Progress made on CVHA’s conversion of Airdrie church

Work is progressing on Clyde Valley Housing Association’s (CVHA) conversion of a historic Airdrie church into new flats for social rent.The project will see the old Broomknoll parish church in Airdrie town centre demolished to make way for 30 new one- and two-bedroomed flats.Building work at the site which first started in January, has returned to full swing after lockdown closures with the houses set to be completed and handed over in September next year.The town-centre development is one of six which the housing association is currently working on in Monklands, with 20 houses at two sites in Coatbridge due to be completed this month and future projects in the pipeline at Mill Loan and Upper Mill Street in Airdrie and at Kirkwood Street/Bank Street in Coatbridge, The Daily Record reports.Fifteen of the new homes will be constructed over three storeys in the converted and extended church building, where two stained glass memorial windows will be retained.The remainder of the flats will be in a new block at the southeast corner of the site, opposite Airdrie railway station and the nearby roundabout, with a 1930s extension to the church and its post-war hall being demolished.