Plans are being developed for apartment blocks to be built on part of the derelict old meat market site on Duke Street. A report from ReGlasgow says developers Home Group intend to apply for planning permission to build the affordable apartments on land at the junction of Duke Street and Bellgrove Street. There would be 252 apartments and two commercial units.
The article reveals: “Documents issued as part of the pre-application consultation process state: “This is an exciting opportunity to develop a housing-led proposal on a key site to the east of the city centre assisting Glasgow City Council in realising their ambitions for the wider Meat market masterplan.”
“The proposals aim to provide strong frontages along Duke Street and Bellgrove Street using a tenement form. There would be a central avenue framing views of the former Eastern District Hospital and the Meat Market sheds. Landscaped rear courts with car parking and amenity space would be provided.”
Glasgow City Council had earmarked the meat market site for future mixed-use development as part of the City Deal scheme. The 5.7 hectare site was divided into smaller parcels to stimulate development interest.
A planning document published last year stated: “The extensive Meat Market site offers significant opportunities for employment-creating development but requires investment to improve links with adjacent neighbourhoods and to enable subdivision into smaller, more marketable plots in order to stimulate developer interest by reducing up-front costs which are difficult to raise.
“It is proposed to build the Meat Market infrastructure in one phase; the resultant layout will provide access, services and utilities to development plots while providing amenity space for the area. The future developments will require separate planning applications and are outwith the scope of this application.
“The council are seeking to encourage active, community-based temporary uses of the development plots once the site remediation and infrastructure works have been completed and prior to final development.”
This development, should it go ahead, would link Dennistoun to the area of the city centre around High Street that has been redeveloped as part of the Collegelands Masterplan proposals.
The meat market closed in July 2001 and was demolished in 2007