Modern townhouses offer family flexibility

Townhouses are perfect for buyers who want to enjoy a trendy urban dwelling without having to compromise on square footage.

When searching for a new home, buyers will tend to look for somewhere with enough space and flexibility to grow with their family’s needs – something the townhouse can be ideally suited to.

While townhouses were a staple in the architecture of the Victorian and Georgian eras, in order to ensure energy efficiency and low maintenance costs, a newbuild take on the classic townhouse design is an increasingly sensible choice.

Spanning three or four floors, townhouses can offer sprawling family areas, big living kitchens on the ground floor with access to the outside space, large bedrooms and handy little snug areas for everyone in a growing family to find their space.

The current release at The Botanics, the luxury development from David Wilson Homes, features 19 four-bedroomed townhouses in Glasgow’s West End on the doorstep of the stunning Botanic Gardens.

The Botanics occupies the grounds of the former BBC Scotland headquarters,