GLASGOW City Council has approved the disposal of land, a former childcare unit, and a car park to a developer and local housing associations to make way for the build of more than 80 new homes.
The local authority also confirmed that it has approved the beginning of negotiations with ‘multiple’ housing associations on the potential off-market disposal of 10 sites across the city – which together would deliver up to 250 new social homes.
Sites at 12 Carron Crescent and 96 Elmvale Street in Springburn, respectively 2.3 and 1.6-acres in size, and previously the site of the former St Aloysius Primary School and its annexe, were secured by Edzell Property Holdings for £242,000 for the build of 49 new homes in total – 28 being at 12 Carron Crescent and 21 at 96 Elmvale Street.
The second disposal is at the former Nitshill Childcare Unit at 31 Seamill Street, which comprises a purpose-built bungalow with nine bedrooms, a pitched tiled roof, adjoining garage, and garden to the front and rear of the property. The property will be disposed to Wheatley Homes for £325,000 and used as accommodation for vulnerable people, Glasgow City Council said.
The third disposal is the former carpark at 15 Spoutmouth, off the Gallowgate. The 0.49acre site was declared surplus to the council’s operational requirements in November 2023.
The site will be disposed to Wheatley Homes and developed to create 34 new social homes and two commercial retail units – the latter on the ground floor – and generate a receipt of £108,000 to the local authority.
The council also gave authority of the beginning of negotiations with housing associations (HA) on 10 sites at the following locations around Glasgow at Lochdochart Road/Twinlaw Street; Woodside Place/St George Road; Flat 0/1, 46 Melville Street- Southside HA; Flat 1/L, 58 Buccleuch Street; former janitor’s house, 1333 Dumbarton Road; site at Oran Gate; site at Abbotshall Avenue/Dunkenny Road/Drumry Road East; site at Queen Mary Street; Flat 1/2, 55 Walton Street; and former Shettleston Halls, Wellshot Road.
Councillor Ruairi Kelly, convener for neighbourhood services and assets at Glasgow City Council, said, “The supply of new homes is a very serious challenge in Glasgow and many other places, and meeting this requires new thinking and action. The approvals of these site disposals – and the beginning of negotiations on the possible disposal of 10 other sites in the city – paves the way for the creation of more housing, and I am pleased to say there is a pipeline of these disposals coming forward.”
