The Herald, by Gerry Braiden
One of the lead developers in Manchester's regeneration is behind
plans for more than 180 flats at City Wharf overlooking
Clyde Waterfront in Glasgow.
Dandara's £180m scheme, which if approved will see the
residential properties housed in four 22-storey blocks, comes a day
before Glasgow City Council is expected to give the green light for
the completion of the Atlantic Quay development.
The plans, based at the heart of the city's International
Financial Services district, include six buildings, based around
small public piazzas, and office and residential accommodation, as
well as retail and leisure outlets.
Designed by award-winning architecture practice GM & AD, the
scheme being put forward by Dandara lies just west of the Kingston
Bridge on Anderston Quay and will contain 853 apartments, as well
as 18,500 square metres of office and commercial space.
It is hoped the location will enhance the connectivity between
the developments along the Clyde and Glasgow city centre if
approved by the authority's Planning Committee later this year.
Peter Lackey, managing director of Dandara, said: "We look
forward to bringing this scheme forward to enable commencement and
delivery of another exciting major mixed-use urban regeneration
project within Glasgow itself.
"This new venture will provide quality office, retail and
residential property to the marketplace."
Fellow developer Wilson Bowden will discover tomorrow whether
the brownfield sites on the other side of the Kingston Bridge will
be granted consent for another major scheme.
The company bought the Atlantic Quay site in 2001 and in that
time its demolition and facade retention schemes have attracted BT
and Scottish Enterprise to the area.
The financial services district, or IFSD, is halfway through its
10-year timespan to be fully operational and well on track to reach
its target of attracting 20,000 new jobs to the city and creating
two million sq ft of premium office space by 2011.
The proposals up for approval are two stand-alone developments,
the first containing a 12-storey office block, a six-storey office
building with retail space and 62 flats behind an A-listed
warehouse facade, complete with basement car parking.
The second block contains two six-storey and one seven-storey
office buildings.
Meanwhile, 320 new homes have been earmarked for the former
Barr's Irn Bru Factory in Glasgow's east end.
The soft drinks maker left its Gallowgate home in February,
where it had been for 120 years, for a purpose-built facility in
Cumbernauld.
Bellway Homes will hear tomorrow whether its proposal for 278
flats and 42 terraced homes has been successful.
Reproduced with the permission of The Herald (Glasgow)
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