Plan for offices at derelict site

Application to create business units

Ten offices could be built on a derelict site on Dalmarnock Road, if planners give the development the green light.

Conkir Developments Limited is seeking planning permission to renovate three existing buildings at 31a Dalmarnock Road and build a new block of five business units within the yard.

The real estate agent believes the units could be used as offices, for product research and development or for light industrial purposes.

It submitted a planning application to South Lanarkshire Council for the development earlier this month.

If approved it will see a small building attached to tenement flats on Dalmarnock Road transformed into three possible units – an office with a road-facing showroom on the ground floor and two small studios on the first floor. A second building, situated off the main road, will be renovated to create an office block, with a mezzanine level and meeting room.

The third warehouse and largest of the three buildings will include two units, each with a reception area, office, workshop and mezzanine stock room.

Finally, a new-build office block will include five units with office space both on the ground floor and mezzanine level.

Conkir states in the planning application: “The design intent of the proposed commercial development is to create a modern, visually unified office and light industrial business centre that – although based on a disparate collection of left over buildings and one new construction – will look like a vibrant and modern development once completed.

“To achieve this all the buildings are overclad in the same material – through coloured fibre cement cladding with grey brick plinths and boldly coloured detailing to give visual differentiation between units.”

The planning application for the units comes several years after planning permission was granted to build 18 flats in what was becoming an increasingly residential area.

But Conkir Developments believes it can manage the use of the buildings to ensure there is no adverse impact on local householders.

It said leases for industrial use would only be signed with companies who could prove their activities would not be to the detriment of the area – for example by way of noise, vibration, smell, fumes, smoke, soot, ash, dust or grit.

The development will be aimed at small scale office and smaller developing businesses, which typically operate between 9am and 5pm.

People can comment on the planning application up until the November 1 deadline, using reference number CR/16/0055.