Terraced homes to take the place of a Govan care home
April 25 2025
A former care home in Govan is to make way for new housing under plans by Grant Murray Architects for Linthouse Housing Association.
Davislea Care Home has already been demolished in anticipation of development upon purchase by the housing association late last year and has now been fenced off.
36 homes for social rent are proposed for the irregular Mallaig Road site, which will play host to a range of terraced houses and cottage flats behind four-metre front gardens to provide privacy.
In a design statement, the architects wrote: "The overall approach to the layout closely follows the established orthogonal pattern established by the nearby Langlands Road, adjacent football pitch, day centre & existing roads. The access roads similarly follow this orthogonal approach to efficiently serve the housing. The only block which departs from this, does so to address the prominent public right of way that borders & bisects part of the site (Langlands Path).
"Blocks of terraces have been utilised to maximise the development area of the site & to reflect the prevailing building from found on Mallaig Road & much of Langlands Road."
Feature gables break up the pitched roofs of the terraces, massed to provide additional accommodation and a vertical emphasis. Bolt on cottage flats stand as 'side extensions' to the terrace.
Brick detailing is inspired by The Skinners School in Royal Tunbridge Wells
New housing follows the line of existing streets
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On a more substantive subject -- where are the mixed tenure neighbourhoods that the city desperately needs?
Surely social housing should have a mix of tenancy styles?
This is just another nail in the coffin of local schools -- more social housing so free school meals numbers up / exam results down.
We need mixed neighbourhoods not bigger social housing deserts.