July 16 2024

Bishopbriggs is set to welcome a mixed-use block on Kirkintilloch Road as the commuter town continues to densify its centre.

Leftover land next to the Crow Tavern, currently home to nothing but advertising hoardings, is earmarked for a combination of ten apartments and ground-floor retail within spitting distance of the train station.

The linear site backs onto a railway embankment and will play host to a long apartment block topped by 'pull out' stone banding layers' and a set-back metallic penthouse floor. Further articulated by indented balconies and a recessed retail plinth the buff brick block will help to bring more life to the town centre.

Explaining the chosen materiality and form S2 Architecture wrote: "The town centre follows a core typology of tiered retail and residential units.

"The arrangement of this can be viewed similarly to the basic column structure. The retail units form the base plinth with bands of residential flats. This is sought to be replicated within the proposed design’s materiality and form, using stone banding at each level and buff brick for the primary residential levels."

As part of the work, a culverted burn will be diverted under Kirkintilloch Road. 

6 Comments

#1 Posted by Jimbob Tanktop on 16 Jul 2024 at 15:47 PM

Think you mean Kirkintilloch Road, UR

#2 Posted by Jim Wilson on 17 Jul 2024 at 15:27 PM

‘Leftover land and nothing but advertising hoardings’ This area is home to three ornamental gardens a four benches.It is often used by locals reading or eating snacks Not to mention a large number of mature trees that will have to felled Lived in Bishopbriggs for over 50 years and this land has always been for the enjoyment of the public

#3 Posted by Bluff brick on 17 Jul 2024 at 16:52 PM

#2 - I would agree the overly credulous nature of Urban Realm's reporting is oftentimes frustrating. The job of a journalist is to present their readers with facts, not parrot either side's talking points. If someone says it's raining, and another person says it's dry, it's not your job to quote them both. Your job is to look out of the window and find out which is true.

#4 Posted by UR on 17 Jul 2024 at 17:10 PM

Happy to stand corrected on the planting and benches, we do link to Street view so you can look through the ‘screen’ window. No source is better than your experience.

#5 Posted by Marlyn Robertson on 17 Jul 2024 at 18:52 PM

Council should be more invested in making Main Street more inviting to fresh shops coming into the community not everyone appreciates large overpriced supermarkets and more importantly council housing for young people who are not on large salaries and can’t afford deposits and massive mortgages

#6 Posted by Dedunn on 17 Jul 2024 at 23:37 PM

Given the number of empty retail units in Bishopbriggs what is the point of new Retail Units also thought there was supposed to be plan to increase green space this plan means less green space.

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