Glasgow City Council

Glasgow City Council yesterday approved its Strategic Housing Investment Plan for the city over the 2021-26 period, a time which will see £469.71 million affordable housing supply programme grant funding made available with the aim of building an additional 4,400 affordable homes.

Home carers in Glasgow City Council’s Health and Social Care Partnership (HSCP) will launch a ballot for industrial action next week, warning they have “no confidence” over plans for workplace testing of COVID-19 and amid ongoing uncertainty surrounding the vaccination programme.

An amended plan to convert the empty floors above a KFC restaurant in central Glasgow into apartments has been submitted to Glasgow City Council. Nine flats are proposed in the vacant second and third floors and the new roof accommodation at 106 Renfield Street.

A renewed attempt to gain planning permission to turn empty B-listed Glasgow City Centre premises into serviced apartments has succeeded. Glasgow City Council planners have now approved plans submitted by Gosal Properties to convert the upper floors at 125 Douglas Street, above left, near Sauchiehal

A piece of Sighthill's history was marked last week with the burial of two time capsules at the Sighthill Circle, the stone circle in the area.

Financial support from Unity Trust Bank is helping to transform the site of a former Glasgow primary school into a vibrant, new housing estate.

Glasgow residents will have their say on possible reforms to the private rented sector in the city after councillors agreed that there is a rent crisis.

Plans to build 10 houses at a disused bowling green have been approved by Glasgow City Council on appeal. Officials had initially refused the application proposing two terraces of five homes on a disused section of the grounds at Cathcart Bowling Club.

Plans have been submitted to create 11 serviced apartments and a restaurant at a listed building in central Glasgow. Glasgow City Council has received an application for the apartments on the second and third floor of 54 Union Street.

Glasgow City Council will be asked to declare a rent crisis next week and let tenants reform the private rented sector after figures revealed the rising costs paid by private tenants across the city.

A programme to facilitate more self-build housing developments across Glasgow is to be launched following the success of a pilot initiative. Glasgow City Council was the first in Scotland to set up a self-build register (now with more than 300 entries), facilitate a unique council enabled self-build

Elderpark Housing has moved into its new home in Govan after a stunning transformation of a 19th century former school. The Association has taken delivery of the restored and hugely-admired Hills Trust Primary School which holds a prominent place in the centre of Govan.

A £42.6 million project to transform a former meat market into 252 flats for mid-market rent has received grant approval via Glasgow City Council’s affordable housing supply programme.

Glasgow City Council is set to begin preparatory work on the potential compulsory purchase of the site of the former Talisman public house, should a sale not be agreed with the owners. The site at 149 Balgrayhill Road in Springburn has lain derelict for almost 20 years, and is a visual and environme

Planning officers at Glasgow City Council are recommending that councillors reject the latest application to build flats at a disused Finnieston Bowling Club.