March 31 2025

CRGP Architects and Sanctuary Scotland have produced new plans for a large gap site south of the new Victoria Hospital in Langside, Glasgow.

Replacing a previous approval for an over 55's apartment block, the latest plans envisage a mix of 46 one and two-bedroom apartments for social rent, which pick up where the newly completed Old Victoria housing development opposite left off.

In a planning statement, CRGP wrote: "... the significance of the Battlefield Junction and the B Listed Battlefield Rest is essential when considering the development of the design.

"With the existing flat car park on the site, this boundary is ill-defined and feels off balance. Historically, the Queens Park School featured a 2-3 storey building right on the corner. The design has been developed to re-create this strong perimeter, frame the view on approach towards Battlefield Rest and reinstate it as the central, focal point to the junction."

Addressing the junction with a feature corner, adjoined by two smaller scale blocks, with the gaps between channelling two through routes to the Old Victoria site. The ground floor area will be unified by a double-height horizontal band defining the main entrances and linking to adjoining blocks in the form of a collonade.  

2 Comments

#1 Posted by Georwell84 on 31 Mar 2025 at 16:49 PM

Vast improvement on the previous design. So sigh of relief for that.

#2 Posted by Roddy_ on 31 Mar 2025 at 19:37 PM

Trying and failing to copy out of Page/Park's jotters at Crown St / Laurieston Rd.

Those strange/deep cut-outs at ground floor level on the corner block and those wide, unsupervised pends giving transverse access across the site. A mugger's / p*ssers paradise (Hampden). What were they thinking? They clearly haven't had a Secured by Design audit yet.

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