A GLASGOW restaurant wants to open a deli/cafe in empty shop premises at a prominent City Centre corner site. Esca hope to open the outlet at 31 Trongate, which has been vacant for seven years and is a short distance from their current premises in Chisholm Street. A...
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LARGER McDonald’s Drive-Thru Plan For Asda, Toryglen Gets Go-Ahead
CITY planners have approved revised plans for a 24-hour drive-thru McDonald's restaurant at Toryglen. The company already had permission for single-storey outlet with 107 seats at Asda on Prospecthill Road but have now been given permission for a two-storey building...
OLD Pub Could Be Turned Into Islamic Education And Community Centre
PLANNERS are being asked to agree that an empty pub in Scotstoun can be used as a religious education establishment and community hall. Islamic Centre Scotstoun have made a change-of-use application for the old Rendezvous premises in Burnham Road, near Dumbarton Road....
CLYDE Gateway Move Purifier Studio Application Gets Go-Ahead
DESIGNS for the redevelopment of unique historic premises in Dalmarnock have been approved by city planners. Regeneration initiative Clyde Gateway has been given permission to convert the former gas purifier shed and adjoining meter house at Poplin Street into five...
EVENTS Venue Approved For Land Beside Celtic Park
A PURPOSE-built events venue with space for 700 people has been approved for a site near Celtic Park. Glasgow City planners have agreed that the two-storey building can be developed on vacant land next to 1257 London Road, including part of Dalriada Street. Documents...
CONTRACTOR Chosen For £8.2Million Glasgow Community Custody Complex
THE Scottish Prison Service has awarded an £8.2million contract for construction of Glasgow's new community custody unit for female offenders. The work will be carried out by Ogilvie Construction of Stirling. The unit will be in Shawpark Street, behind Maryhill police...
DEVELOPER Looks To Progress Student Accommodation Block Next To High Court
A STUDENT accommodation development on a gap site beside the High Court in Glasgow is set to go ahead. Planning permission was given three years ago for a facility containing 169 bedrooms at Jocelyn Square, Bridgegate, St Margaret's Place and Mart Street. The previous...
ICONIC Glasgow Department Store Planning Food And Drink Area
GLASGOW department store Frasers wants to use around 1,700 square metres of its fourth floor for food and drink areas. The space would be accessed via the shop during retail opening hours but would also be open outwith the store trading times. Frasers have applied for...
LISTED Building Would Be Knocked Down To Make Way For Canalside Flats
PLANS are being drawn up for a housing development beside the Forth and Clyde Canal at Anniesland. The site at Bearsden Road contains a C-listed building that was the offices for Temple Sawmill and later the Canal Bar and Restaurant. It has lain vacant for 16 years....
LIFT-Off Awaited For Inflatable Rocket At Listed Building Play Centre
OPERATORS of a massive new family play complex on Glasgow's South Side want to tie an 11-foot inflatable rocket to a chimney at the B-listed premises. Spectrum Properties (Scotland) Ltd are converting the former Glasgow Council printing works beside the M74 at 197...