Glasgow Housing : Information + Images

GHA News The Scotsman report that the board of Glasgow Housing Association is set to quit, after the Scottish Housing Regulator questioned the organisation's management and its strategic direction and purpose. The SHR is conducting an audit of GHA, due to be completed at the end of June. GHA is Scotland's largest housing association with 63,000 tenants and 26,000 factored homeowners. 13 Jun 2009 Glasgow housing : Houses in Multiple Occupancy Homes for the Future Tower Block Demolitions – News Update Dec 2008 Following demolitions in 2008 at Royston (1 block), Gorbals (2), Sighthill (2) Pollokshaws (2) & Millarston (3). Of the 223 blocks remaining, around three quarters are multi-storey towers - 12 storeys and over. The Red Road flats are the highest at 31 storeys. Glasgow Housing Association plans to demolish two more tower blocks - at Shawbridge Street and Sighthill - early next year with more to follow. When GHA took over the housing stock from Glasgow City Council in 2003 it inherited 238 high-rise blocks comprising 22,467 flats. Red Road Flats Demolition – News Update May 2008 Glasgow’s tallest tower blocks set for demolition in £60m rehousing initiative for tenants: Red Road flats owned by Glasgow Housing Association (GHA) since 2003. To be replaced by over 200 houses. Links to recent Glasgow Housing projects Bell Street Clyde St Housing Cochrane Square Crown Street Custom House Quay Festival Park Glasgow Cross Homes for the Future 2 Lancefield Quay Macfarlane House Matrix Housing Monument Building Oswald street Paisley Housing Queen Elizabeth Square River Heights Lancefield Axiom Flats The Pinnacle Vantage Glasgow Waddell House Keep up with news re emerging projects on the Glasgow News page Glasgow Housing News 2007 Gorbals housing Page & Park Architects’ Glasgow housing project Glasgow Housing News 2006 Images from the large development at the east end of Ingram St, northeast Merchant City: 050506 Glasgow housing - photos © adrian welch G1, Ingram Street / High Street / College Street, Merchant City 2006 Halliday Fraser Munro housing + retail development: 62 units ; 2 retail spaces Feature Property: glasgow harbour + graham square housing Scottish Housing Projects: Dumbarton housing Millbrae Feature Property: A chrannag Pollokshaws housing Glasgow Housing - Tower Blocks Glasgow tower blocks - images © adrian welch 2005 The city is well known (in Scotland at least) for the Comprehensive Redevelopment Areas which decimated slums in the fifties and sixties, replacing them with brave new world tower blocks and slab blocks. Some examples above from just south of the Crown Street area (left) and from the Gorbals (right). Queen Elizabeth Square housing by Basil Spence was demolished and has now been replaced by a CZWG masterplan (led by Gordon Duffy now of Duffy & Batt). Glasgow tower block mural - scanned image © adrian welch 1988 Drumchapel Housing Clyde Salvage Site Housing, Waddell Street, Gorbals 2007- Page\Park Architects Adj. Buildings : Queen Elizabeth Square & Crown Street developments Glasgow Council Housing - History In 1946 a plan was published by the Clyde Valley Regional Planning Advisory Committee, which had been set up during the war. It suggested the dispersal of 550,000 Glaswegians into New Towns at East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Bishopton and Houston. Glasgow at tha time had a population of around 1,130,000. However much of the slum clearance was allowed through removal of people to outer Glasgow rahter than outside the city. High-rise flats were to be built in the inner zone. The outer zone would consist of new estates: Castlemilk, Garscadden, Nitshill and Priesthill, and part of Pollok. Glasgow City Corporation opted in the end for overspill with building in outer Glasgow. Overspill went to new towns: East Kilbride, Cumbernauld, Glenrothes and Livingston. Glasgow signed overspill arrangements with around 60 other councils across Scotland, in addition to the new towns. The furthest overspill we are aware of is the Riverside Drive estate in Haddington, East Lothian (where we live). The outer Glasgow housing was for Easterhouse, Drumchapel, Castlemilk and Pollok. The comprehensive development of central Glasgow areas was the largest of any city in the UK and thousands of tenements were demolished, principally in the fifties. The key area redeveloped was Hutchestown and the Gorbals. In 1947, city councillors