10.107 The Council will prepare a Local Development Strategy to address the complexity of issues affecting Greater Pollok and co-ordinate regeneration projects and investment. Although the area has benefited from significant housing renewal there is a need to focus on non-housing investment in the area. The Local Development Strategy will provide the strategic framework within which development decisions associated with the following major land-use issues can be set:
population loss;
shortage of local employment opportunities;
expansion of the green space network; and
development of Pollok Town Centre.
PEOPLE
10.108 Communities Scotland, housing associations, the private sector and the Council will continue to tackle the problems associated with housing condition and choice in Greater Pollok. Development programmes already exist in Darnley (1), Arden (2), Priesthill (3), South Nitshill (4) Corkerhill (5), Dormanside (6), Bonnyholm (7) and the Brockburn Road corridor. The release of greenfield land for upper market family houses at Crookston (8), Parkhouse (9) Leverndale (10) and Deaconsbank (11) will further increase housing choice. The Nitshill area requires a comprehensive programme of investment to realise the potential for new housing and consolidate the shopping centre. A Planning Study will be prepared for the area taking account of nearby regeneration schemes in Priesthill and South Nitshill.
New Housing
JOBS
10.109 Greater Pollok has not traditionally been an area with a large industrial base. The Council, however, is safeguarding the Darnley Mains site (12) for industrial and business use. The Council is also committed to Phase 1 of the proposal to improve infrastructure in South Nitshill Industrial Estate (13). The Local Development Strategy will consider how to further improve the economic potential of the area by bringing forward comprehensive development proposals and by investigating the economic development potential of sites close to the M77.
INFRASTRUCTURE
10.110 Realising the potential of Greater Pollok requires good physical and social infrastructure in the form of shops and community facilities. The Council is re-locating Bellarmine School (14) to a fully refurbished building that was formerly Craigbank Secondary School (15). A new school at Ross Hall (16) will replace Crookston Castle and Penilee secondary schools.
New Rosshall School
10.111 Pollok Town Centre (17) serves the south-west of the City. The centre’s redevelopment and rationalisation to create high-quality new shopping and related facilities is under consideration. The aspiration is to establish Pollok Town Centre as an accessible, modern retail, leisure, and service centre. A Planning Study will be prepared for the Central Pollok area, investigating its potential and interface with adjacent areas.
10.112 The area contains three hospitals. Rationalisation of NHS Trust facilities has resulted in the contraction of Leverndale Hospital (18) and the surplus ground being developed for housing. While Cowglen Hospital (19) continues to operate to the east of the Town Centre, adjacent land offers potential for development. Rosshall Hospital (20) provides specialised private health facilities that serve the City generally. The Council recognises the importance of health-care facilities and acknowledges that rationalisation through expansion or contraction is inevitable. The Council, therefore, will support the provision of quality health services that provide modern facilities serving a local and wider catchment.
10.113 Future Public Transport Fund bids for Potential Quality Bus Corridors are being considered for Corkerhill Road/Peat Road and Crookston Road.
ENVIRONMENT
10.114 Greater Pollok is endowed with substantial areas of greenspace. As part of the Stirling Maxwell Forest Park project the Council, with a variety of partner organisations, is committed to a land renewal scheme at Darnley Mill Country Park (21) and to the creation of new greenspace at Priesthill (22). The Local Development Strategy will provide an opportunity to determine the scope for further improvements to the greenspace network and associated leisure activities such as paths and cycle routes. In particular, it will set a context for the designation of a Local Nature Reserve at Darnley Mill and the extension of the greenspace network at Haughill (23), Crookston (24) and Kempsthorn (25). The Council will work jointly with East Renfrewshire on the Dams to Darnley Mills project and with developers associated with the greenfield release sites at Deaconsbank and Parkhouse on the development of Darnley Mill Country Park.
Rosshall Hospital Darnley Mill Country Park
10.115 The Council is committed to responding to any deficit in the land supply that might emerge prior to 2006 or in the period beyond 2006. In the context of a possible requirement for additional housing land in Glasgow, a Planning Study will be undertaken to establish the development potential, environmental capacity and the opportunities to consolidate the Greenspace Network in this area.
