Refined Finnieston proposals seek to bowl over planners
May 29 2025
A Glaswegian developer hopes that perseverance pays as it returns to planners for a fourth attempt at getting a contentious West End housing development approved.
Following up a 2021 redesign, itself a revision of earlier failed attempts in 2020 and 2018, the latest approach to 35a St Vincent Crescent in Finnieston sees architects Page/Park and landscape architects HarrisonStevens once again refine their approach. This time around 20 apartments and duplexes will be complemented by public open space and a community room, in an attempt to navigate a path past planners.
Lead architect Andy Bateman remarked: “Finnieston is constantly changing and evolving and, with this proposal, we take consideration of previous planning applications by adapting, responding and refining our proposal for the city, the community, and those who want to move into the area. Our design seeks to show that development can be sympathetic to its neighbours by designing a building that complements its location while opening up previously gated private space to become a new publicly accessible open green space with new community room, benefitting all in the surrounding community.”
Backing onto an A-listed terrace and replacing a disused bowling green the site has become a planning battleground as the team seeks to deliver the £10m development in a conservation area.
Citing the original 1849 masterplan for the area by Alexander Kirkland, Nixon Blue argue that the intention was always for the land to be developed even if unrealised, echoing the approach taken at nearby Park Quadrant.
A community room will be made available for wider use
A public open space will replace the previous private grounds
The number of proposed apartments has steadily reduced from 39 as first envisaged
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