The plans are of “huge significance to the Barras area”
Plans to build homes on a former car park are “critical in bridging the perceived gap” between the city centre and east end, developers have said.
Read more: Glasgow schoolboy rushed to hospital with serious burns after aerosol can 'explodes in fire' Wheatley Group’s application stated demand for the flats is expected from “young people, predominantly with employment in the city”. It added the two commercial units, on the corners of the ground floor, would provide “new business opportunities to the area as well as draw more people to the Barras locale”.
“The addition of two retail units on the corners of the development will help combat the current lack of street level activity between the Barras and the city centre.” Wheatley Groups’s development would have no parking spaces for cars but around 50 bike spaces would be included.
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