The areas designated ‘RESIDENTIAL’ are the City’s housing districts. In addition to housing, they include facilities such as schools, local shops, public buildings, small businesses, light industry, local community, health, social and recreational facilities and local greenspaces. In considering development proposals, the Council will seek to preserve and enhance residential amenity, particularly in respect of townscape, landscape and greenspace provision. Proposals that would result in the loss of local greenspaces (greenspace being defined as the uses specified in Policy DEV 11: Green Space) will be considered against the criteria set out in policy ENV 2: Development Related to Greenspace. Development proposals unable to meet the Council’s townscape, landscape and greenspace criteria will be resisted.
GREENFIELD RELEASE SITES
The Council has identified sites at Broomhouse, Crookston, Deaconsbank, Drumchapel, Easterhouse, Leverndale, Parkhouse, Robroyston and Summerston that have the potential for the development of houses principally for the upper market. The sites will be released on the proviso that:
(i) development meets the criteria for greenfield sites set out in policy RES 2: Residential Site Layouts and other relevant policies of the Plan; and
(ii) part of the Council’s four yearly review of the City Plan will include an assessment of the progress made on each of these sites. Any that have not benefited from a planning consent will be scrutinised and their retention as part of the pre-2006 greenfield release will be reassessed.
GARTLOCH HOSPITAL
Within this area, the Council will promote the development of high quality housing. The listed buildings shall be retained and the landscape appearance of the area (including the woodland) maintained through:
(i) the conversion of the former hospital buildings (subject to the possible demolition of the less important architectural elements) principally for housing or related uses (hotel, residential or non-residential institutional use, and/or appropriate leisure uses);
(ii) the redevelopment of the sites of the unlisted buildings for the above uses; and
(iii) development within the curtilage of the hospital, for these uses specified in (i) above, is required to subsidise the conversion of the listed buildings, provide appropriate infrastructure, and enhance the listed buildings and their setting in the landscape. This will be on the proviso that the following features are retained and protected: Gartloch Hospital Woodland Site of Importance for Nature Conservation, woodland protected by Tree Preservation Orders; the Historic Garden of the former Gartloch House; and the setting of Bishop Loch Site of Special Scientific Interest.
The development of any part of the Gartloch area will require to be in accordance with a masterplan for the whole area, submitted to, and approved by, the Council. The masterplan will require to set out access arrangements, service provision, means of protection and management of the listed buildings together with protection and management of the landscape. Any new development, or redevelopment, will require to coincide with a phased re-occupation of the listed buildings. Should the retention of the listed buildings within any redevelopment proposals prove impractical, for whatever reasons, be it fire damage, vandalism or general neglect, the area designated Residential at Gartloch will revert to Green Belt.