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Search the Public Notice PortalA Glasgow MSP has objected to plans to turn a former care home into co-living flats in the east end.
A planning application was submitted for the Alexandra Court building on Edinburgh Road in Carntyne.
Paul Sweeney, Glasgow Labour MSP, has made a formal objection on the grounds it is an “inappropriate development within a suburban residential neighbourhood.”
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He said the plans for the care home, which closed in 2018, into 58 studio flats, would have a “detrimental impact” on the local area.
Sweeney said the proposal is contrary to the Glasgow City Development Plan.
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The latest application states it is for workers at BAE’s Govan and Scotstoun shipyards but the application has not been submitted by the company nor is it aware of any plans.
The MSP said he has contacted the BAE Systems management and he said they have “confirmed that they are unaware of any arrangement or requirement for housing shipyard contractors at this proposed accommodation, which is a considerable distance from their sites at Govan and Scotstoun shipyards”.
Sweeney said he believes the application is “unsubstantiated and speculative”.
He added: “no evidence of an accommodation contract or even an agreement in principle with BAE systems or any of its subcontractors has been presented in support of the application.”
The MSP said: Such a development is ill-suited to this suburban location and risks eroding community cohesion.”
He added: “The intensive, communal nature of co-living with potentially high occupancy and turnover of temporary residents, would not integrate well with the existing low-rise, family housing and is likely to cause adverse impacts on neighbouring properties in terms of privacy, noise and general disturbance.”
The MSP the application should be refused and instead said it should be used wither as a care home or permanent flats for sale or social or mid-market rent.
He said demolition should also be considered to make way for a new residential development.
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