visited Marseille to inspect new tower-blocks devised by Le Corbusier. By 1979 Glasgow had more than 300 multi-storey tower blocks. The Red Road flats at Balornock were, at 31 storeys, the highest in Europe. The first residents were welcomed in 1969, and the blocks were completed in the summer of 1971. However, by 1975 complaints were starting to emerge re the Red Road flats from residents. The motorway network strangled the city, looping round the north and west sides of the city centre. The most disliked section was the Charing Cross part of the inner ring road, linking the Kingston Bridge to the St George's Cross interchange in 1972. The Glasgow Eastern Area Renewal (GEAR) project was set up to redevelop 3500 neglected acres in the east end; it was finished in 1987. Bridgeton, Dalmarnock, Shettleston and Parkhead were revitalised through private housing development. In 2003, Glasgow Council's 84,000 homes were transferred to Glasgow Housing Association, a not-for-profit social landlord Current Glasgow Housing - Buildings, 2005-06: Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - CZWG Architects Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch oct 2005 Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - Elder & Cannon Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch oct 2005 Queen Elizabeth, Glasgow - Page/Park Architects to south: Glasgow housing - image © adrian welch oct 2005 Crown Street - CZWG Architects crown street: image from czwg architects 2005 Crown Street, Glasgow - Hypostyle Architects new gorbals: images from hypostyle architects Dumbarton Housing - Cooper Cromar Architects Housing image from Cooper Cromar Architects Jan 05 Bell St Housing - Gholami Baines Architects Glasgow Houusing image from Ali Nov 05 Vantage apartments - Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects Clyde St Flats image from Jewitt Arschavir & Wilkie Architects Scottish Housing Current Glasgow Housing Issues: Red Road Flats Glasgow Housing Association has announced plans to pull down the city's notorious Red Road scheme as part of a £60m redevelopment. The eight skyscrapers - 1,300 flats packed onto this small site in these eight huge tower blocks - among Britain's tallest, are expected to be demolished over the next decade. GHA confirmed the first demolition at the site, one of two 27-storey slabs, as it announced record investment in a new scheme for Balornock and Barmulloch. Detailed plans for Red Road Flats will be a matter for future consultations and the area's tenants group. Around 600 low-rise private and social-rented homes will be built, filling in the spaces between Red Road towers and brownfields left by bulldozers tearing down an earlier generation of tenement homes. Glasgow Housing Association - Website: www.gha.org.uk Bett Partnerships + Link Housing Association + Glasgow Housing Association Work has started on a £160m regeneration project for Oatlands in Glasgow, which will bring around 1250 new homes to the area. Bett Partnerships, part of the Gladedale Group, gained planning permission for the first phase of this major Glasgow housing development. The development will include a restaurant, public hall and neighbourhood shops, new roads, relocation of allotment gardens, improvements to Richmond Park School and Richmond Park and a new 'Oatlands Square'. Edinburgh Housing projects are listed on the Edinburgh Architecture tours pages. Glasgow Housing News Excerpts Jun 2004 Gallowgate Housing: Slatefield Street architectural competition Four students have won an architectural competition to help rid a deprived area of Glasgow of its run-down housing. Leading architects worked with the students and tenants on the housing designs. Designs are for 221 homes - to be upgraded or rebuilt - in the Gallowgate, Glasgow. The students' housing designs were selected from 40 entries and local housing managers aim to use their designs. The Slatefield Street area in Gallowgate has been earmarked for redevelopment and the competition was a way of involving local people with the planners to come up with homes people wanted to live in. Winners:- Gideon Purser & Stephen Mulhall, Mackintosh School of Architecture Ewan Imrie & Rachel Cleminson, Strathclyde University School of Architecture Euro Stock Stick Euro inquiry into £4bn GHA housing transfer The European Commission has launched an investigation into the financing of the £4bn Glasgow housing stock transfer 12.07.02