January 30 2023

A town centre gap site in Coatbridge has been earmarked for 49 apartments under new plans filed by North Lanarkshire Council to spur regeneration.

Do Architecture and Narro have been asked by the local authority to deliver homes for social rent, including the adaptive reuse of a B-listed former bank.

In a statement, the applicant wrote: "Prompted by the rebalancing of existing building typologies a new strategy to provide high quality, higher density town centre housing that meets the needs and aspirations of the local community has been implemented.

"... an improved, modern take on Coatbridge’s urban context has been established based on traditional forms and civic proportions found in the surrounding area."

Located within the Blairhill and Dunbeth Conservation area the new build blocks on Church Street will populate a brownfield site on Church Street, creating an urban-scale infill of varying heights and styles backed onto a rear shared amenity space.

2 Comments

#1 Posted by Roddy_ on 30 Jan 2023 at 16:48 PM

This looks exactly like the kind of urban infill that we should be doing across our towns and cities - that is until we learn that there are 40 odd car parking spaces assigned to this development across 2 nearby sites.

One wonders what is the strategy to re-balance this?

#2 Posted by HMR on 31 Jan 2023 at 13:12 PM

Commendable effort, it was all going so well until it turns the corner onto Academy Street - could we also not save the small Sandstone building and incorporate into the facade?

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