September 1 2022

Miller Homes have opened a pre-application consultation for the delivery of a neighbourhood centre on green belt land west of Leverndale Hospital, Glasgow.

Around 300 homes are planned off Raeswood Road including retail, business and food and drink outlets bordered by accessible green space. Sold as a means to fully envelop Crookston by extending a network of recreational and green corridors to the west the landscape plan calls for development to ‘close’ the green loop.

A consultation statement prepared by Geddes Consulting said: “Development of the site presents an opportunity to provide a better edge between the settlement and the surrounding countryside. At present much of the settlement edge in this location is weak, presenting a poor interface with the countryside. The development presents the opportunity to rectify this by creating a new clear Green Belt boundary defined by features such as White Cart Water.

“Development of the site does not compromise this objective of
the Green Belt as separation between Glasgow and Paisley
would remain. Release of this site from the Green Belt will help
the Council to achieve its effective housing land supply target.”

An application for planning in principle is expected later this year with work on site to get underway by early 2024.

12 Comments

#1 Posted by Bob Smith on 1 Sep 2022 at 08:38 AM

Incoming ........ take cover

#2 Posted by Bemused_Citizen on 1 Sep 2022 at 16:26 PM

I hadn't realised that the year is 1822.

Interestingly, Tornagrain sold a lot of its houses with "period features" in the description. None of the features are of its time, therefore are not "period". Just more capitalist crap.

#3 Posted by juan de los angeles on 2 Sep 2022 at 11:02 AM

@ Bemused_Citizen, I'm glad you acknowledge that Tornagrain sold a lot of houses. Must be doing something right, eh? Btw, what does 'of it's time' mean anyway?

#4 Posted by Neil McAllister on 2 Sep 2022 at 12:52 PM

"Of it's time" surely means representative of the style current at the time it was built. If this is what house buyers in 2022 are looking for, then I would say it is "of it's time". It may not be fashionable among the architectural profession - but they are a small minority.

#5 Posted by Neil McAllister on 2 Sep 2022 at 12:54 PM

Having said that, there are some really weird details in the proposed image - in particular the window sitting just under the base of the gable.

#6 Posted by Jimbob Tanktop on 2 Sep 2022 at 14:23 PM

#3 Tornagrain selling houses right now is a bit like selling Diet Vimto during a drought. It's nobody's first, second or fifty-eighth choice but who cares, we're thirsty as hell.

#7 Posted by Ilias Hisset on 2 Sep 2022 at 15:17 PM

@#3 As self-appointed Style Arbiter of Our Time can you please enlighten us with a name for, and material description of, the style we should all be aspiring to build and live in so that we can spread the word? I'd love to know what your house looks like, must be something really special.

#8 Posted by Ilias Hisset on 2 Sep 2022 at 15:19 PM

I meant @#2, not @#3... apologies (Bemused) Juan

#9 Posted by marty mcfly on 2 Sep 2022 at 15:35 PM

Going by the date stone this was done two years ago, so all ready out of time!!

#10 Posted by juan de los angeles on 2 Sep 2022 at 17:16 PM

Well said Ilias Hisset. And nothing dates more quickly than a building ‘of its time’.

#11 Posted by Nairn's Bairn on 6 Sep 2022 at 08:56 AM

I agree with #5 (and #4).

It's nice, but there's something not quite right - a builder's version of Tornagrain or Knockroon.

I'm not saying traditional designs are what we should all be aiming for, but if you're going to do it, do it right.

The aforementioned window at the foot of the verge, the lack of lintel height between first floor window head and eaves (and use of projecting timber eaves rather than rafter brackets), the shallow shopfront fascia (shop signage will be small), inconsistent window bands (and coverage of same by eaves), top hung windows rather than sliding sash, and I know it's just an image but the coursing suggests tile rather than slate on the roof. The overly-prominent datestone, located on a secondary elevation, should probably be on the street gable.

Sometimes something done poorly is worse than not doing it at all, but with some attention to detail this could be nice.

#12 Posted by Ilias Hisset on 21 Sep 2022 at 12:44 PM

"Sometimes something done poorly is worse than not doing it at all"

The surrounding, and long-since complete, redevelopment of the former Leverndale Hospital and Crookston Home sites, and development of the formerly greenfield area of Old Crookston being three cases in point.

Do I love this proposal?

No.

Is it better than anything built in the area in the last, what, 50 years?

Yeah. Yeah it probably is.

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