Crumbling Glasgow police station to live on as flats
January 22 2025
Revised plans to convert a derelict Glasgow police station into apartments have received the all-clear from planners.
Dating from 1906 the former Central Police HQ on Turnbull Street is to be extensively remodelled by Detail to provide 31 courtyard homes having lain vacant for close to a decade.
Among the attached conditions is a requirement to retain and re-use any artefacts uncovered during on-site works with planners stating: "The scheme shall include proposals for the salvage, storage and reuse of recoverable items. All reasonable steps shall be taken to salvage recoverable items during the demolition process, and within four weeks of the completion of the demolition process, a written report shall be submitted to and approved in writing by the planning authority.
"This report shall itemise all items and materials retained from that process, and include proposals for their re-use preferably on site for repairs to the retained listed building, or within the landscaping proposals."
Heritage features include decorative grilles lining an elevator shaft, which will be reattached to new concrete blockwork. Other features however such as badly damaged decorative courtroom plasterwork will be hidden behind a false ceiling. Hardwood panelling will re-used in living rooms where possible.
All windows on the rear elevation of the back cell block will use frosted glass to protect the privacy of existing residents
The red brick and sandstone facades will be restored to their past glory
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