A £35MILLION contract for has been awarded to BAM Construction to build Scotland's biggest health centre, at Parkhead. North East Health Centre on Salamanca Street will be delivered on behalf of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Glasgow Health and Social Care...
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TENNIS Club Hopes To Hit An Ace With New Clubhouse Plan
RUTHERGLEN Lawn Tennis Club has unveiled plans for a new clubhouse to cater for its growing membership. It has applied to build a replacement, two-level facility at its courts at Viewpark Drive. Membership of the club is up from 100 to 330 in just seven years, but...
GAELIC Education Expansion Could See Disused B-Listed Calton School Building Re-Opened
A £16.5MILLION plan has been drawn up to turn a historic former school building in Glasgow's East End into the city's fourth Gaelic primary. City council officials are proposing the old St James’ Primary School in Green Street for the expansion of Gaelic medium...
IN Pictures — City Centre Buildings Cleared For JPMorgan Chase Development
CLEARANCE of the site for JPMorgan Chase's 13-storey office block is well underway. Two buildings on the corner of Argyle Street and Robertson Street have been largely demolished already, with the B-listed former What Everyone Want premises next to go. The corner of...
INDOOR Play Village In Calton Gets Approved
PLANNERS have agreed that warehouse premises in Calton can be transformed into an indoor children’s play village with cafe. Glasgow City Council officials approved a planning application submitted for an “imaginative, educational role-play centre” at 25 McFarlane...
RESTAURANT Operator Six By Nico Wants To Add To Dennistoun’s ‘Bohemian Buzz’
SIX By Nico Holdings Ltd have applied to open a restaurant in an empty Glasgow East End laundrette. Documents submitted to the planning department state the premises at Whitehill Street, Dennistoun -- to be known as Grub -- would become a “casual, neighbourhood dining...
PERMISSION Given For Nearly 50 Flats On Former Govanhill Garage Site
A CAR-free residential development at the site of a former garage on Glasgow’s South Side has been approved by councillors. Forty-nine flats — a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom properties — can be built at the ex-Arnold Clark premises in Allison Street at...
GO-Ahead Given For Flats Block Beside Glasgow Park
COUNCILLORS have agreed that 36 flats can be built beside Alexandra Park in Haghill. Glasgow’s planning application’s committee approved the development after hearing that parking had been increased following a request for this aspect of the plan to be looked at. The...
ACTIVISTS Get Ball Rolling On Sports And Leisure Bid For Bowling Club Site
PLANS to turn a Glasgow South Side bowling club into a community sports and leisure facility with garden have been submitted to the City Council. Local campaigners want to put an all-weather tennis court and play and fitness area on one of the greens at Mount Florida...
COMMUNITY Pantry Plan For Derelict East End Drill Hall
A FORMER drill hall in Parkhead looks set to be turned into a community pantry. Permission is being sought to turn the building at the former Parkhead Public School in Westmuir Street into a shop. Owner Parkhead Housing Association -- which converted the school into...
