Glasgow's Bellgrove Hotel to be demolished as disposal of land to housing associations confirmed

The Bellgrove Hotel will be partially demolished
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Glasgow's notorious Bellgrove Hotel is set to be partially demolished as Glasgow City Council confirm the disposal of land to housing associations.

Glasgow City Council has approved the disposal of land in Maryhill to Maryhill Housing Association, and land in Gallowgate to Wheatley Homes Glasgow. These disposals will allow 'progress on the delivery of regeneration' in both of these areas.

Land in Maryhill - at Kilmun Street, Sandbank Street, Fearnmore Road and Cumlodden Drive, all with the Maryhill Transformational Regeneration Area - is steeply-sloping and mostly wooded, with pathways and grassed areas. Following the disposal, Maryhill Housing Association will clear and upgrade the area to improve amenity and access.

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The disposal is part of regeneration plans
The disposal is part of regeneration plans -Credit:Google Maps

The housing association have been given grant funding from the Scottish Government's Vacant and Derelict Land Fund and Vacant and Derelict Land Investment Programme to carry out these works, which form part of the delivery of the North Maryhill TRA Green Infrastructure Masterplan.

The disposal of the land at Wyper Place in Gallowgate - which lies within the Gallowgate Transformational Regeneration Area - will see the ownership of the small hammerhead road and small grassed area of vacant land there transferred to Wheatley Homes Glasgow.

The land will then form part of the landscape and attenuation work for the development of 70 affordable new homes as part of the redevelopment of the former Bellgrove Hotel.

Wheatley Homes Glasgow are now progressing a stopping-up order for the hammerhead road, and as part of the TRA regeneration work there, the adjoining Bellgrove Hotel will be partially demolished, with the façade to be retained.

Councillor Ruairi Kelly, Convener for Neighbourhood Services and Assets at Glasgow City Council, said: "The council's disposal of the pieces of land in the Gallowgate and Maryhill will allow both the development of new homes in the city and upgraded public realm in an area that has been vacant for some time. We will continue to work with our partners in the city to help deliver initiatives such as these which meet our strategic housing objectives."

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