THE developer behind a scheme to build more than 400 homes on the site of the former Victoria Infirmary has submitted updated plans.

Sanctuary Homes received permission to erect 413 flats, offices and retail space on Langside Road in May 2018.

Now, the company has bid to make "minor" changes to some of the approved conditions for the former hospital site.

It says the amendments will "improve the quality" of the development to the "advantage of future residents".

"Since the time of the original consent for the Victoria site and via the establishment of contracts to carry out the various phases of the job, it became clear that a number of minor variations were required to the consented plans," a letter to the council from McInally Associates, Sanctuary Homes' agent, states.

"In all regards it is submitted that the minor amendments now proposed have become necessary as a result of issues relative to economic viability, amenity space and privacy concerns in relation to the deck areas."

READ MORE: Council criticised for failure to support community during Victoria Infirmary development

Some blocks will be redesigned or removed under the updated plans and there would be changes to car parking and landscaping. An earlier application for minor changes was approved in September.

The site was vacated in 2015 when the remaining services moved to the New Victoria Hospital, which opened in 2009, and Queen Elizabeth University Hospital. The infirmary, built in 1888, was designed by architects Campbell, Douglas and Sellars.

Sanctuary plans to retain the hospital's Nightingale Pavilions and introduce public realm areas, which include an improved pedestrian route through the site to Queen's Park.

More than 100 of the properties are planned for affordable housing.

READ MORE: Bid to save Glasgow Mount Florida bowling club as housing plans submitted

"Our plans for the former Victoria Infirmary site demonstrate Sanctuary’s continued commitment to Glasgow and will see us invest many millions of pounds in the city," the company's group director Peter Martin said when the original planning permission was granted. "This project will offer affordable homes plus jobs and training opportunities for young people."

Glasgow City Council has yet to make a decision on the updated application.