PLANNERS are being asked to approve 24 flats on a gap site in Govanhill.

Govanhill Housing Association want permission for the development in Butterbiggins Road.

The flats, in a five-storey block, would be for social rent.

There would be nine three-bedroom units, 10 two-bedroom units and five with one bedroom.

Two normal car parking spaces are proposed plus two spaces allocated to ground floor wheelchair-accessible flats.

The site used to be occupied by the Lanarkshire Volunteer Artillery drill hall building, which was more recently  used as a warehouse before demolition.

It is between a C-listed Victorian tenement and the former Larkfield bus garage where 186 flats and houses are under construction.

The application is pending assessment by Glasgow City Council officials.