15 social homes proposed for Glasgow conservation area

Coltart Earley Architecture has submitted plans for a 15-home social housing development on a vacant brownfield plot in Finnieston on behalf of Glasgow West Housing Association.The 0.068-hectare site adjacent to 6 Corunna Street is located south of Argyll Street, north of St Vincent Crescent, and is located within the St Vincent Crescent Conservation Area of the city. The development is located on the site of a former tenement block that was demolished in the 1980s.The proposal aims to fill the vacant site by completing the urban block of tenements within the conservation area. This includes using “an architectural style which identifies with the character and appearance of the area, and replicates its important characteristics”, the architects said.A planning application for the site from 2008 by a private developer has lapsed. Since then, a Compulsory Purchase Order by Glasgow City Council was confirmed in 2010 which notes that the end use of the site must be for mainstream social rented flats due to the relative shortage of social rented accommodation in the area.