Council officials have approved a five-storey block containing 16 flats for land at 85 Westmoreland Street, the site of the old Hampden Picture House.
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Fourteen of the flats will have two bedrooms and two of them will be four-bedroom maisonettes.
There will be a communal landscaped area provided at first floor level.
The site was turned into Westmoreland Gardens — a ‘temporary greenspace’ — in 2010 under Glasgow City Council’s Stalled Spaces initiative because it was being used for fly-tipping and other anti-social behaviour.
At the time it was expected that it would be three to five years before any development took place on the privately-owned land making the £41,000 project cost viable.
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