That is such utter dross. It's as though someone dared them to see how bad a proposal they'd be willing to submit. I usually assume that when you see an inner city development called "village" you are dealing with people that would never choose to live in a city themselves and can't understand why anyone else would want to, but even so that is anti-urban keech to an unbelievable extent

The single most pitifully disjointed anti-urban thing imaginable. If this gets through, disband the planning department.

Dreadful. The grid street system is already set out! Follow that with 5-6 storey blocks. It is not difficult!
Also would the developer not consider buying out that awful MOT centre and single storey row of shops to undertake a complete redevelopment of the block?

To use architectural language, it's 'respectful' and 'in-keeping' with the rest of Calton.
There seems to be zero ambition here to improve the area.

This is awful. For anywhere never mind an inner city block.
Where's the relationship to the grid? The bulk?
Is Glasgow the only city that continually makes these same mistakes?

This is pathetic for a site within a mile of the city centre.
Gallowgate should be bustling with commerce.
This site needs to be high density incorporated into the grid. Why cant they see that.

I can only hope that Wheatley and Hypostyle are hanging their heads that this has escaped the drawing board. Utterly lacking the appropriate scale, density and urban form that the Graham Square developments were meant to spearhead. It has more in common with the dreadful 80's developments across the road than any modern concepts of urban development. Shame.

What a mess... Whoever come to idea of yet another city centre 'village' - please, take a rest. Perfect scarifying joke for Halloween - this one is on you guys.

I can see from the submitted application form that there were several pre-app meetings with GCC, particularly the City Design Tsar Raffaele Esposito. I wonder how much meddling was imposed on Hypostyle.....Must do better.

Compare with how densely populated the Sydney Street / Armour Street area was at the end of the Victorian era https://maps.nls.uk/view/82891761 and how it was eventually reduced to just one tenement http://www.glesga.ukpals.com/streets/sydneyst.htm

I remember when these green fields were all tenements!

It will be interesting to see if this progresses into the area to the north west of the plan, a much larger area formerly occupied by the meat market/cattle market.

Further to the above, I now actually clicked on ER's link in the article to the Meat Market proposals, which look very good and much more worthy of the urban context!

I presume they will be named Farage Court, Tice Row, Widdecombe Place etc just to complete the bleak post Brexit picture………….

The urbicide goes on.

I don`t normally comment on here but this design and layout is so bad that it has to be stopped in it`s tracks. All over our city our major thoroughfares have big gaps or whole sections missing and instead of rebuilding our main urban corridors, already connected to good public transport, we build.... urban villages. "Villages" that look like a low density estate in Glenrothes and give no nod whatsoever as to the fantastic traditional styles that used to predominate in our city. There are a lot of nice modern buildings that have been built(not having a go at modernity!) but this is so bland it could be anywhere. Why the aversion to buildings that look like they belong to Glasgow or at least give a nod to the place? Why very little front on to Gallowgate? Existing street lines? Oooodles of stunning buildings all over the city to inspire you .... nah, ok then.

I should clarify that the number of houses on-site is 30. Not 33 as stated previously. Also, the site plan has been developed further and currently takes the form depicted in the new images presented above.

Seriously, this is the site: https://imgur.com/5bhDC72
Just go on and do this: https://imgur.com/XpUe8tH

Really, it's not difficult.
In the second picture you have what makes Glasgow unique. And elegant. And walkable, and liveable, and urban, and interesting.

Stop destroying it.

It would appear the proposal has gone through a design process and not taken much heed of the Design Guide for New Residential Areas. I would have expected a Preliminary Design Audit to be included in the documentation on the planning site.

It seems very surprising indeed to me that the team involved in the fabulous and very successful Graham Square were not involved in Calton Village and what a ludicrous name for an urban development.