£50m plan for 500 homes is ditched - Ruchill Hospital site

james73 · £50m plan for 500 homes is ditched - Ruchill Hospital site

£50m plan for 500 homes is ditched (Evening Times)

PLANS to build 500 homes on the site of a former Glasgow hospital have
been ditched.

A £50million joint-venture by property partners Gladedale and Bellway at
Ruchill Hospital in the north of the city was billed as one of the most
significant new housing projects in Glasgow and was due to start early
next year.

But the Evening Times can exclusively reveal the planning application has
never been submitted to Glasgow City Council, and probably won't be in
the near future.

And the land, which was due to be sold by Scottish Enterprise to the
developers, has never changed hands.

A spokeswoman for Gladedale said today: "We have currently withdrawn
on negotiations surrounding Ruchill hospital site."

The hospital and its grounds opened in 1900 and was a working hospital
until 1998. It dealt mostly with infectious diseases.

The development, and the jobs it would have created, was heralded as a
major boost for one of Glasgow's poorest areas.

It was intended to be a predominantly private development, though many
still hoped housing association homes would make up part of the project.

News that the plan for the 40-acre site looks doomed sparked anger and
disappointment.

James H

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This news does not come as a surprise in the current climate. My experience is that there is a virtual 'a stampede for the exits' going on right across the entire Scottish construction sector (I suppose it's the same in England).

For Glasgow, the Gladedale scenario is maybe particulalry bad news given that thye seem to habe been high profile and well favoured on a number of major developments and proposals. Bellway has always been more fo an up-and-down case for decades.