August 15 2024

A housebuilding frenzy in Robroyston, Glasgow, is to be extended with plans for a further 300 homes by Taylor Wimpey and Caledonian Properties.

Both housebuilders have teamed up to develop Lumloch View at Robroyston Road with detailed plans showing a range of up to five-bedroom properties alongside public open space, a play area and active travel routes.

Martin Findlay, technical director for Taylor Wimpey West Scotland, said: “We aim to provide new open space, green networks and landscaping, which, together with the community proposals for land at Briarcroft, will present an opportunity to improve health and wellbeing in the area.”

Five acres of land will be transferred for a community garden, exercise area and memorial as part of the development.
 

3 Comments

#1 Posted by Roddy_ on 15 Aug 2024 at 23:53 PM

Utterly banal.Proof positive of the milk-and-water discretionary nature of the planning system.
The vast swaths of guidance on placemaking clearly matter not a jot when faced with something that is not sh*t enough to refuse.
The stuff that has been delivered thus far in Robroyston-it's as if the last 20 or 30 years of 'design governance' didn't exist. Shameful.

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#2 Posted by Graeme McCormick on 16 Aug 2024 at 15:53 PM

Would bigger gardens with thickets between each garden not generate a better sense of space and privacy ?

#3 Posted by Jim McKinney on 16 Oct 2024 at 16:52 PM

300 more family homes in an area that has minimum community facilities, an hourly bus service that stops at 7pm (no sunday service), bus stops and routes that exist only in the developers sales literature and a local primary school bursting at the seams with insufficient places for existing local children. It's high time that Glasgow Council ensured that support infrastructure, in all of it's forms, was in place before approving further housing development in this area.

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