In January, news broke that plans were being developed for apartment blocks to be built on part of the derelict old meat market site at the junction of Duke Street and Bellgrove Street.
Now, a proposal has been submitted for a development designed by JTP Architects on behalf of the Home Group.
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If approved, there would be 252 flats in total – 79 with one bedroom and 173 with two bedrooms and 20 of the ground floor flats would be wheelchair accessible.
A commercial unit is also proposed at the junction of Duke Street and Bellgrove Street and there would be 130 car parking spaces and storage for 318 bikes.
An application submitted to Glasgow City Council states: “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 statement added: “As part of the Meat Market Masterplan, the site is covered by the City Deal Glasgow scheme aiming to regenerate several sites across Glasgow.
“This is focussed on the upgrading of large areas of Glasgow to bring them back into use by creating infrastructure, offices, jobs and houses.”
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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 mostly demolished in 2007.