£120m build plan to boost East End

james73 · £120m build plan to boost East End

£120m build plan to boost East End (Evening Times)

A SUPERSTORE, shops, a restaurant and more than 80 houses will be built
in Glasgow's East End as part of a £120million development.

Persimmon has applied to Glasgow City Council for planning permission to
build on a site near The Fort mall, just off the M8.

The site, about the size of four football fields, is between Gartloch Road and
Findochty Street, Garthamlock.

It is also close to the new National Indoor Sports Arena being built for the 2014
Commonwealth Games.

The development will incorporate a nursery, a nursing home and a games court,
which will become part of the existing Garthamlock Comm-unity Centre.

A total of 22 two- bedroom and three-bedroom homes and 66 two-bedroom
apartments are planned.

This will be the last phase of the firm's work in the area, which includes recently
built homes in estates called The Beeches and The Glen.

The firm won prizes at the Homes for Scotland Awards 2007 for its 118 affordable
houses in the area which were handed over to housing association Home Scotland.

However, as reported in the Evening Times, people who were due to move
into the houses from their run-down blocks were caught up in a legal dispute
after it was discovered the city council failed to change ownership documents
with the Land Registry of Scotland after the land was transferred back to them
from Glasgow Housing Association.

Due to this, Home Scotland was unable to buy the houses from Persimmon.

James H