£200mplantobring700 new homes to city centre
A £200MILLION plan to revamp Glasgow’s High Street with a new residential neighbourhood offering more than 700 homes has been submitted to Glasgow City Council.
Under the proposals, the 7.5acre residential neighbourhood will have 727 new build-to-rent homes on a site behind High Street rail station.
The application proposes a new public square, as well as 99 student studios, and retail, leisure, food, drink and commercial business space.
For the first time, the area will be opened up through new tree-lined access routes, connecting the Merchant City through High Street and into the East End.
The area was the original location of Glasgow University, the Hunterian Museum and later became the goods yard of the City of Glasgow Union Railway Company.
The site, however, has lain empty and derelict for many years other than a small section currently used as a car park,
The bold new vision to bring the site back to life has been put together by Get Living, the UK’s leading large scale residential investor and owner-operator of the former London 2012 Athletes’ Village, now known as East Village. The multi-million pound investment in Glasgow is the company’s first venture outside of London.
Following public consultations with the local community, the outline planning consent granted to the previous site owner has been reconfigured to create a truly residential-led and green neighbourhood, including new public amenities and access routes.
Glasgow-based architects Stallan-Brand, who have worked on major development projects in the cit y including the 2014 Commonwealth Games Athletes’ Village and Tron Theatre, drew up the plans alongside internationally-renowned urban landscape designers Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP) to create inspiring and sustainable public areas through the site.
Rick de Blaby, executive deputy chairman at Get Living, said: “Our £200m proposal is a significant investment for Get Living and commits us fully to the longterm growth and success of Glasgow.
“Our role will see us working alongside the Council and its own ambitious plans for the city, along- side businesses that need to recruit and retain staff and most importantly for the people of Glasgow to deliver great homes set within new public spaces.
“We have listened carefully to local people, then worked very hard to create t hese ambitious plans for a new green neighbourhood in the heart of the city.
“This is a historic site and we are keen to see it become a thriving part of Glasgow’s future.”
Get Living CEO, Neil Young, added: “We believe this new neighbourhood at High Street will be an ideal fit for this part of the city and bring what is currently an invisible site back to life.”
Subject to planning consent being granted, work on site would start in late 2018.