Councillors refuse permission for flats
GLASGOW planning bosses have refused an application to develop new flats along the Forth and Clyde Canal despite recommendations by council officers to approve it.
Members of the Glasgow City Council planning committee denied permission for the 182 apartments on the abandoned land between Farnell Street and Sawmillfield Street by 11 votes to four yesterday morning.
Hoxton Securities (Glasgow) had submitted a planning application to create a buildto-rent development for 182 flats over 20 storeys with one commercial unit facing Farnell Street.
But councillors did not believe this was the right development for the site.
Councillor Josephine Docherty said: “On the screen this development looks wonderful and acceptable. But in my heart I feel we are rebuilding something Glasgow rejected decades ago.
“The high density worries me, and I think it it’s going to be a concrete jungle – it’s the sort of thing we got rid of in the old days in the Glasgow Gorbals.”
RESCUE workers are searching for at least five people missing after a boat capsized on a lake near Alexandria, Egypt.
Nine people, including three children, are already known to be dead, ambulance officials said.
The boat was carrying at least 19 people and capsized late on Monday in the Lake of Mariut, while returning from an entertainment voyage.
Officials said rescue workers retrieved at least nine bodies, including two children aged one and four, and were searching for others, while five had been rescued.