January 28 2025

Avant Homes and Eldridge Developments are consulting on plans to deliver 249 homes in Easterhouse ahead of a planning application in March.

16.2ha of former agricultural land at Lochend Road within the Seven Lochs Wetland Park at Lochend Road has been chosen for the build, identified for housing development as a green belt release site in Glasgow's City Development Plan.

Outlining how the suburban expansion will be delivered along an extended road network the developer wrote: "In accordance with designing streets and the council's design guide for new residential areas the layout of the roads have been designed to minimise the impact of vehicular traffic and will introduce shared surfaces and multi-use squares/nodes.

"A series of secondary, tertiary and shared streets will provide access through the remainder of the development. These streets will be informal in character, vary in width and will incorporate both footways and areas of shared surface..."

A second public consultation will be held next month. 

11 Comments

#1 Posted by Roddy_ on 28 Jan 2025 at 13:30 PM

More ludicrous car-dependant sprawl with practically nothing within 10 min walk. So much for 20min neighbourhoods.

#2 Posted by freshly on 28 Jan 2025 at 15:01 PM

Modern definition of hell.

#3 Posted by spike on 28 Jan 2025 at 15:56 PM

I wholeheartedly agree with this proposal but acknowledge transport is a potential problem.
Surely this could be resolved with an extended rail link, perhaps part of the Clyde Metro solution?
This is exactly what this area needs; it will lead to a more balanced community and improve the wider Easterhouse area.
I really hope this progresses.

#4 Posted by Lovely on 29 Jan 2025 at 07:52 AM

Yup more car bound Greenfield development for the big boys.

Meanwhile try redeveloping a small Brownfield site in the inner city and see how you get treated.

Also small scale occasional car use being destroyed in the inner city before the alternatives are in place.

The brainlessness of these policies seems to be almost deliberately destructively vicious against ordinary life, small business and community.

#5 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 29 Jan 2025 at 10:55 AM

No matter the number of ghost streets in the area waiting for development we are now going to have "greenbelt release" where 16.2 ha of agricultural land is now built over and the older streets are left to rot.

Huge questions all round on this.
Middle income Scotland -- too posh for an Easterhouse address so they will only buy greenfield??
Glasga design guide -- ignore cars and introduce "shared surfaces" where the forgotten cars will eventually park. Trendy vicar nonsense with no engagement with the real world.
Avant Homes -- hopefully they have found their design vibe and deliver at least 70 square feet in their bedrooms.
Council chat -- more interested in multi-use nodes than the size of the bedrooms.

#6 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 29 Jan 2025 at 11:01 AM

New builds in this area -- does that mean that the council is going to sort out the fly tipping / litter / general dump vibe issues on Lochend Road and Commonhead Road?

Plus upgrade the dangerous rat run that Lochend Road has become?

Silver lining -- looking for a cloud.

#7 Posted by Fat Bloke on Tour on 29 Jan 2025 at 11:24 AM

Lochend Road rat run -- now directed through the new development ...

Some mistake surely?

Bad / double bad -- Not been thought through.

#8 Posted by spike on 29 Jan 2025 at 14:20 PM

Find it depressing all of the negative comments above, this is a great opportunity for Easterhouse and the sooner this site is developed the better for the local community and Glasgow.

#9 Posted by Lovely on 29 Jan 2025 at 16:31 PM

The negative comments are all given for the detailed reasons explained above and come from educated logical real world perspectives it seems.

Repeatedly trumpeting that it’s a wonderful idea without saying why is not an effective style of debate.

However it does neatly explain the thinking of the people who support this type of thing.

#10 Posted by Spike on 29 Jan 2025 at 19:57 PM

If you had read my earlier posting you will have seen why I think it's a good idea to develop this site for private housing. It will bring a more mixed community ie economically and socially and contribute overall to better outcomes for Easterhouse. Research has shown providing more mixed communities has beneficial results and remember Easterhouse is currently a low income area with all the attendant problems this brings.

#11 Posted by Spike on 29 Jan 2025 at 20:01 PM

Just to add to the above I did acknowledge earlier that transport is a potential problem and this is something which needs addressing and I suggested a rail link which could be provided as part of proposals in the Clyde Metro integrated transport networks

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