A CLOSING date has been set for developers to come forward with plans for a prominent Merchant City site. Glasgow City Council’s subsidiary company City Property wants bids for interest in the land at Ingram Street submitted by 28 August. The site, between Candleriggs...
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£3.5MILLION To Be Spent On Devising Strategies To Transform Transport In Glasgow
MAJOR strategies into the future of transport in Glasgow -- prioritising active travel and public transit -- are to be drawn up over the next 12 months at a cost of £3.5million. Glasgow City Council has been awarded £3million from active travel organisation Sustrans...
RESTAURANT Plan For City Centre Hairdressers
PERMISSION is being sought to turn a hairdressing salon in Glasgow City Centre into a restaurant. The plans are for a two-level eatery at 96 St Vincent Street in premises currently occupied by Toni & Guy. Drawings show seating for around 50 on the ground floor and...
DEVELOPER Tries Again To Get Planners On Board With New Neighbourhood At Bus Depot Site
ANOTHER attempt is being made to get the go-ahead for a major housing development at a former bus depot in Glasgow's East End. AS Homes (Scotland) had applied to build 139 house and flats at 252 Tollcross Road, near Parkhead Cross. Ninety-seven houses and 42 flats are...
EARLY Learning Facility Proposed Next To East End Park’s Winter Gardens
GLASGOW planners are being asked to approve development of a pre-five centre in one of the city's parks. The council facility, for up to 87 two to five-year-olds, would be built beside the winter gardens in Tollcross Park. The disused Millennium visitor centre would...
MILES Of City Centre Road Space To Become People-Friendly — Including One-Third Of Street Parking Bays
A WIDE-ranging physical distancing plan for Glasgow City Centre has been approved including cutting on-street parking spaces by a third and bringing forward George Square pedestrianisation. Around 25 kilometres of road space will be used to provide wider footways to...
RESIDENTIAL Use For Vacant NHS Headquarter Gets Go-Ahead
A PLAN to convert a prominent empty office building in central Glasgow into flats has been approved. Permission has been given for Dalian House, the former NHS Glasgow headquarters at Charing Cross to be turned into 67 apartments. There will be 24 one-bedroom units,...
DEVELOPER Submits 14-Storey Broomielaw Office Development Designs
DETAILED designs for a 200,000 sq ft office block near the Broomielaw in Glasgow have been submitted to city planners for approval. Planning permission in principle has already been granted for offices at the site between Brown Street and Carrick Street. A public...
IN Pictures — Cruise Ship Arrives In Glasgow To Wait Out Pandemic
THE first of three cruise ships which are to berth in Glasgow while operators wait for the holiday industry to re-start arrived in the city today. Luxury vessel Azamara Pursuit is now laid up at Peel Ports facility King George V Dock, Shieldhall, near Braehead, having...
MILES Of City Centre Parking Lanes Set To Be Switched To Walking And Cycling Under Covid-19 Plan
GLASGOW City Council is planning to give 25 kilometres of city centre road space to pedestrians and cyclists as part of pandemic physical distancing measures. The proposal affects nearly every city centre street and is one of a number outlined in a report updating...
