More than 400 homes and a 934-bed student accommodation development can be built near the River Clyde after a firm secured permission from Glasgow City Council.
Summix had intended to provide a hotel on the site, under a previously approved application, but told the council that it had been replaced with student accommodation due to “the lack of demand for hotel and office uses”. Mr Black said his firm had reached out to the NHS but “didn’t have a particularly successful dialogue with them”. He said it had also had “early conversations” with dentists and pharmacists, who asked them to come back once the development had progressed.
He said the firm was also attracted by Glasgow’s “future vision and its ambitions for growth” and the site’s “connectivity, its proximity to the Clyde, its proximity to the city” and transport links. “One of the concerns that always gets raised is student populations often feel a bit remote so they are not part of the community that exists. I think that having a mix of residential and student is probably a good way of trying to go forward.”
However, she said: “I think this development has lots of things going for it. We are developing a brownfield site which is positive, we are getting more residential housing which is positive.”
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