Planning plea over green site
Gardeners want to know developer’s ideas for ‘Meadow’
PLANS for a controversial housing development on a Glasgow green space have still not been made publicly available despite being lodged with council of ficials almost four months ago.
New City Vision, the firm behind a proposed housing development on disused playing fields in the West End of the city, announced it had submitted a planning application to Glasgow City Council on May 8.
As previously reported in the Evening Times, the firm wants to build 90 townhouses, mews homes and flats on the site between Clouston Street, Sanda Street and Kelbourne Street.
The land, which is owned by Glasgow City Council, was originally earmarked for construction work in 2008.
Since then, the area, dubbed North Kelvin Meadow by locals, has been transformed by a team of community gardeners, who have installed flower beds, planted trees and turned an old changing room, previ- ously used as a drug den, into a garden shed.
The gardeners, who founded the Save The North Kelvin Meadow action group, are fighting to keep the green space, which is used by several local nurseries and schools, and have raised a petition which has attracted 1500 signatures.
Group chairman Douglas Peacock said: “We’ve been waiting about four years for a planning application to be submitted.
“We’ve been campaigning to keep the meadow since then.What we would really like is to have a discussion with the council about keeping the land; we don’t want any planning application.”
Harry O’Donnell, director of New City Vision, confirmed that an application was lodged with the council in May, but was delayed as the firm was asked to provide more detailed plans of the site.
Mr O’Donnell said: “The plans have not yet been validated as we were asked for other drawings.
“In parallel with that we had the full presentation of the planning application to the city’s Urban Design Panel.
“Sites that have some kind of civic importance are asked to present to the panel.
“It’s not mandatory but we decided to make a presentation and we were able to confirm the extra information the council asked for.
“We hope to have that confirmed in the next couple of weeks.”