Talks are set to begin over the sale of two council sites, including a former Maryhill schoolhouse, to developers with plans for “much-needed” housing.
A deal will be negotiated for two plots, totalling over 22 acres, at Kenmuir Road in Carmyle if council approval is granted on Thursday.
Carmyle Developments Ltd, which wants to buy the site, owns the adjoining land and has planning permission in principle for a development which could include over 400 homes.
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The former Shakespeare Street schoolhouse in Maryhill would be purchased by Maryhill Housing Association and used as supported accommodation.
Councillor Ruairi Kelly, the council’s convener for neighbourhood services and assets, said: “We continue to support development in both the social and private sector, and these negotiations will hopefully result in more land and buildings being put to use providing much-needed housing in the city.
“New homes in Carmyle and Maryhill will be greatly welcomed and the capital receipts raised would be put to use delivering public services and infrastructure for the people of Glasgow.”
In Carmyle, the two plots of “unmaintained land”, separated by a disused railway line, would be included in the planned residential development.
A council report stated the “land acquisition will also enable them (the developers) to enhance the existing infrastructure to the subject site.”
The former schoolhouse, known as Killearn Bungalow, is a five-apartment red sandstone building which was retained by the council when the neighbouring Killearn Resource Centre, previously Shakespeare Street school, was sold for housing in 2017.
It has since been used as short-term emergency accommodation by Glasgow’s health and social care partnership but was declared surplus in March this year.
The council report added: “Since its use as a schoolhouse, the building’s uses had included short-term emergency accommodation, and the housing association would refurbish the property and use it as supported accommodation.
“This disposal would support the council’s housing objectives.”
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