Parking reduced at Glasgow housing development to make way for amenity space

A condition to reduce the number of car parking spaces at a housing development on the former Ruchill Hospital site in Glasgow has been agreed by councillors in favour of usable amenity space including a children’s play area, green space and a place for food growing.Bellway Homes was granted planning permission to build 403 homes at the site off Bilsland Drive at the beginning of the month. The housebuilder will deliver 160 one and two-bedroom flats and 243 three and four-bedroom homes. The properties will be a mixture of detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, and flats with a maximum height of four storeys.A new term to reduce the amount of car parking from 160% to 125% provision was included in the conditions in order to meet the council’s sustainable transport policy and was agreed by councillors last week.Members asked for assurances that by agreeing to this condition there would be enough room for all the amenity space.The council agreed that it could ask for a certain amount of space to be reserved for food growth on the site.