The redevelopment of the former Meat Market site in the city’s East End is set to move forward on Thursday, with plans to double the number of new homes to 500.
Work on 252 homes has already started under a £42.6m first phase and around 250 more properties are expected to be delivered in a second stage.
The project has been described as “key to the regeneration of this part of the East End” by the council’s housing convener, Cllr Kenny McLean.
READ MORE: Glasgow cafe owners collecting rubbish from the streets turned away from recycling centre
Councillors will be asked to back negotiations with housing association Home Group over the delivery of phase two at a meeting of the city administration committee tomorrow.
Cllr Kenny McLean, convener for housing, development, built heritage and land use at Glasgow City Council, said: “The development of further housing at the Meat Market site is key to the regeneration of this part of the East End.
“We look forward to working with our project partners on delivering the next phases of the Meat Market, and completing the development of over 500 new homes for the city there.”
A masterplan for the Meat Market was approved in 2019 and designed “to stitch the site back into the surrounding neighbourhood”, a council report stated. Home Group has started work on 252 homes for mid-market rent, with the first phase expected to be completed in autumn next year.
It includes the development of 20 ground floor wheelchair readily adaptable units and two commercial properties, which will be built on the ground floor at the corner of Duke Street and Bellgrove Street. There has been a grant of £16.38m from the council’s affordable housing support programme towards the work.
Phase two will see around 250 units but the mix of housing has yet to be finalised. It is not expected to require support from the council’s affordable housing programme as Home Group is “proposing to utilise a cross subsidy model that they have developed in England”. That would involve using recycling profits from housing for sale or market rent into affordable housing.
Redeveloping the Meat Market site is complemented by other housing developments in the area, the council report added.
Officials reported: “These include Wheatley Group’s Calton Village (123 units for Mid Market Rent, currently on site, with a further 137 units planned in later phases. 80 units for social rent by Home Group at Orr Street, 77 for social rent by Thenue Housing Association at Abercromby Street and the ongoing development of the Gallowgate TRA.
There is also wider regeneration taking place as part of the Meat Market project, with plans for the listed former sheds, including space for business start-ups and food growing, as well as a social/retail development in the ‘superintendent’s house’ on Melbourne Street.
The site, bounded by Duke Street, Bellgrove Street, the Gallowgate and Barrack Street/Melbourne Street, was previously used as the Glasgow Meat Market Abattoir and Slaughterhouse complex, established in 1817.
It was closed around 40 years ago and the B-listed sheds were last used for motor auctions. A planned private development, which a council report states struggling partly due to the financial crash of 2007, did not go ahead.
